Your Halloween candy faves come with environmental costs (Futurity)

Futurity published a blog post that discussed candies. Halloween. Valentine’s Day. Easter. Throughout the year, US stores are stocked with rotating chocolates, gummies, and hard candies. These periods of mass candy production and consumption have a profound effect on the supply chain, yet candy consumption is often absent from conversations about food systems. IFPRI defines “food systems” as “the sum of actors and interactions along the food value chain—from input supply and production of crops, livestock, fish, and other agricultural commodities to transportation, processing, retailing, wholesaling, and preparation of foods to consumption and disposal.” Republished in Germanic News (Germany), Fuentitech (India), PhysOrg.