Down the Rabbit Hole

Global Food Waste

30-Day Blogging Challenge
PROMPT January 18th
How much do you know about food waste in your country? Spend some time researching this issue and share a fact you learned. How conscious of your access to food are you and in what ways can you be more responsible for reducing your own food waste?

I would like to say I am more aware of my own food waste but as a mother of a picky child, that would be stretching the truth. Sometimes I turn a blind eye to the plates of dinner that go unfinished into the bin. This country in particular suffers from over-consuming and that translates into more food waste than most other countries in the world. Just a simple google search revealed how serious this issue is globally, and it left me feeling embarrassed and depressed.

"All the world’s nearly one billion hungry people could be fed on less than a quarter of the food that is wasted in the US, UK and Europe."

So really, shame on us. We have a billion people starving on our planet and yet "1/3 of all food produced ends up going to waste!" What is wrong with us? Why are we not funneling more of our intellectual resources at trying to find a solution to the humanitarian hunger?
The facts are pretty sobering.

Source: https://olioex.com/food-waste/food-waste-facts/