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Italy: 30% of the food ends up in junk

written by en.theos

This time not talking about junk food, but food in the garbage.

The Italians throw in the trash each year a enough food to feed 44 million people, equivalent to the entire population of Spain.
is 30% of food bought at a price of € 37 billion, as much as 3% of GDP!

The average per capita is around 500 € a year.

These are impressive figures of a survey conducted by Adoc , communicated through the monthly Legambiente New Ecology .

disvalue WASTE

While slowly increasing the sensitivity with respect to wasting water and energy, it seems that there is no limit to the waste of food.

A waste even more unacceptable when one considers the moment of crisis and the level of malnutrition in many parts of the world. Wasteful son of wrong habits, laziness and indifference, reflecting well-being only alleged, because quantitative rather than qualitative. According to the survey in fact, the reasons why such a large amount of food takes away the pulp, are: the excess purchases (36%), expired or spoiled products (25%), excessive purchases due to special offers (24%), news you do not like (8%), unnecessary products (7). We know, in fact, fill the fridge and the pantry beyond measure, but obviously we can not consciously choose. This 'shortage' leverages the large retailers, supermarkets overloading of special offers.

REHABILITATION CONSUMPTION

AS 'FIRST

Observers as Coldiretti and Legambiente agree on the need to initiate an educational process designed to capture the sensitivity and awareness to consumers.

Coldiretti, at the recent Biodomenica, presented his 'recipe' anti-waste: a board cheap, rich in organic food and short chain in which the remains may also play a major role plan in preparing tasty recipes.

Legambiente proposes the project "Last Minute Market", in collaboration with the Faculty of Agriculture of Bologna and aimed to shed light on waste and provide ideas through concrete initiatives. In October, for instance, will celebrate the European Day against waste "in conjunction with the sponsorship of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Parliament.

The stated objective is the reduction of 50% of food waste which can be obtained only by involving all the 'actors' of the supply chain: farmers, distributors, traders, consmatori.

should then push on a qualitative sensibility, one that is acquired beginning to consciously choose healthier foods, one that allows us to understand that you do not need the 'time' but the 'right': in order to discover that just and healthy are good for health, the environment e. .. listen, listen, the wallet!

Yes, because one of the comments that you feel do by proposing a ' natural diet based on foods of biological origin is linked to the perception of high cost of the latter.

This aspect: if you are accustomed to eating 5 kg of meat per month, 10 liters of milk, cheese, fish, etc. .. and simply converts these foods in identical amounts of biological origin, but of course, spend more, too much, and justly among other things ..

But switching to a healthy diet can not fail to challenge the dominant food models (unrealistic in terms of nutrition and healthy), then gradually changing the quality and variety of ingredients, cooking methods, quantity. E 'impressive example, when you approach a natural cooking and we can look back on processed foods and preserved, the difference in satiating power: to experiment and just eat a plate of rice and an equal weight of white rice (the poor, deprived of the germ, fiber and valuable nutrients).

Reduce the amount then becomes a natural and necessary process in the presence of nutrient quality.

THE 'RECIPE' AMERICAN

While in Italy is transmitting data on waste, in Texas a group of scientists at the University of Austin has identified the reduction of food waste a source of energy for the country and then striking the planet.

According to this study if the U.S. would stop wasting food (they have exported lo spreco in tutto il mondo...) si potrebbero risparmiare circa 350 milioni di barili di petrolio! Quelli necessari a produrre l'energia necessaria a confezionare, distribuire e smaltire poi come rifiuti le tonnellate di cibo che finisce in pattumiera. Questo immane risparmio andrebbe tutto a beneficio della salute dei cittadini, delle risorse del pianeta e si realizzerebbe a costo zero!

Vi lasciamo con le parole di Antonio Galdo, autore del libro Non sprecare - Einaudi, 2008.  

"Lo spreco è la lucida follia del tempo contemporaneo. E’ la protervia dell’uomo opulento che non distingue più tra necessita’ e capriccio, tra essere e apparire. Ma lo spreco è anche il perno di un modello di sviluppo fondato solo su criteri quantitativi: piu’ produzione, piu’ consumi, piu’ benessere”.