why wasting food offends us

usinging leftover food in an imaginative and nutritious way seems like an obvious good. Nobody likes to throw away usable scraps, unless you’re a nouveau riche Roman or a Tudor lord, and then it becomes part of a larger social theater, a way of expressing your high status. However, most of us were raised to believe that wasting food is a moral failing, an undeserved chance thrown away in the face of millions of people around the world for whom hunger is a daily fear. Yet when it comes to actually taking action – dealing with foods that have passed their official expiration date – you could be forgiven for finding that your good intentions fade. Who honestly has time