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Most people don’t realize that food waste goes beyond the moral implications, wasting food when one billion people go to bed hungry every night and it is also a major environmental problem. It is so sad that we have the power to feed the hungry with all of the food we waste and yet we just throw it into the garbage. Food production is also the largest single driver of biodiversity loss and creates at least 30 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to wasting labor and resources, as food decomposes in landfills it produces methane, a greenhouse gas. Food waste is occur in the field, in storage, in transport, and at home. Everyone including farmers, food manufacturers, and consumers are responsible for food waste footprints.
Despite what many consumers think, expiry dates are unregulated and do not indicate food safety. One of the best ways to tell if food has gone bad is not by using some fancy technology, but by simply putting our senses to work. If food smells bad or looks bad, it’s probably not good to eat and we can fight against food waste. Portion increases are bad for both our waistlines and our waste footprints, we can cut down our portion size to minimize food waste. We also need to educate ourselves by learning the best ways to store food at home to reduce food waste. Collecting and displaying data on food waste is critical to changing our wasteful habits. We won’t change our wasteful habits until we realized the amount of waste.
Another reason why people wasting food is that lack of awareness of hunger. Imagine what it feels like to go hungry for a day. Now, imagine what it feels like to go hungry for two days, a week, or more. For most of us this is hard and impossible to comprehend but for hundreds of millions this is a reality. Each day on this planet, as many children die from hunger-related issues. Women and girls who produce most of the world’s food are suffering the greatest hunger and poverty and derive the fewest benefits while we are wasting food. With the awareness, we can take back control and change our wasteful habits to fight against hunger.

Source- http://www.omaha.com/eedition/sunrise/articles/stew-will-feed-awareness-of-food-waste-and-hunger/article_31099aca-bc47-5c94-be5d-6cd36052e16d.html
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