Summary
“We’re worse with food waste than we think” (2020) presents us that the amount of food waste is researched by Dutch researchers, who use sources from the World Health Organization (WHO) and FAO, World Bank. When the researchers came over to the details at both of the sources and they found that original estimate of the FAO, 214 kilocalories per calorie per day is really an abundant underestimate of the global food waste like they determined it, since they had a factor two larger estimate of 527 kilocalories per calorie per day. The article, furthermore, suggests solution for this challenging as the shoppers could be changed buying behaviors as enough buying habits; thinking that can always shop more, not necessary buying in excessive demand.
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Response
Recently, I have searched a news about food waste from BBC, then this news appeals me. At first, I definitely thought the news was about the food wate, probably it is kind of the world’s difficulties and we should solve this problem as soon as possible, otherwise the earth will worse from food waste. I am a person, who used to damage our world by Buffet dishes but now I would say that I do not eat them anymore. Therefore, the news make me realize about my grandparents’s quotes. Background of my grandparents, who are the farmers in baby boomer generation, have been struggled with several inconvenient, so they always tell me that I have to know how value of food is since, they know as before getting the gain of rice how exhausted must it be or think about homeless people who have no food, how their hardship are. Not only teaching about the value of food but also other values such as, money, time and people. Although my grandmother did not graduate, almost of her quotes are full of qualities from all of her experiences. The news, moreover, make me realize about “Sufficiency Economy”,which is a royal initiative of King Rama 9 that is about “how tend to be enough in the life as moderate practicing, precaution, consideration of moderation, rationality, self-immunity as well as using knowledge and virtue, which will lead to “ happiness” in life.
Furthermore, the BBC mentions about solution to solve food waste problem as well, which tend to change behavior in populations by encouraging shoppers to switch extreme shopping to be “enough” shopping that is also relate to quotes from King Rama 9 as I have mentioned before.
To sum up, I still believe the quotes from King Rama 9 and my grandparents that Living with the word as “enough”, then the problem of not enough actually is disappearing. I really sure that the quote fit in every situation. I hope that every reader will get some benefits from this essay.
Furthermore, the BBC mentions about solution to solve food waste problem as well, which tend to change behavior in populations by encouraging shoppers to switch extreme shopping to be “enough” shopping that is also relate to quotes from King Rama 9 as I have mentioned before.
To sum up, I still believe the quotes from King Rama 9 and my grandparents that Living with the word as “enough”, then the problem of not enough actually is disappearing. I really sure that the quote fit in every situation. I hope that every reader will get some benefits from this essay.
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Question
Do you think food waste is the huge problem? Why?
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Reference
- Briggs, H. (2020, February 12). We're worse with food waste than we think. BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51450727
As I am enjoying my morning coffee, always a good time to browse the news and to some quick response writing, I was tempted to avocados on toast by Mae's blog post above, and Mo's topic is directly food.
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid I'm still one of those people who enjoy buffet meals. I eat at Le Meridien Hotel near my home once of twice a week because my friends and I love their range of buffets. I usually have breakfast there on Friday mornings so that I can pig out on bacon, eggs, juices, smoked salmon, breads, yoghurt, sausages and all the other traditional breakfast delights, including some tasty Japanes fish and things. And their lunch and dinner buffets also offer great value, with a wide range of food from around the world to enjoy. But looking at the piles of food, I do wonder what happens to all left overs that the greedy guests like myself can't eat. I am sure that there is a lot of waste every day.
But what I really enjoyed in Mo's response were her reflections about her grandparents, which reminded me of my own. Like Mo's my own grandparents were farmers, so had a healthy appreciation of the value of the food that took hard work to produce, whether cattle for steak, sugar cane for sugar, or grapes for wine (my family is Italian - when they cleared the Australian bush 140 years ago, the first thing they planted were the grape cuttings they had brought from Italy.)
ANd like Mae's grandparents, mine had lots of quotable saysings, but as I grew older, I realised that a lot of the my grandparents said with all sincerity were not only false, but pretty awful. They were lovely people, but reflected the culture they had grown up in: they thought it was OK to kill communists, they hated people who did not believe in religion, thinking that they must be bad people without morals, and, most surprising to me given that my family are relatively recent immigrants to Australia, there were anti-immigrant and racist. They were still my loving grandparents, and lovely people, but as I grew up and started to think for myself, I realized that them and my nearest and dearest relatives uncritically believed some ideas that were seriously wrong, and morally bad. Usually I don't say anything when my mother or an uncle is making comments I disagree with, but sometimes they go far and I ask questions to try to push them to see that perhaps more immigrants would help Australia to develop a stronger economy, or that merely because something is taught be a religion does not make it either true or good. I think that my young nieces and nephews probably have more critically informed and well-developed understandings about many issues than my grandparents did, and that seems natural to me: the world should progress with each generation improving on the old ones.
My grandparents were wonderful, kind, caring people, but they were certainly not perfect or right about everything. I think that means that they were human beings like all of the rest of us.
As I read Mo's Article, The question that I related with an article are how dose the Thai government take care of the food waste and other type of waste. I recently keep wondering about this for a few month after I came back from Korea. Why I wonder about this topic since I spent time for six months I was trained to separate many kind of trash before I throw it in a trash bin and there are many trash type of trash bins in everywhere. It was not convenient for me at first but after I knew the system every thing was not complicated anymore. Moreover, there are only one garbage collector to pick up all type of trash to the waste truck but he categorize every type of it in system. In comparison, when I come back to Thailand, I tell my parent at least we should try to separate the food waste from plastic bags so the recycle system will be more easier, we keep doing that for a while and one day my mom told me that the garbage collector told her not to categorize any trash. It complicates for them to pick up, at the end all rubbish would combine together at the trash pile, this was terrified me, it means that we have not had a proper system to sort out wastes from households or it means that our garbage collector was not trained properly to do his job. Sooner or later, our country would facing environment problem soon.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading Naam's comment, I'm wondering why my condo has two trash bins if everything gets mixed together. But when I thought about it, I think Naam is right: only one garbage truck comes to pick up the garbage at my condo, and I think they do throw everything in together, even though I separate my garbage into "dry" and "wet" as the condo management calls it. Actually, I don't know what happens with garbage in Australia these days either.
DeleteAnd I'm also wondering about the Korean system: does more than one truck go to collect garbage, or how do they manage collecting the categorized garbage that people put out for collection?