Summaries
Food waste is a very important issue nowadays, both locally and globally, and it comes to affect entire countries or continents. For you to better understand the magnitude of the problem, we have summarized each source of your exam material and commented upon them.
Source 1: “Causes of food waste”
The article was published by the European Commission on an EU Platform on food losses and food waste, and it is meant to raise awareness on a very important problem which the world confronts with nowadays: food waste.
The article shows that food waste occurs almost everywhere in the food supply chain, from the farms to the manufacturers and the buyers at home.
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Source 2: “Cutting food waste by a quarter would mean enough for everyone, says UN”
The article was published in 2015 on the website of The Guardian, and it presents some of the problems, effects, and solutions for food waste around the world.
First of all, the article presents the opinion of the UN regarding food waste; the UN states that food would be available for everyone if the population would cut food waste by a quarter. Nowadays, almost 800 million of people...
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Source 3: “Cutting food waste: reclaiming wonky veg”
The article was published at the beginning of 2016 on the website jamieoliver.com, owned by one of the most famous chefs around the world. Note that Jamie Oliver is an advocate for healthy eating and he is famous for his campaigns meant to introduce nutritious food in schools.
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Source 4: “Food waste recycling: what to do with the food you can't eat”
The chart was published on the website lovefoodhatewaste.com, and it presents some of the possibilities of reducing food waste.
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Source 5: “UK supermarkets slash food waste by 20,000 tonnes”
The article was written by Matt Grace for the website edie.net in 2015.
The article begins by presenting several UK retailers that have come together with the purpose of reducing food waste by over 20,000 tonnes in a year.
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Source 6: “Stop food waste”
The video presents several people in front of what can be called “food waste”.
In the video, a girl is presented in front of an open fridge which is filled with food up to the point it spills out on the floor; a man is shown in front of garbage bins filled with green produce (suggesting that the produce is thrown away because it does not look appealing, not because it is not good);
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Source 7: “Scale of UK food waste 'repugnant'”
The news video presents an alarming fact: 15 million tonnes of food is wasted in the UK annually, a fact which is deemed as “morally repugnant”.
The reporter James Blake is in a Fare Share charity warehouse and presents the food that did...
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Source 8: “Food waste: The end of 'buy one get one free'?”
The video begins with the image of food being thrown out of a garbage truck. The voiceover says that the UK wastes about 15 million tonnes of food every year. As a consequence, businesses like catering industries, producers, and supermarket lose 5 billion pounds.
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