— Born to be Wasted — 

All food waste is not equally wasteful. The type of food that is wasted has a big influence on the amount of negative environmental impacts associated with that waste. 

While less meat gets wasted than does fruit and vegetables, the amount of energy required to produce meat is "significantly" more than that for plant-based food production. That means that the associated greenhouse gas emissions from meat production is also much higher. So wasting meat has a much greater negative environmental impact. 

Wasted food has a lot of other embodied waste associated with it, such as the water and energy inputs necessary to produce it. As you can see from the chart meat and dairy products (particularly beef) are inherently more wasteful than wasted fruit and vegetables. 

And the saddest thing is, considering the horror show that most factory farms are, we are putting these animals through unthinkable amounts of stress and suffering just to be tossed in the garbage. All of those living creatures born to be wasted...