ABSTRACT
In light of Big Food's upstream dominance of the food system it is well to ask how corporate food waste shapes the argument about surplus food redistribution. Little wonder that food waste has become a powerful driver of surplus food redistribution with Big Food's championing of charitable food banking as a frontline strategy for reducing both food waste and food poverty, two issues seemingly joined at the hip. Within the US and Europe the environmentally driven food waste argument promoting surplus food as a response to rich world hunger has gathered food industry momentum. Meanwhile in Canada food waste is close to 40% of all food produced, of which half is said to be from consumers. A more 2016 study of EU food waste reported nearly 88 million tonnes of food being discarded in the EU-28, or 20% of all food produced.
