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When you’re practicing
a language, the teachers have to set a topic to talk about with the students (at
least in EAFIT’s center language) so they can practice vocabulary and speaking.
When I was studying Italian there, one teacher chose “Food Waste”. She played a
video that explained a little bit of this problem and the numbers of food
wasting is alarming. Now I had to start thinking about some SDG to talk about
and I saw Food Security, then I remembered that class and that video and started
thinking: Why there’s Food Waste but at the same time there’s people dying
because they don’t have access to food?
According to the Food
and Agriculture Organization (n.d.) “the food waste refers to any food that is
discarded, incinerated, or otherwise disposed of along the food supply chain
from harvest/slaughter/catch up to, and does not re-enter in any other
productive utilization, such as feed or seed”. The amount of this food waste are
tons a day, tons that can help others to fulfil their needs of some meal.
While I’m writing this
article, there’re around 2,486,180,850 people living in moderate and severe food
insecurity (“World Hunger Clock”, 2021). So, if the world produces enough food
to feed everyone but still is wasted, how can we turn that food that is destined
to be disposed to feed people?
In my opinion,
countries should create an initiative to get that food wasting a purpose, a
second chance, and so as the people that would receive it. Maybe something like
they separate the food and put it into a fridge until some entity pick it up and
distribute the food to the needy. And instead of just throwing out food, they
get less taxes or something like that by contributing to Zero Hunger.
It’s just an idea, but
it can be done in some way…
Sources:
Food Loss and Food
Waste. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 6 May
2021, taken from http://www.fao.org/food-loss-and-food-waste/flw-data).
World Hunger Clock.
Worldhunger.io. (2021). Retrieved 6 May 2021, taken from https://worldhunger.io/?campaignid=11650289004&adgroupid=114814811215&adid=484285168727&gclid=Cj0KCQjwp86EBhD7ARIsAFkgakjcmXYqcPMDiCWpX7KEOkrVbOs2NuWHDKAVOdpLTYR4PeeeZbd2O1QaAsq6EALw_wcB.
Hi Juan David, i just read your entry about food waste and i also find it very alarming, to think that there are people dying due to food scarcity and at the same time the world is disposing of tons of food everyday. I know its also a very hard topic to talk about but sometimes that food can't be delivered to those people because sadly food has an expiration date, so i believe it would be more damaging to give the "scraps" to people that need it if the food has gone bad, what we need to do is to have a more organized and equal distribution of food inside of every country, generally if food goes to waste is because the producers overestimate the demand of people in a certain area and it starts to accumulate, if there was a correct distribution of the food there wouldn't be so much food going to the trash everyday, "food for thought", have a nice day!
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