On the whole, there is a broadly inconsistent manner by which items are labeled for suggested purchase and consumption dates, which can both prompt food distributors to not provide those foods even if they are safe to eat, and prompt consumers to toss food that may still otherwise be fine. And there are larger systemic problems that prevent good and nutritious food from finding its way to people who need it.
The movement, part of a network of social justice movements, recognizes that some of the same systemic injustices that impoverish and oppress certain communities also manifest in their limited access to healthy and affordable food.
Wasting food is not just harmful to us as humans, but it is harmful to our environment and contributes to global climate change. According to the FAO, food waste around the world contributes about 3. And so clearly, the scope of this problem is pretty vast — food waste occurs at all segments of the food supply chain.
There are a lot of things that can be done on the production end to limit the amount food waste on the whole. We can cut losses systemically by passing laws that change how we assess food quality and safety to improve access to nutritious food for disadvantaged communities and to remedy consumption-side behavior of throwing away food that may otherwise be fine.
For us as consumers, we need to better educate ourselves and our youth about the true significance of food so that we may prevent ourselves from ever treating it like trash. This means better understanding the resource and labor intensity of our foods too, so that we can also demand more environmentally friendly and socially just food.
In these cases, we need to compost the food, or use it to generate energy and feed our livestock. We can save carbon, nitrogen, and other nutrients from being needlessly lost by recycling them into our food and agriculture systems. Many of us understand how we can reduce waste by recycling paper, plastics, glass, and other metals — but we can do the same thing with our food and organic material and spend less money and energy doing it.
The compost bins you see around campus and at different establishments mean a lot more than just keeping food out of landfills — they give organic waste a shot to be used for food again. Much like other environmental issues, food waste is something we can easily prevent from being a problem. We can consume less food by purchasing only as much as we need. We can throw less of it away. We can compost what we end up not eating.
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