Love Food Hate Waste: Can Malaysia be a gastro-sustainable capital?

Take all you want, but eat all you take. Photo: The Star

This month (September), the UN released the latest statistics on world hunger. Despite the march of human progress, the number of hungry people continues to rise – it is now over 815 million. In real terms, that means one in every nine people do not have enough food, and millions of them will die of malnutrition.

This is unacceptable when we know the volume of surplus or lost food produced is actually enough to feed every hungry person four times over. It’s not just countries in Africa or the Indian subcontinent – Malaysia, too, has many people suffering from lack of food.