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The Unsustainable Consequence for Our Planet of Food Wastes.

Introduction

Food waste is a very huge global problem both to the food security of the planet and

even to the environment. It has negative effects on biodiversity, wastage of earth’s fertile

land, increased carbon footprints and acceleration of climatic change. Scientists have

suggested different ways to help to address the issue. The methods include improving the

harvesting methods, the changing of the way the foods are processed, encouraging food

balance with demand and food recycling. The traditional harvesting methods used to

encourage a lot of food waste in the farms but now researchers are coming up with better

harvesting methods. Processing methods are being improved to make sure that the foods store

for a little bit longer time to reduce wastage. Experts are also have come up with ways to help

governments and businesses all over the world to keep track of the amount of food they are

losing and find ways to cut down the wastage. In as much as these experts are trying to

minimize the consequences of food waste by coming up with the means and ways to solve the

problem of food waste, several pieces of research have revealed why governments have still

not been able to manage to maintain or sustain the consequence of food waster for our planet.

Lack of Appropriate Planning

Di Talia et al. (87), asserted that “minimizing or even sustaining the consequences of

food waste in the country has not been easy and it is rather increasing instead of decreasing”.

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In his research, one of the reasons for the cause of such a scenario is the lack of appropriate

planning. Lack of proper planning especially on the buyers’ side has been the top contributors

to food waste. A lot of people buy a lot of foods without taking into consideration how and

when the food will be prepared. Sometimes people change their food preparation plans due to

reasons such as tight contemporary work schedules. Sometimes they even forget to use it on

time (Di Talia et al, 90). Most of the time is out of control of consumers to plan effectively

on how to effectively follow the plans they have and this makes the foods get expired after

which they are forced to throw it away. Lack of appropriate planning also makes the

consumers find themselves badly prepared the food and in the end, it fails to taste nice. At the

end of the day, it is wasted because no one would like to eat foods that do not taste great.

Purchasing and Preparation of too Much Food

According to Gaiani et al. (56), another reason is the buying and preparation of excess

food. Food is mostly wasted because it is excess and this has greatly affected the ability of

the government to reduce food waste and its consequences. If one buys excess food, which

the majority of the people in the country do, it is going to automatically go to waste. These

are the leftovers and partially used foods (Gaiani, 78). Sometimes partially used food is put

in the fridge and the people end up not use the food because most of the people would want

fresh foods. The same scenario applies when there is the excessive purchase of food, which

ends up passing expiry dates and therefore the foods end up looking, tasting and smelling

bad.

Errors in Processing and Keeping up with Food Policies

A research conducted by Schanes et al. (67), revealed that mistakes in industrial

processing and complying with food policies is also another reason as to why there have been

unsustainable consequences of food waste. There are always the food safety procedures and

standards which do not allow errors in industrial processing or any other compromise that

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Surname 1 Name: Tutor: Course: Date: The Unsustainable Consequence for Our Planet of Food Wastes. Introduction Food waste is a very huge global problem both to the food security of the planet and even to the environment. It has negative effects on biodiversity, wastage of earth’s fertile land, increased carbon footprints and acceleration of climatic change. Scientists have suggested different ways to help to address the issue. The methods include improving the harvesting methods, the changing of the way the foods are processed, encouraging food balance with demand and food recycling. The traditional harvesting methods used to encourage a lot of food waste in the farms but now researchers are coming up with better harvesting methods. Processing methods are being improved to make sure that the foods store for a little bit longer time to reduce wastage. Experts are also have come up with ways to help governments and businesses all over the world to keep track of the amount of food they are losing and find ways to cut down the wastage. In as much as these experts are trying to minimize the consequences of food waste by coming up with the means and ways to solve the problem of food waste, several pieces of research have revealed why governments have still not been able to manage to maintain or sustain the consequence of food waster for our planet. Lack of Appropriate Planning Di Talia et al. (87), asserted that “minimizing or even sustaining the consequences of food waste in ...
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