Food  Waste

When I was younger, I used to waste a lot of food, because I did not like it or it had a bad shape or color. But recently at my school we have studied that food waste is bad for our planet , in fact as we studied, our class wastes about 20% of its food per week. That’s a huge amount. Also, food wastes does waste not only food, but also energies and resources, such as water, electricity and fuel, and space.

First of all, wasting food wastes a lot of water. The animals that are raised to make your food need water to survive. They also need feed, which is made mostly from vegetables and fruits, which themselves need water to be grown. In fact, whenever we throw away a piece of meat, we also throw water away. Water is essential for our living, so wasting water is not the wisest thing to do.  

Other resources that are wasted through food-waste are electricity and non-renewable energies such as fuel. The animals that are used to make your food are raised in places that contain heating sources  to keep the animals warm, which need electricity to function correctly. Fuel is needed to transport  the food from one place to another and to cook it. However, the fuel used to transport the food is mostly non-renewable, which means that once we used it, it is gone. 

And last of all, food-waste consumes a huge amount of land. Why you may be thinking?Well, the reason for this is that raising animals and growing crops requires a lot of space. The land that we have nowadays is not big enough to grow the animals and raise the crops. As a result, people started to clear out some tropical forests in places such as Amazonia. Doing so hasbad consequences on our environment and ecosystems, since these trees provide oxygen to our planet and keeps us alive.

To conclude, wasting food is something we should stop doing due to all the bad effects it has on the environment, imagine all the things we could make with the energy we waste when we waste food. 

“Food Waste.”ec.europa.eu.European Union.Web.14 Mar 2019.