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Half of World’s Food Waste will affect Future Generation
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 19:50
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Most people do not aware that we will be running out of food, fresh water, fuel and mineral resource in the coming generation. As human population continues to grow, which exceeded 7 billion in the world currently, more forest and agriculture as well as farming land are cleared in order to build more houses, commercial buildings and factories due to the demand of rising population. As such, fresh water becomes scare and polluted since all kinds of garbage like, household, sewerage and toxic chemical disposal from construction sites, factories, buildings and houses are dumped into river. To learn more about World Without Water, please watch the documentary produced by Vanguard
Food waste is a world wide phenomenon in many developed countries. It has become a huge crisis for every developed nation as the government is looking at alternative solution to dispose the huge amount of food wastage into landfills every day. As humans become affluent, we turn ourselves into greedy shoppers who are attracted to buying promotional food in a big quantities, knowing that some food will be thrown away when the food can’t be finished consuming, before the expiry date. There are many consumers who concern more on “cosmetic” selection while shopping for food in the supermarkets. Thus, at least 30-50 percent of edible food which doesn’t meet the quality and “cosmetic” criteria in terms of colour, size, shape and appearance will be thrown away from homes, supermarkets and food operators. Apart from that, many of food eaters tend to order a lot of food until it’s over our limit of food consumption. As such most of leftover food is ended throwing away into the bins. According to the study by the London based Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the world produces about four billion metric tons of food a year but 1.2 to 2 billion metric tons is not eaten which is a tragic of wastage which needs to be curb in order to meet our future food demands. The United Nations predicts global population will peak at 9.5 billion people by 2075 which means, there will be additional 2.5 billion people to feed.
In order to save our future generation from going hunger without food resources, we should educate our children and ourselves to appreciate and reduce food wastage. We also learn to become less picky while shopping for fresh food in supermarkets without emphasizing too much on “cosmetic” criteria. Do always REMEMBER this Motto:
” CUTTING YOUR FOOD WASTE => HELPS SAVING MORE MONEY “
Food operators and supermarkets should also participate actively in distributing the food to poor people and charity homes in order to curb the problem of food wastage.
There is a worldwide active Environmentalist Organisation known as, Friends of the Earth which is jointly by 74 developing countries, to focus and emphasize on the restoration and improvement of the environmental projects, including the crisis of pollution on the Earth. Friends of the Earth, Hong Kong is an example of activist which is involved actively to educate the people in Hong Kong in reducing the food waste from ending up in the landfills, through the education campaign of “Waste No Food.” Hong Kong is famous for its food paradise but it is also reported that the city is collecting at least 3,500 tonnes of rubbish each day, where at least up to 40% of the unwanted food is ended up in the landfills every day.
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