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Monday, March 20, 2017
Wasting Food
For my essay question I was inspired by a TED talk by Tristram Stuart, in which he brings up this big issue that many places now waste a lot of food - especially the United States. Basically, he made me want to explore the question of what we could do to alleviate this problem. However, problems need to be taken care of at their source of origin and so I have to discover the number of ways in which we waste food so as to prevent that from happening again. Through reading a good number of articles, I have discovered that there are many ways that we let food go to waste. Ironically, we make too much of some products, yet we still have starving stomachs in our country, and since we're the most fed country, that can only mean worse for others. One of the reasons some of the produce or crops that are grown do not make it to supermarkets, is because of their shape because apparently we, humans, are too shallow and picky to even eat the slightest deformed potato. Another way in which we encourage this problem to get worse is by buying a lot of something and not even getting around to eating it all. All of these things I have discovered are perfect for my essay, I believe. I just have to follow a fellow peer's advice and add a bit of statistical evidence - something mathematical to prove and further strengthen my point. What solutions are there to decrease the amount of food that goes to waste?
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Mily! I'm also doing the topic of food waste and found some more solutions that might be helpful. One way for anyone to reduce food waste is by buying foods that you only need. That way, there would be as much spoiled or leftover produces that you don't want. On the problem of world hunger, there's the option of donating the food to charities or organizations that can use them.
ReplyDeleteAlso, here's a great link if you need stats :-)
https://www.ifama.org/resources/files/2013-Symposium/TFox.pdf
This topic is so controversal, I don't understand why all company's cant donate their left over food from the day to homeless shelters. There are way too many hungry people in this world and knowing that all this food is being wasted and not given to these people is ridiculous. I agree with Justin's idea to get the amount of food they need especially if not willing to share.
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ReplyDeleteHey Mil Mil! I remember a guy talking about the amount of end slices of bread that gets wasted because many people don't want to eat the end slice. I think just eating every last bit of a product before buying another would be less wasteful, such as getting the last few scrapes of peanut butter from the jar.
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