landfills, virtual water

I read in a magazine that the third biggest element of landfills is wasted food.

That's first of all ridiculous because there are people starving while food is rotting away in landfills. That's second of all ridiculous because food has a high virtual water content (ie water that goes into producing it), and we're going to run out of fresh water unless we reallocate resources.

It would also help if people in affluent countries quit eating so much meat, or became largely vegetarian (plug for vegetarianism). It seems inevitable that our world will run out of resources. But at least we can try to make it less painless for the people that are alive right now.

Anyway, landfills should *not* contain so much food. Don't waste food! I'm a college student. This is ingrained in my neocortex.