I had the idea for this post during my July project: Nature and Us. However as I couldn’t get it to fit in I wanted to make it a separate post all together.
Production of food and drink is a multi billionaire business. Eating is a basic human necessity and yet, despite all the food to go around, all of the food produced each year and the food available on the shelves, millions go hungry.
According to the BBC, as of 2020, 700 million people are going hungry. That number is increasing every year.
A meeting was held in 2019 by a branch of the UN and talks were held about food waste what needs to be done to make changes.
Our actions have consequences…
The UN Environment Assembly met on the 11th to the 15th of March 2019. If you are interested in learning everything about this meeting, the records are public and posted here: The Fourth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly.
In this meeting, they said “
“Deeply concerned that approximately one third of the food produced annually in the world for human consumption, equivalent to some 1.3 billion tonnes and representing an approximate value of 990 billion United States dollars, is lost or wasted, while 821 million people suffer from
undernourishment.”
Why is so much food wasted?
Well, many reasons could factor but one answer is it goes off before it is used. Life is busy so when you get home after a long day on your feet you are not in the mood to make food for yourself.
There are recipes out there that can use few ingredients and take no more than 15 mins to make.
Find some of these recipes below:
If we can cut down our waste individually, over time it would make a difference globally.
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