Summary Of Food Foolish

Food Foolish: The Hidden Connection between Food Waste, Hunger and Climate Change, is about Mandyck and Shultz taking on the challenge to inform the readers about what the world is losing and wasting from the food supply chain each year. The authors produce a picture in your head about how major the loss of food actually is, “Imagine purchasing three bags of groceries. While driving home, toss half of one bag of food onto the road. That represents the loss that occurs during harvest, processing and distribution. Arrive home and immediately toss the other half of the bag into the trash. That’s the waste experienced by retailers and consumers. Buy three, get two: welcome to our food system.” (Mandyck, Schultz, 2015, p.3) The authors also help

Food waste is the food that makes it to the market but is never eaten. The authors argue that these problems are solvable. If we took a fraction of money to increase agricultural yields and spend it instead on infrastructure to move food to the markets, with this we would achieve the global food and nutrition security a lot sooner. As a result, this would provide a greater financial security and environmental sustainability, according to the authors. The supply chain is extremely important to the cause, the more efficient it is it implies that food will be kept protected and cold until the food is processed and consumed. According to the authors, what keeps food from perishing is the cold air, and that brings us to the cold chain, a tool that includes marine container refrigeration, truck and trailer refrigeration, warehouse and food retail refrigeration and millions of home refrigerators. The problem is solvable but that doesn’t mean simple, but there are many benefits with good meals and nutrition. The main ways the authors provide to start to solve this problem would be, to make food more affordable, make the food more available to all, and the food must be

The major points that the authors make in regards to this would be about the hunger today, in the world around us and the challenges faced by poor and developing countries to feed their people. The authors describe that not only are there people that have no food and are malnutrition in developing countries, there are people who are suffering from this in developed countries also. “The Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that there are 14.6 million chronically hungry people in developed regions of the globe.” (Mandyck, Schultz, 2015, pp.10) The cold chain is also a point that the authors make, describing to the reader how there are many perishable foods that can spoil quickly, therefore these foods need to be transported by cold chain. “In parts of the world where the cold chain is established perishable food loss can be maintained as low as 2%.” (Mandyck, Schultz, 2015, pp.38) The relation between food waste and climate change is a big part of the author’s ideas, the authors believe that everyone is missing the connection between food waste and climate change. According to the authors it’s methane and nitrous oxide that have the greatest impact on the environment. Methane is found in the belching and flatulence produced by animals, it is also formed when food degrades in a land field. Nitrous oxide is used as fertilizer and is