2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
A UN report shows that a third of the world's food production goes to waste.
According to the organization's CEO, Jose Graziano Da Silva, unused food is equivalent to Switzerland's gross domestic product.
Every year, 4 billion tons of food are produced and such a large percentage of wasted food is unacceptable.
Da Silva reveals her concerns about this trend, as 870 million people worldwide are reportedly starving every day.
Uneaten food is most often discarded due to strict expiration dates, consumer pickiness, poor infrastructure and storage facilities in developing countries.
The British have been declared the nation that throws out the most food. They throw away an average of 30% of the food they produce or buy.
An average of 140,000 tons of food is dumped in Bulgaria. At the same time, every fifth Bulgarian lives on the brink of poverty and is deprived of a varied and complete diet.
Maya Kalcheva - Executive Director of the Bulgarian Food Bank, proposes to donate unused food.
According to Kalcheva, the main reason why people prefer to throw away their food instead of donating it to social kitchens or orphanages is the taxation of donated goods, which the government stubbornly refuses to abolish.
According to the latest data, the number of starving Bulgarians is seriously increasing. The social kitchens report that they are visited by an average of 750 citizens per month, and most of them are children with various diseases.
Bulgarian retail chains are also destroying large quantities of food.
The Food Safety Agency claims that our chains have reached this vicious practice of not paying for the slaughterhouse for the destruction of this food - ie. spoiled food to be processed and returned to the store.
Large amounts of wasted food add 3.3 billion tons of greenhouse gases to the Earth's atmosphere each year.
On this occasion, various organizations are launching the campaign - Global Food: Do not throw away, do not buy.
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