Yes, it is a reality, but your tone is alarmist. The facts are stretched to almost hyperbolic extremes. All producers try to minimize waste. Waste hurts profits. No store wants food to rot on displays. No farmer wants their product to rot in the field or in storage. No restaurant wants to waste food. Your story will not get them to work harder to reduce waste, they are already trying very hard to reduce waste. I guess you are suggesting that maybe home cooks reduce waste. I do think that might be someplace for improvement.

If that was your point, you should state it up front. Actually, you should state you premise, point or objective up front, make you case in the body of the message and then summarize at the end.

My mother used to use the "people are starving in Africa" to get me to eat the canned peas I could not stand or the squash she made I did not like, even threats like going to bed without desert did not work. I like frozen peas cooked right and I like certain squash. Yes, you can reduce food waste in the home. It requires planning and intelligence. Most people do not put much effort into meal planning. 30 years ago, I did a fair amount of meal planning and preparation for my family (today, I only have myself and nothing goes to waste). My wife was totally on board with not wasting food. We had nutritious meals that got eaten (never tried to force kids to eat food they did not like) and leftovers got eaten as well. Very little went to waste, we bought what we needed for the planned meals, made them, ate them, that was that. The thing that really cut down on the waste was, I ate the leftovers as my lunches at work, that is if there were leftovers. We actually planned for a certain amount of leftovers so that I would have lunches for work and well, if no leftovers because someone ate them at dinner time, I got something else for lunch.

TEK