Earth Healing
It is good for the soul to have beauty around us. By beauty I mean nature, trees, gardens birds and animals. Sadly we don't think about what we are doing to harm our beautiful earth. So here is information on what we are doing wrong and how we can make it better. Lets heal our earth and help heal ourselves.
How much in food do Canadians waste a year?
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What about your country's waste?
We waste approximately 40 per cent of our food, or $27-billion worth, according to the Value Chain Management Centre, an independent think tank based in Guelph, Ont. And just over half (51 per cent) of that gets tossed from households.
Keep in mind, we’re not talking about the strawberries that have been sitting in your crisper so long they’ve got grey fuzz on them, or those tomatoes with the gross green splotches that stink. The report is talking about edible food that simply gets chucked. Why? Partly because we load our plates with giant portions we can never finish, partly because we throw out food based on best-before labels, even if we’re not reading them properly or the food is still good. But mostly we toss food because, unlike so many other places on earth, food is cheap to us.
“A lot of food waste is an outcome of behaviour that is shaped by attitudes that really themselves are based on perceptions of abundance and affluence,” says Martin Gooch, director of the Value Chain Management Centre.
Mr. Gooch said he isn’t all that surprised that we continue to waste so much food. “There’s been no overarching program to encourage changes in attitude and behaviour,” he says.
He would like to see a program along the lines of Britains’s waste and resources action program, or WRAP, a not-for-profit organization that recently launched an anti-waste campaign called Love Food, Hate Waste.
Full article here.
What about your country's waste?
We waste approximately 40 per cent of our food, or $27-billion worth, according to the Value Chain Management Centre, an independent think tank based in Guelph, Ont. And just over half (51 per cent) of that gets tossed from households.
Keep in mind, we’re not talking about the strawberries that have been sitting in your crisper so long they’ve got grey fuzz on them, or those tomatoes with the gross green splotches that stink. The report is talking about edible food that simply gets chucked. Why? Partly because we load our plates with giant portions we can never finish, partly because we throw out food based on best-before labels, even if we’re not reading them properly or the food is still good. But mostly we toss food because, unlike so many other places on earth, food is cheap to us.
“A lot of food waste is an outcome of behaviour that is shaped by attitudes that really themselves are based on perceptions of abundance and affluence,” says Martin Gooch, director of the Value Chain Management Centre.
Mr. Gooch said he isn’t all that surprised that we continue to waste so much food. “There’s been no overarching program to encourage changes in attitude and behaviour,” he says.
He would like to see a program along the lines of Britains’s waste and resources action program, or WRAP, a not-for-profit organization that recently launched an anti-waste campaign called Love Food, Hate Waste.