Comment: I get that this is an opinion article, but I prefer pieces that take a more balanced view.

It’s unlikely that anyone but a fool ever maintained that curbing food waste by redistributing edible but rejected food to the hungry had the potential to end poverty.  It can’t.

But the poor need to be fed, and using what would otherwise be wasted is far from a new concept.  Many urban poor and not-so-poor have taken matters into their own hands by dumpster diving.  

No, we won’t end poverty by curtailing food waste, but feeding people and reducing landfill is far from a bad idea.