The Unsustainable Consequence for Our Planet of Food Wastes

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Food waste is a very huge global problem both to the food security of the planet and even to the environment. It has negative effects on biodiversity, wastage of earth's fertile land, increased carbon footprints and acceleration of climatic change. Scientists have suggested different ways to help to address the issue. The methods include improving the harvesting methods, the changing of the way the foods are processed, encouraging food balance with demand and food recycling. The traditional harvesting methods used to encourage a lot of food waste in the farms but now researchers are coming up with better harvesting methods.

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[...] They also feel that the seller of the products is a genuine seller. This, however, will lead to food waste because at the end of the day customers will still buy the same amount of food due to their limitation in their income level (Stancu, Violeta&Liisa, 79). Also, if the supermarkets and the wholesalers are able to manage to convince customers to buy excess of what they need, the food will eventually go to waste back in their homes and at the end of the day, they will be forced to throw it away. [...]

[...] revealed that mistakes in industrial processing and complying with food policies is also another reason as to why there have been unsustainable consequences of food waste. There are always the food safety procedures and standards which do not allow errors in industrial processing or any other compromise that lowers the quality of the final foodstuff. Failure to meet the standards or the occurrence of certain errors at the processing stage of food products in the industry would mean that all that foodstuff will be wasted no matter the quantity (Schanes et al, 69). [...]

[...] This over merchandising of food items and products in supermarkets and retail shops many times results in food waste and as a result, increasing the consequences of negative effects that come about with food waste. Over merchandising in supermarkets always results from the tendency to create the idea and the impression that there is abundant food in an attempt to promote sales and increase customer satisfaction. Supermarkets and food stores achieve this by using nice displays to show they have a lot of foodstuffs. [...]

[...] At the end of the day, it is wasted because no one would like to eat foods that do not taste great. II. Purchasing and Preparation of Too Much Food According to Gaiani et al. another reason is the buying and preparation of excess food. Food is mostly wasted because it is excess and this has greatly affected the ability of the government to reduce food waste and its consequences. If one buys excess food, which the majority of the people in the country do, it is going to automatically go to waste. [...]

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