More Food Wasted Than Eaten

A peach farm throws away up to 70% of their years harvest due to markings from growing. There are so many peaches wasted, the company struggles to find people with enough space to take the produce. Even after giving the peaches to local shelters and companies who would benefit, there is still a great amount of food wasted. A young couple, in hopes to reduce the amount of food they waste, lived off of packaged food thrown away from expiration dates or other reasons. In the process, they found themselves running out of storage space for food that nobody else wanted or that was a little past company listed expiration dates.

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There are so many amazing new methods used for growing more food with higher harvest rates and to see most of it being thrown away is unsettleing. Food is being wasted for reasons as small as a mark on a peach. Realistically, an increase in farm land needed is not entirely due to population growth, but from the necessity of perfect produce for sellers. To see dumpsters filled to the top of items that are still fresh and edible is ridiculous. Food waste is inevitable, but the produce can be turned into a big composting project or fed to livestock. We can put the food back into the cyle so it can continue to benefit humanity. 

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  1. AnonymousFebruary 16, 2021 at 6:36 PM

    It would be beneficial to lower the amount of crops like this produced. Less food would be wasted, and the farmers could actually make more money. With a surplus, the demand is low and so is the price. In order to raise demand, there has to be less crops. Also, this is something everyone needs to work on. Only buy the food you need, and plan it out to be more productive.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 24, 2021 at 9:27 PM

    I agree with Izzy's comment. I think that we should try to limit the production of certain crops if we know they will be overproduced. I think they should try harder to also donate to more people in need, because there are still so many people around the world that do not have enough food to supply for their families. Wasting this much is a mistake and they should donate to a wider reach of people and places.

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