https://borgenproject.org/reducing-food-waste-feeding-hungry/
The article talks about world hunger problems and how solutions can be made. Corina Balsamo, the writer of the article, states that world hunger is viscous cycle where people are malnourished, meaning they lack essential vitamins or calories. Malnutrition affects many developing countries, such as Sub-Saharan Africa, parts of Asia and Latin America. These countries are in poverty and they lack the access to funds or resources in order to grow food. Along with poverty, harmful economic systems, conflict, and climate change also contribute to world hunger. And the people that are at most risk for hunger are children. Children who are malnourished contribute to five million deaths per year and have been the cause of diseases like malaria and measles. This creates a cycle where people are stuck and require aid from other countries.
So the solution? Many of them are simpler than we think. One of the biggest problems along hunger is food waste. By reducing food waste or find ways to utilize it to our advantages, we can help world hunger. For example, an unnecessary waste of foods is the practice of throwing away “ugly” or “unwanted” fruits and vegetables. Perfectly edible foods are being tossed because of the different shape they have compared to the “normal” apples or bananas. Instead of throwing them out, a solution would be to not waste them, give it to the malnourished countries, or charities that can then pass it along to them. Another solution to help reduce food waste is to use leftovers. Individuals can help, by buying food that they only need and keeping the leftovers to eat for another day. This doesn’t mean to never go out to eat again, but rather being more cautious with food is the simplest solution we can all do.
I agree. About half of the food in my house has to get thrown out because we waited too long to use it. Also, there probably needs to be some kind of public education campaign before abnormal-looking edible foods could even be considered sellable, since the public is so used to how their food looks like and would just think that the stores are trying to sell them rotten food.
ReplyDeleteThis topic hits close to home because my parents came from a country where many people do die from starvation and people here just take food for granted sometimes. I don't really see a point in restaurants throwing away all of their leftovers because they can be helping people in need.
ReplyDeleteI'm still shocked with how much we waste food on a daily basis when not wasting it is so easy to do. It is a good idea to send those "imperfect" fruits and vegetables to unfortunate countries.
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