Do we need to grow more

Do we need to grow more

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  Do we needto grow more food?
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  • About thirdof the planet’s food goes waste – some because its not picture – perfect • In a world nearly 800 million people a year go hungry • Food waste goes against the moral grain • Producing food squanders the water, fuel and other resources used to grow it
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  • If foodwaste were a country, it would be the third largest producers of greenhouse gases in the world, after China and the US • Everyone can play a part in reducing food waste • In India, growers annually trash thousands of tons of fresh greens that lack sufficient shelf life for a cross country journey
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  • According tothe Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, we squander enough food – globally, 2.9 trillion pounds a year – to feed every one of then more than twice over. • Where is all the food going? • In developing nations much is lost post harvest for lack of adequate storage facilities, good roads and refrigerations
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  • In comparison,developed nations waste more food farther down the supply chain, when retailers order, serve or display too much and when consumers ignore leftovers in the back of the fridge or toss perishables before they have expired • Wasting food takes environmental toll as well
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  • In theplanet of finite resources, with the expectation of at least two billion more residents by 2050, do we need to waste? • Reducing waste has become a matter of national emergency • Departmental stores are running stores like a beauty pageants, responding to customers, they say, who expects only platonically ideal produce, apples round and shiny, asparagus straight and tightly budded.
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  • It wouldbe far better to simply reduce the standards • The U.S. wastes 30 to 40 percent of its food while one in seven people suffers from food insecurity • Our choice of perfectly shaped fruit equals, X million acres of land, X million gallons of water and X million pounds of fertilizers
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  • With populationgrows and more people develop taste for meat and dairy products, which require huge inputs of grains and other resources for relatively little caloric gains, this toll shall worsen • We need to tell people in concise way that their choices matters • SAVE FOOD!! Rather than it going to bin!! - Think and act on it
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  • Source: NationalGeographic Mag
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  • Source: NationalGeographic Mag