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Tristram Stuart was born in 1977 and grew up in Sussex where he reared pigs and chickens on bakery left-overs and his school canteen’s food waste. After graduating from Cambridge University with a first class degree, Tristram worked on agricultural renovation and emergency shelter programmes in Kosovo following the NATO bombardment, and then for the Centre for Science and Environment in New Delhi where he wrote for the magazine, Down to Earth, and for Indian newspapers and reviews.
His internationally acclaimed first book, The Bloodless Revolution, published in 2006, was a history of vegetarianism, showing how revolutionary vegetarians from the 1600s and 1700s kick-started the movement that would now be called environmentalism.
Using a combination of historical insight and front-line investigation into modern food production, he makes regular contributions to television documentaries, radio and newspaper debates on the social and environmental aspects of food. He lives in Sussex where he raises pigs, chickens and bees.
For the past ten years, he has reclaimed most of his food from the bins of supermarkets and other shops as a protest against the scale and gratuitous causes of food waste. His new book, Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal (Penguin, 2009), reveals that modern Western countries waste more food than they consume, and that tackling this problem is one of the simplest ways of reducing pressure on the environment and on global food supplies.
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