Monday, September 19, 2011

Wasted

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Author Jonathan Bloom Digs through the Problem of Billions of Tons of Food Waste

Picture: This picture shows that Americans throw out enough food every day to fill the Rose Bowl stadium.
Summary: This article was about how the world wastes so much food. It is not only america. It is alot of the wealthier nations. Unfortanatlly 97% of wasted food goes into landfills. If we waste so much food we should at least use it for fertalizer. Grocery stores are one of the main reasons that this happens.  They throw out an unbelevable amount of food daily. This food gets thrown away because it is precooked and noone buys it or there is an expiration date. Five billion eggs also get thrown out because one egg is cracked, so they get rid of the whole dozen. A new store called In.gredients is opening in Texas and it is a "green" store. This is because you have to bring your own containers and and that makes you only buy what you need.
Opinion: I think that this is a problem that can be fixed. We could have a trash service that recycles our food and turns it into fertalizer. That would also eliminate all the chemicals we are using for fertalizer. I think that these grocery stores are a great idea because the force customes to only buy what they need. if you try to buy more then you need then you run out of containers.
Questions:
1. Do you think that your family wastes alot of food? If so how can you change that?
2. Do you think that whoever does the shopping in your house buys more than needed?
3. If there was a In.gredients grocery store near us would you shop there?

4 comments:

  1. Opinion: To be completely honest, I do not feel that this is a problem we can fix. i feel this way because no matter where you go in the world, people are going to be greedy no matter what. If we attempted to make it into fertilizer, then we will have to deal with the chances of other diseases that we do not know about. I do feel we cant get rid of this problem in the big picture. However, i feel that we could cut this down a lil bit. In my opinion, i dont want people with their dirty hands all over food you could possibly get.

    Answer a question-#3
    I would not shop at a store like this for just the overall fact of i would not want other people touching my food. like i dont want someone forgetting to wash their hands and then go touch all the frozen pizza. like i dont know about you but i dont like smelly pizza. just my opinion.

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  2. Answer3- If the In.grediant store was clean and had quality groceries then yes i would shop there but also I am not the shopper in my family so i'd have to see if my mom would

    Also if there is like 3 other post by aynonomus 2 of them are mine.

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  3. Question 3 Answer- I would shop there if there was one near me but there isn't so Giant's where its at.

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  4. I agree with Mark, because this a problem we cannot entirely fix. No matter how hard we try there will always be people who waste food. We can try to cut it down, but not fix it.

    question # 3- I would shop at that store, because i can try not to waste food.

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