WASTAGE OF FOOD

Food waste or food loss is food material that is discarded or unable to be used. Various political organizations and entities have their own definition of what constitutes food waste. The causes of wasted food are numerous, and occur at the stages of production, processing, and retailing.

Cooking or preparing too much - for example cooking too much rice or pasta and it gets left in the saucepan or on the plate.

Reasons of Wastage of Food

We don't know how to use up our leftovers.

In Restaurants and Marriages we order more food than our requirement, that is wasted afterwards.

Causes of Wastage of food

Limits of the technology used to conserve products, namely fresh products

Damage to the product and food packaging during transportation and storage

Inadequate professional training of sales staff, who don’t always display the food appropriately on the shelves, and don’t perform proper stock rotation procedures

Control of weed and harmful insects in fields.

Proper storage of food, fruits and vegetables.

We should buy only that much food which can be consumed or kept safely. We should not

waste food in functions

This is Pulitzer winning photo by Kevin Carter in 1994.This photo depicts a child crawling toward the United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away. The vulture is waiting for the child to die, so he could eat the child. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer who left the place as soon as clicked the picture.

Don’t forget

When we eat and waste the food like this……

There are many who starve like this…….

So Friends lets take a pledge to