The source I have provided is a Ted Talk by Tristram Stuart, an advocate for eliminating food waste. He dives into the appalling data of wasted food, and calls for better use of global resources. See as a country gets richer it invests more into getting more surplus into its shops and restaurants. A country like America has 3 to 4 times the amount of food it needs to feed its population, and there still is hunger in our country and around the world. We've never had such gargantuan surpluses before. In many ways, this is a great success story of human civilization, of the agricultural surpluses that we set out to achieve many years ago. But what we have to recognize now is that we are reaching our ecological limits that our planet can bear, and when we chop down forests, as we do every day, to grow more and more food, when we extract water from depleting water reserves, when we emit fossil fuel emissions in the quest to grow more and more food, and then we throw away so much of it, we have to think about what we can start saving. We the people have the power to stop this tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food on a colossal scale, if we make noise about it, tell corporations about it, tell governments we want to see an end to food waste, we do have the power to bring about that change.
Yes I very much agree on this. We the people have a say in what we can and can't do. Food waste is so common now, it doesn't even phase us no more. i remember leaving the mall after the mall had closed, I happened to walk by the dumpster and I see at least a box full of noodles all over the ground. Its so sad to see this knowing that a homeless person could have eaten it. Our world is slowly dying because of us.
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