A question about wasting food.

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At social gatherings, whether they be school, work or spirituality related, I'm often faced with this problem. There's always a lot of food and some of the food's "Halalness" is questionable. Yet at the same time, I feel so bad about throwing it away. For example: Pizza. It's at every social gathering I can think of, including the youth group meetings at my mosque. I'm skeptical of pizza because cheese requires enzymes to culture the milk and produce it, but those enzymes could be from any number of animals killed in a haram fashion. If I eat it, I feel guilty about eating something haram. If I don't eat it and let it be thrown away, I feel guilty about wasting food (another sin). So what should I do?

I pose this question because last week I read an article online about a UN report that states 1/3 of the food produced in the world goes to waste. Simultaneously, 1/7 of the world's population faces chronic starvation.
 
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