The pretty displays of food are essentially a rounding error. The majority of food waste is caused through 1. crop spoilage, 2. supply chain inefficiency, 3. consumer overbuying.
If you ignore societies where there was starvation, you will always see that there is significant food waste. You mention capitalism as being a big cause of food waste, but millions of tons were also wasted in communist countries for reasons 1 and 2 above.
The pretty displays of food are essentially a rounding error. The majority of food waste is caused through 1. crop spoilage, 2. supply chain inefficiency, 3. consumer overbuying.
If you ignore societies where there was starvation, you will always see that there is significant food waste. You mention capitalism as being a big cause of food waste, but millions of tons were also wasted in communist countries for reasons 1 and 2 above.