Main topic: Water, food and agriculture
Immersionquastion:
What are the issues about waste of food and what can we do to eradicate the food waste?
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Source list
What I think about waste of food
What are the issues and what can we do to prevent the waste
The scale of the waste of food situations.
Compared to the waste in Denmark?
The consequences?
What can we do to help?
Possible solutions
Conclusion
Waste of food sources
http://ec.europa.eu/food/safety/food_waste/index_en.htm
http://www.unep.org/wed/2013/quickfacts/
http://www.treehugger.com/greenfood/theimpactoffoodwasteonclimatechangeandjust abouteverythingelse.html
http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/08/23/foodwastecauseslossesthroughoutthe
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Honestly I think waste of food is one of the worlds greatest problems, First I thought it was okay, because there was enough food, so you could throw away the food you did not like. But if you look around there are waste of food everywhere, and that is a problem because there are starving people all over the world. I think we should spread the food better so it actually could be eaten instead of thrown out. I started wondering about it for a little while ago. I was started on this continuation school and we always have a great big menu there are something everybody likes. But I fast came to my …show more content…

Camilla Mangor water food and agriculture
What are the issues about waste of food and how can we prevent the waste of food?
“Over 100 million tonnes of food are wasted annually in the EU (in 2014, and If nothing is done, food waste is expected to rise to about 126 million tonnes by 2020.”Source http://ec.europa.eu
Reasons to food waste:
1) Food is wasted because well some people can, for them food is cheap it might only take out a tiny part of their budget!
2) Because we care about looks, we have expectations to the way our food looks.
3) We are raised with the opportunity for selecting the foods we want to eat.
The scale of the waste of food situations. Every year, consumers in industrialized countries like U.S.A and France waste almost as much food as the entire net food production of subSaharan Africa (222 million vs. 230 million tons). The amount of food lost and wasted every year is equal to more than half of the world’s annual cereals crops (2.3 billion tons in 2009/10). That is a huge problem when so many people are starving every day. More exactly 805 million humans are starving every day. The world ́s population (7,300,000,000) divided by the number of starving people
The first step in achieving food security is to maximise the use of food already being produced and to minimise its waste. The FAO (2013) estimates that 1.3 billion tonnes
As Americans, we waste more food than many countries even consume. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, “The average American trashes 10 times as much food as a consumer in South east Asia” (Hsu). That is about equivalent to eating 10 meals to a consumer in South East Asia’s one meal. We throw away our left over food just because we are done ea...
Today, in common culture, people expect their food right when they want it. Food takes time. It takes time to grow, in a paper by Steve Sexton called “The Inefficiency of Local Food” he claims that Idaho produces 30 percent of the countries potatoes. These potatoes take time to grow. They cannot just be magically grown. They need water, sunlight, and rich soil. People tend to forget this when thinking about their favorite foods. All they can think of is devouring these delectable foods. These foods also
The world hunger is the deadliest disease in the world today, despite the fact that there is more food on earth, but fewer people cannot have access to this food, or even get the opportunity to grow some due to poverty, or lack of good soil to grow crops. World hunger is caused when natural resources become destroyed by earthquakes, or civil war. Another reason is drought and flooding. World hunger is also an issue in undeveloped countries because of political corruption, poverty, environmental issues, overpopulation, economics, and pestilence. It is sad to see people dying from malnutrition, and starvation every second. While we that have it doesn’t seem to appreciate it but waste it instead of helping those that in need of it. As you can see this a real problem, as debated in my visual
American Wasteland by Jonathan Bloom is a great book where he has been researching about food waste and providing us with facts about this big issue. Bloom’s tone is very optimistic, he knows that is not too late to change our minds while giving us information on who’s to blame for this waste, How have we come to produce so much excess food, what are the solutions to stop wasting nearly 50% of available food. There is many great points found in this book such as food insecurity, redistribution and cultural shift.
Nutrition. Eating is a very simple and basic thing in our daily life, but today, we are facing a complex
According to Roni Neff, Marie Spiker, and Patricia Truant, up to 40% of all food produced in America is thrown away (Neff, Spiker, & Truant, 2015, p.2). This wasted food is worth hundreds of billions of dollars that is lost each year in the United States alone, and creates many threats to our country. Food waste is an important and widespread issue in the United States because most of the food thrown away is perfectly fine, it could be used to feed the hungry, and the waste hurts the environment.
Though many will see this as only having an affect on Americans, this wastefulness affects everyone on a global scale. Samuel Blackstone wrote the article Waste management: Food waste is a massive global problem, but the solution starts with your Thanksgiving leftovers in 2016 which states “food that is grown but ultimately wasted occupies 1.4 billion hectares of land, representing 30 percent of the world’s entire agricultural land area.”. We may not cause all the worlds food waste, but the waste that we do cause needs to be
The majority of people waste food on a daily basis. In fact, in the U.S. alone there is an estimate that over half of the food produced goes uneaten; meanwhile there are people who are in need of food, and it ultimately goes to waste (Dockterman). For example, in his essay, “On Dumpster Diving,” author Lars Eighner writes about his experiences of dumpster diving with his pet dog, during his years of homelessness. According to Eighner, much of the food and materials he came across in the dumpsters were in usable shape, and many items were new. Clearly there needs to be a change in American food waste, in current and, hopefully not so much in, future generations.
There are many problems confronting our global food system. One of them is that the food is not distributed fairly or evenly in the world. According “The Last Bite Is The World’s Food System Collapsing?” by Bee Wilson, “we are producing more food—more grain, more meat, more fruits and vegetables—than ever before, more cheaply than ever before” (Wilson, 2008). Here we are, producing more and more affordable food. However, the World Bank recently announced that thirty-three countries are still famine and hungers as the food price are climbing. Wilson stated, “despite the current food crisis, last year’s worldwide grain harvest was colossal, five per cent above the previous year’s” (Wilson, 2008). This statement support that the food is not distributed evenly. The food production actually increased but people are still in hunger and malnutrition. If the food were evenly distributed, this famine problem would’ve been not a problem. Wilson added, “the food economy has created a system in w...
that must be eliminated by every possible means. That being said, food security has a direct
Americans waste tons of food everyday, even though they may not realize it. Food wastage is a huge issue in America and in many other countries in the world. Not only is food wastage a problem, but it keeps growing. The percentage has grown each year and every year, it has been estimated that more than one third of what the world produces is being wasted. In Americans are throwing away too much uneaten food, a study warns, A student helps Americans fight food waste one click at a time,” and Food wastage footprint all show why food wastage is a problem all around the world.
I have chosen the topic of food waste and the impact on the environment. I will discuss the ridiculous amount of food that is wasted each year and the staggering amount of waste that could be avoided just by planning ahead, and purchasing from farmer’s markets and avoiding the main stream supermarkets who set such high standards on the aesthetic of produce that tonnes are wasted for no reason other then shape.
Food waste is the biggest space consumer in our landfills, which may seem surprising, but shouldn’t be based on the amount of food that is consumed on a daily basis and the large proportion of food that is wasted. The main problem with the amount of food waste in landfills, is that it produces methane as it decomposes which is detrimental to the atmosphere as a whole, and can have lasting effects. The buildup of all the methane produced results in huge amounts of global warming potential which is extremely detrimental to our environment. Also, because of the fact that so many resources are used in order to grow certain foods, they are all being put to waste when the food that used these resources goes directly to landfills. This applies to water usage, soil richness, and petroleum usage. As far as costs go, food waste affects the economy by about $750 billion a year, which is a massive amount of money that could be going elsewhere. Because we are losing so much money, it is clear that there is a great need for change in the food system, especially in the United
...veryday foods require a lot of energy and release a lot of greenhouse gases to produce. This is the reason we should stop wasting the foods, consume less meat, and eat more locally grown food.