[bambax]

$1.45 per person x day is not a "small" amount; for a family of four it's $174 per month: twice or thrice the price of a typical Internet subscription which everyone finds expensive...

But of course what the article doesn't say is where this waste happens: in the home or in food-processing plants, or as unsold inventory in supermarkets, etc.

[batista]

Even 500 dollars a year ($1.45 for one person) income puts you in the "top 80%" of the world, which means there's a billion people that make LESS than that.

$1,000 a year puts you in the 50% of the world per income.

http://www.globalrichlist.com/

(It seemed too small to me too, until I visited places were people earn $1 a day, like Cambodia -- that is, less than $500 per year).