Food mess worldwide on France Culture

[Christophe]

Food waste on a global scale in an image ... hey no we do not need more fertilizer or more GMOs to feed humanity ...less bullshit will be enough!

Sider, shocking.

Nearly half of the world's food is wasted, according to a recent British study.

Other data circulate, less dramatic. But in these times of crisis and when one billion people are malnourished, the scourge remains. A global awareness seems to be born in France, but less so at the environmental level.

Different audio or video arguments: http://www.franceculture.fr/emission-pi ... 2013-01-18

[Christophe]

Another infographic on food waste by FNE:

[Christophe]

An article on LeMonde of the day: http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2 ... _3244.html

Agricultural and food losses cost the planet each year the equivalent of three times Lake Geneva in wasted water and needlessly occupy one third of its agricultural area. The production of these non-consumed commodities causes as much greenhouse gas emissions as the United States or China in six months.

For nothing. In a report published on Wednesday 11 September (PDF format),
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FAO report: http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3347e/i3347e.pdf

[Christophe]

Some other pages on econology about the food mess:

https://www.econologie.com/le-gaspillage ... -4138.html

https://www.econologie.com/forums/guide-de-l ... 10229.html

https://www.econologie.com/forums/gaspillage ... 11836.html

https://www.econologie.com/forums/c-dans-l-a ... 10472.html

[sen-no-sen]

There is obviously a huge mess of end of chain, as it is demonstrated in addition.
Nevertheless the biggest waste is at the beginning of the chain and is located on the food choices in themselves ....

[Janic]

Moreover some foods are thrown by their very structure as the bread (industrial or craft) which depending on the time can be used as a jump rope or drive nails and ended up in the trash in one day unlike a whole organic bread, on leaven, which can be consumed over a week and the few remains can be used to make French toast or vegetable pie.
in the same way the fresh fruits coming out of the chain of the cold deteriorate quickly without preservatives because too fragile.
What does not seem to have taken into account the study is the mandatory waste such as peelings, tops, bones, skin, bones and other non-consumable parts. When calibrated products are a matter of organization because they could be derived to processed products like juices that would benefit our children rather than coca or red bull.

[Christophe]

Another infographic, by type of food this time: http://www.popsci.com/article/science/h ... nfographic

[Grelinette]

I reactivate this subject to share an anecdote.

We have 3 equidae at home (including Nénuphar, a Breton draft horse with which I share my horse experiments and some epic times). We also have 5 rabbits, 4 quail and 1 duck, (not to mention wild boars, foxes, badgers and other wild fauna that make us visit nocturnal), and all this little animal world lives outside in the fresh air and is fed mainly with wild boar. hay and cereals.
To improve their diet I regularly ask traders if they have unsold food: fruits, vegetables, bread, ...

This year Ministère de la transition écologique has passed a law to fight against waste: https://www.ecologique-solidaire.gouv.f ... oins-jeter

Suddenly, now when I ask the traders if they have unsold food they do not know what to do with and that they can give me for my animals, they answer me "No ... now there is a law to fight against waste!".

But as I'm stubborn, I keep asking and it happens that a trader eventually give me some unsold, but obviously now with some gene. So I asked what they were doing now unsold food ...

Well now ... they throw them ... but discreetly because it's forbidden but they have no solution!
Usually they put them in black trash bags, and hop in the evening it is thrown in the bucket, but with the greatest discretion.

What is ugly is that at the same time there are regular food collection operations organized by associations, usually at the entrance of supermarkets; it is true that it is more class to recover a food product that comes straight from the radius of the supermarket, via the caddy of the housewife, than to go get it in the bucket behind the building!

Our company is on the head: certainly there are businesses that are organized to avoid this food waste, often more motivated by the tax advantages than for charitable reasons, but we produce too much on one side, we throw much of the other, a law forbids to throw to traders, but nothing is really set up or organized to try to match these yet complementary phenomena.

I would not be surprised if a law forbids the population to breathe during pollution peaks!
(There is also a mayor who has forbidden to die on his commune because the communal cemetery was full ... )

http://vadeker.net/articles/humour/lois_stupides.html

[sicetaitsimple]

A slightly brutal answer would be to say that if you have 3 equids it is normally for your pleasure and that you demerdes to feed them.

Then that indeed it is a huge problem to "distribute" in a "fair" way, according to the real needs, perishable unsold products, if you have a solution it is welcome.

Finally, it seems really inappropriate to throw stones more or less directly at food collection operations at the exit of supermarkets, collections carried out by volunteers and whose sorting and distribution are also carried out by volunteers and who do a substantial part of the "inputs" of "food banks" various type restau du cœur or others.

[Janic]

"fair",

but that's what Grelinette does: equi-table!