TIL: We Waste One-Third of Food Worldwide | Today I Learned
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- Опубликовано: 22 фев 2016
- When you were a kid, your mom probably made you stay at the dinner table until you finished your peas. Most of us eventually gave in, swallowing the evil little green bits like pills with milk. It was torture at the time, but mom had the right idea-and not just because peas are good for you.
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About a third of our planet’s food goes to waste. That’s enough food to feed the nearly 800 million people going hungry and then some. Household and grocery waste are two of the biggest reasons for the problem. However, one of the biggest culprits is the casting off of so-called “ugly” foods.
At your local market, perfectly formed, beautifully colored fruits and vegetables surround shoppers. Sure, they exist, but these foods are the supermodels of the agricultural world. Most fruits and vegetables come in a variety of shapes and sizes, which are cosmetically far removed from what you find on grocery shelves. As a result of our expectations, perfectly good food regularly goes to waste.
In this week’s Today I Learned, National Geographic explorer Tristram Stuart elaborates on the many ways perfectly good food goes to waste. To learn more about the problem check out the March 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine: www.nationalgeographic.com/mag...
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I am 76. My grandparents and my parents always considered that throwing food away was unworthy of a human being.
This is insane. So much food goes to waste. Our organization is also raising awareness about this concept, mainly on our Instagram. Thanks for raising awareness about this!
-Your friends at Project Green
1) Forbid supermarkets from throwing out food to waste bin (sell it through an app after closing hours, the ones who can afford will not wait 9pm to get food)
2) Ikea & Co should put their best designers at work to design cool looking / functioning (odor, where it goes) bio recycling boxes for home (mine is super ugly and rarely use it)
3) Internet should enable us order the food straight from the local farmer and get it delivered by a high schooler making some extra cash with deliveries between farm - fridge
4) Sharing economy should also expand to homemade food, if a family of four makes 2 extra portions they should be allowed to easily sell it to a nearby student for example (app to take care of the payment / connecting the users)
Walmart gives the food they 'waste' to the local food bank 9 times out of ten. Plenty of stuff (usually produce) gets trashed too, but it usually goes to the compost bin first, and the compost is re purposed (read sold) at a later time. Although, I was quite miffed driving by a melon farm last fall with stuff rotting on the vine because it didn't get big enough for market. The farmer wouldn't even sell them to me because he had a contract. It was like 2 acres of watermelon and cantaloupe doing nothing.
What about the food that big agribusiness wastes on overfeeding animals that could feed the one billion starving men, women and children around the world?
My local grocery store sell the groceries that is nearing it's expiring date at half the price, and they use the "ugly" fruits in their storemade foods or pack them in certain packages and sell them cheaper. Best of all, people buy it, so it's less foodwaste. :D
We grow over a third of our food right in our front yard...GROW FOOD NOT LAWNS!!!!
Sharing, Justice and Peace for all.
This is so wierd in my school we learned about 1/3 of food bieng wasted too
Someone shoudl tag how to basic guy
+gianni ravina so fuc*king true
That happens while the other side of the world starves to death. just insane!
Till now from my childhood, I have eaten nearly only Organic Food but now I am away from home and year after have to join the company I don't like this tasteless food that people used to serve here. but I can't live my whole life in my hometown I guess now I should adapt to this type life and food.
I don't get what people mean when they say that scars on fruit don't taste any different when it objectively does. Because even if the scars don't give a different flavour, it still gives a different texture and moisture to the fruit, which makes it taste different.
I use to pick apples when i was younger scars, blemishes or even sun burns don't actually change the taste of the fruit. Even so the company made us throw all them away because they say buyers won't buy them.
People used to dumpster dive grocery stores dumpsters but more often, they police the dumpster or even lock them so divers can't grab food.
+525Lines I found out it's illegal in some countries now how bads that a starving person can't take food that will just rot, me I find it appauling
And there are still some people blaming God for world poverty and hunger, while there are more than enough food in the world.
If an orange is blemished and there is less of a market for it as a complete orange, then it is likely sent to be made into orange juice. I'm sure this approach is used for many fruits and vegtables.
Food waste should also be fed to animals or used as compost.
until u can eat food in a quantized ammount something wil always be spilled
yah please
The food waste can literally go to starving people. Oh wells.
Of course 1/3 of the food is wasted... Just look in your garbage can
+Too Many Lemons I think they mean part of the wasters is the stores that reject imperfect looking produce.
reject my ass. i went to the supermarket and every single fucking tomato in one section had holes in them.
We never waste food.
bc it's illegal for producers to give away the rejected foods. John Oliver already did a segment on this.
Why is that?
+rickiex Dutch supermarkets are going to be forced to give it away, to homeless people and people who need it. IDK if its happning already, but that' s certainly the plan.
+Fedde Alkema French supermarkets are already forced to do so, luckily.
someone tag how to basic guy
Thanks howtobasic
We can feed the US with the food that is wasted
is it really wasted though?
Benjamin Moss Yes you daft dog.
how?
Benjamin Moss...When there are billions other human beings are starving and could have benefited instead to these food before they become inedible and not good for human consumption...YES that food is wasted
my guess is that a majority of food that gets thrown away is produce. but its not really wasted, anymore than taking a long shower wastes water. the food, just like the water, returns to the earth for nutrients. is it a waste when a tree dies and falls over in a forest?
but yes, that is unfortunate that the world has starving people. However, i think it has less to do with how much i throw away, and more to do with corruption.
Benjamin Moss...tell me how do one recover the money and energy of people who plant, maintains, harvest, wash, package, transport those produced if human beings don't get to be the first benefactor of these commodities or earth's bounty. To think that food is not really wasted because it can be composted and go back to the land is wrong. We should all learn to see the value of an apple beyond it's color and shape, but everything involves before it ends up in our mouth, because there is more to an apple than there really is.
Our grandparents always tells us growing up..."don't waste food, every single bit of those rice you leave on your plate cries, because before it can nourish our body it has to go through a lot in its journey, they have to be planted in mud, let under the heat of the sun, they then have to wait before they get harvested, then they need to be pounded so it's shaft can be removed. Then it has to go through getting boiled for it to be cooked, put on your plate and the end of its journey is inside your body." My grandma would continue...think about that single rice's journey, how can in our good conscience allow their last stop be in the garbage bin, when it was meant to be for you and me?"
Go and ask producers, do not play your monetizing tricks with consumers.
not good :(
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half of this talk is pure stupidity, or perhaps it is because the food wastes he talked about only happens in the US.
First of all, of course he has the guts to start demanding businesses to stop wasting food, because he is definitely going to buy those oddly looking veggie and fruits from the basket. Yes.
Does he even know what caused businesses to pick those out anyway.
And even if they do get picked out... so what... those fruits and vegetables are usually used to make something else that doesn't need to present itself in a whole.
People just don't know what kind of fruits and vegetables that goes into their juice, canned food or what kind of egg that went into their cake.
In my country, rejected fruits and vegetables are used to feed farm animals too.
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