Food Waste 

Did you know that 88 million tons of food are wasted each year in Europe? And these are  some reasons why there’s so much food waste. 

  In countries that aren’t as developed and there isn’t as much wealth there’s more food waste because infrastructure, storage, and merchandise transport isn't the best quality and are not as advanced so they don't have cooling systems so the food spoils at a faster rate. 

 Not only that food is wasted because we spend resources on feed and growing those aliments, let's say we want to feed livestock for nine months the resources that we spend our water, arable land, time and energy, and oil to transport that meat, even if we don't eat a piece of steak we are throwing away all those natural resources making the earth carry more weight for the ecosystem. Each year millions of km square are cut down from Brazil and Argentina just to grow soy for cows, sheep, and pigs.

 Cutting down these large proportions make the land less fertile, the oxygen created by the trees reduces, biodiversity loss, and many more.... 

  Many big supermarkets companies and big international producers  waste a lot of food, companies have a certain regulation on the size, color, shape, what does this mean? This means that companies will not accept let's say a yellow apple that isn't round, small, or anything that isn't perfect,many of these products get discarded.

              

 Instead supermarkets buy in large quantities getting discounts on the products, having such large numbers of products with time passing  they start to spoil, making food waste even worse, not only that it employs.

 People get confused with two certain meanings of these two frases “Best Buy” and “Use By”, many people might think that they have the same meaning but it isn't true Best Buy means:”the quality of that product is at it’s best before that date but it can still be eaten after the date but it will not be at his best quality”.

Use by:”This product has to be used within the date, or if you use it after it may be dangerous”.

And here are some reasons food is wasted, see you next time!