Food Wastage

Thèmes abordés

Food wastage, malnutrition, Africa, Asia, Europe, consumption, society

Résumé du document

"Every day, we have breakfast, lunch, snacks whenever we want, and dinner without even realizing how lucky we are."

Extraits

[...] And next time you don't know what to do with all the leftovers you have in your fridge, and you know you'll have to throw them away by tomorrow, just go round the corner and invite the homeless person you see everyday when you go to school or to work and you don't even pay attention to him anymore, and invite him (or her) at your table. Because if we go on wasting food and behave like selfish monsters, then we can really wonder about the future of humanity. [...]

[...] We don't even pay attention to the food we throw away when we feel full. But let's think about this : today, one third of the food produced on earth is wasted. In Africa or Asia, food wastage represents between six and eleven kilos per person every year. But In Europe and North America, this figure raises to an average of one hundred and five kilos With all the food wasted every year, we could feed one billion people, which represents all the population suffering from malnutrition on earth? [...]