Wasting Food is Wasting Life #RespectFood

Can someone kindly explain what the issue is with wasting food anyway??? I mean meat is completely understandable.... but any other food. Why does it matter to some?

I mean it's not like the stuff grows on trees.... Oh wait :p
 
I've always thought this too. If you can't finish your food you should keep it for later and finish it then. It's such a waste to be binning it.
 
Stumble Bum said:
Can someone kindly explain what the issue is with wasting food anyway??? I mean meat is completely understandable.... but any other food. Why does it matter to some?

I mean it's not like the stuff grows on trees.... Oh wait :p
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Most food uses artificial fertilisers (oil based) and pesticides which kill bees so it's probably a good idea to not grow what we don't need.
 
Stumble Bum said:
Can someone kindly explain what the issue is with wasting food anyway??? I mean meat is completely understandable.... but any other food. Why does it matter to some?

I mean it's not like the stuff grows on trees.... Oh wait :p
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It’s really just an ideology thing. We waste food while others across the world starve. I’d happily give the sausages I throw out to a starving African family, but there’s no way to do so.
 
Monkeynut said:
Most food uses artificial fertilisers (oil based) and pesticides which kill bees so it's probably a good idea to not grow what we don't need.
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It’s also usually grown in monocultures where native and competing plants and trees are destroyed reducing the food and biodiversity for other animals.

Much of the food in the UK comes from elsewhere, in many places where either the forests have been cleared to make way for farming or people struggle to grow and buy food for themselves.

There’s a big issue in many parts of Africa where large conglomerates are taking prime farmland farmed by locals for generations. All that food leaves the country and half of it gets wasted.

Farming is a worldwide industry where much of our food is moved halfway across the world, mostly for fruits, veg and grains - beans from Ethiopia, apples from South Africa, Rice from Indonesia/Philippines, bananas from Guatemala - but also meat. New Zealand Lamb is a prime example, but many processed foods contain meat and dairy products from all over the world. So no, it’s not just an ideology thing.

The increased amount of food bought for consumption/waste in the west also affects bulk prices. A greater demand for rice and wheat in the west increases prices, forcing even staples like those out of reach of many in developing countries, even the countries that are growing those very products.
 
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making food really equates to energy usage to a large extent, so if waste food goes to energy recovery/ bio mass what ever then not really so bad.

A lot of people still seem to think that it ends up in landfill, but here in Hampshire there are no land fill sites left I believe.
 
Vern1961 said:
You can tell a lot of the fruit and veg in the supermarkets is force grown too, year round strawberries being a case in point, bland and watery.
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What do you mean by "force grown"?

AFAIK fruit is still grown seasonally but some of it is stored and kept fresh in large warehouses so that it can be sold year round
 
Aneskimo said:
Surely that’s a hitch that can be worked out? I mean I’m sure I’m not the only one who has tried stuff out of date a lot of the time it’s perfectly fine
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By who?

Why would a supermarket spend money on the words "eat out of date food". It's undermining them in so many ways.
 
Hotwired said:
By who?

Why would a supermarket spend money on the words "eat out of date food". It's undermining them in so many ways.
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They are just a guideline that is required by the food standards agency I think, so if there is a way the food can have an extra day or two of longevity off the shelf then it can be used. The food is getting scraped anyway so it’s not undermining them because people who use the food bank ain’t going to shop there due to no money surely?
 
Aneskimo said:
They are just a guideline that is required by the food standards agency I think, so if there is a way the food can have an extra day or two of longevity off the shelf then it can be used. The food is getting scraped anyway so it’s not undermining them because people who use the food bank ain’t going to shop there due to no money surely?
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It's about responsibility.

Who is to blame if the worst happens. The supermarket loses face, maybe a bit of money, maybe a lot of money if its a large scale thing but mostly the bad publicity.

Also I believe there is a misconception about what exactly a supermarket throws out. Yes at some point it was probably all edible and in good condition and therefore wasted food. But the date running out is just one reason to throw out food.

Incidentally companies do exist that specialise in selling long life food at very low prices because date reasons (also assorted other reasons but mostly dates): http://store.approvedfood.co.uk/page?name=about_us

But that's a very long way from sorting through a supermarkets thousands of waste products in various "this is why its being disposed of" states.
 
It isn't the supermarkets to blame but ordinary people at restaurants and at home.
Supermarkets throw away UNSOLD & UNWANTED food, restaurants throw away food that was already served.
That's the culture of the society.

Let me quote myself once more:

I have seen shocking things in the USA. People leave on the table 3/4th of whole sized pizzas on a regular basis.

Study proves it:
America throws away enough food each year to feed most of the WORLD: Study claims Americans dispose of nearly 40 percent of the produce they buy
Study finds Americans throw away 31% to 40% of the food they buy every year
If all Americans' food waste was recovered, they could give a 2,000-calorie diet to 84% of the population
Part of the problem is that Americans don't know when food goes bad
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...throw-away-food-feed-world.html#ixzz4wAmWd0cY
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Half of all US food produce is thrown away, new research suggests
Americans throw away almost as much food as they eat because of a “cult of perfection”, deepening hunger and poverty,....
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/13/us-food-waste-ugly-fruit-vegetables-perfect
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D.P. said:
People's misunderstand of best before
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Here, people say that throwing bread away is a sin. Throwing food away is also a sin.
It's much better to gather the food you can't take and give it to your animals if there are no other human beings to whom you can do it.
 
If all food was created sustainably & all waste food was composted... it wouldn't matter! :p


But hey, the world will be forced into this sooner than later as synthetic fertiliser and rock based fertiliser are finite resources.
 
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