Rizal Philippines
December 25, 2015
Global feedback - Food Waste Scandal
This post became interested in this topic after his students in school shared with him this short film, a winner in Cannes Film Festival about food waste and hunger. Chicken a la Carte from You Tube. It highlights food waste while there is a lack of food among the scavengers.
Today, there was a mention that this problem of food waste is now prevalent in Singapore (from Asia News)
I searched for the topic Food Waste and Food Hunger and one of the important sites is: Say no to food waste facts. Here are some of the important facts: (it is really extreme; 1/3 of food is wasted. 1.5 billion people are obese.l If the 1.3 billion food waste were not, it would be enough to feed the hungry people. And yet 19,000 people die of hunger daily
1. 1/3 of all food in the world is wasted. This 1.3 billion tons of food would be enough to feed 4 times all the hungry in the world.
2. Almost 1 billion people are hungry worldwide. On the other hand around 1.5 billion people in the whole world are overweight and 400 million are obese.
3. In USA between 40% and 50% of food is thrown away. The waste is valued at $165 billion (it’s ¼ of the US military budget).
4. An average American throws out about 240 lbs of food per year.
5. An average American family of 4 throws out food worth $2,275.
6. A 20% reduction in food waste would be enough to feed 25 million Americans.
Like diabetes; starvation in the midst of plenty. One of 4 people in US are hungry.
40% of food in US is wasted
Such translates in waste of resources; land, water and labor. It means 8 million hectares of land planted (about total arable land in the Philippines)
Rotting food produces mega tons of methanes, which would rank third worldwide (if rotting food were a country) ranks third in emission (which contributes to climate channge leading to extreme weather.
