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Food Westage - moral degradation of mankind

Introduction: FAO estimates that each year approximately 1.3 billion tonnes of food, which amounts to approximately one-third, by weight, of all food produced for human consumption in the world, is lost or wasted. Hypothesis: Food wastege in the world where 800 million people suffer from hunger is not only agricultural, economical or socioogical question, but above all the moral failure of entire western society. Methods: Critical analyse of the European parliament document (A8-0175/2017) and policy on food wastage. Findings: Food wastage happens along the entire food supply chain, but the sector contributing the most to food waste in the EU is households (53%). It contributes to climate change, with a global carbon footprint of about 8 % of total anthropogenic global GHG emissions. In Europe the approximately 89 Mt of wasted food generate 170 Mt CO2 eq./yr. The production of the 30 % of wasted food is responsible for an additional 50 % of water resource irrigation use and lagre loos of biodiversity. At the same time, almost 793 million people in the world are malnourished and more than 700 million live below the poverty line. It is unquestionable that unsufficiant nutrition is responsible for approximately 3.1 million of all deaths in children under 5. Facing that fact any irresponsible use of natural resources and any food wastage should therefore be considered morally unacceptable. Conslusion: Any effective action to reduce food waste requires a comprehensive rethink of how we produce, market and consume food at each step in the food supply and consumption chain. But action should not only focus on the change in consumers habits, but to go deep into radical destruction of neoliberal capitalistic paradigm based on immoral and perverted overproduction and overconsumption with unfair distribution of wealth in the world.

carbon footprint ; consumer behaviour ; ecological footprint ; policy on food waste

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