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Outline:
1. Introduction
2. Causes the wastage of food in public events and restaurants.
3. Solution: Reduce the amount of food
4. Conclusion
Explanation:
Food loss and waste is a major part of the impact of agriculture on climate change and other environmental issues. Food production is resource-intensive, therefore food lost or wasted entails poor use of resources and will have negative environmental impacts. Reducing food loss and waste will improve resource use efficiency and lower greenhouse gas emissions per unit of food consumed because more food reaches the consumer for a given level of resources used.
There are the main causes of wastage of food in public events and restaurants. Common causes of food waste in restaurants include overbuying, overproduction, and some time public waste food because the shortage of brake time for lunch and spoilage. Overbuying is often a result of inadequate forecasting of consumer demand and the large quantities of food that restaurants typically need to purchase at one time. Certain preparation techniques (such as failing to get the most fruit off the rind) can also produce unnecessary waste. Additionally, when food is stored inadequately or is not utilized in a timely manner, spoilage can render it unfit for consumption. It happens because people often buy more than they need and the best countermeasure would be to cut down on portion sizes. Food waste is mainly a result of individuals ordering or purchasing too much food. Many people order extra when dining out to ensure they are not hungry at the end of the meal.
The solution is to reduce the amount of food people eat. A reinforcing cycle of over-eating by obese consumers can lead to greater food waste. People order or buy more than they need and stuff themselves at every meal. Over time, this becomes an ingrained habit and they purchase increasingly greater quantities of food, some of which will naturally go bad or be thrown out if they cannot finish it. A good counter-example to this practice would be in France, which is famed for smaller portion sizes. Food waste is dramatically lower in France simply because people eat modest meals and are therefore more likely to eat all their food. This could be replicated in other nations if governments reformed school meals and took other key steps.
In conclusion, food waste has deep psychological roots and the best solution is for individuals to reduce the size of their average meal. A shift like this will require a concerted effort from both ordinary citizens and health officials.
As a result of food loss during production, harvest, handling post-harvest, processing, distribution and consumption, 40% of food in Pakistan is wasted every year. This is translates to 36 million tonnes of food is wasted annually, and equivalent to every citizen of the three major cities in Pakistan throwing out two entire meals everyday.
The Global Hunger Index ranks Pakistan as a country with “serious” hunger level, and According to Pakistan's director of World Food Program (WFP), 43% of the country’s population remains in food insecurity, with 18% facing a severe shortage.
There are many factors that are responsible for instigating people to waste food. Food waste occurs most commonly at wedding ceremonies and in restaurants, 870 kilogram of food is reportedly wasted in a major hotel in Islamabad everyday. The causes of food wastage include but are not limited to:
- Expectation of more orders from customers in restaurants. This results in a staggering amount of food being cooked to cater to the needs of their customers, although more often than not the number of orders they receive fall short of their expectations. Consequently, perishable food items have to be relegated to the dumpster. This is unfortunate especially since this food could have been used to feed the impoverished sections of the society.
- Another cause of food waste occurs when restaurants and catering services stock huge amounts of grains and cereals, which ultimately end up getting disposed of when they reach their expiry date in a short period of time.
- People also order a lot more food than they can possibly eat while eating in restaurants. This also leads to wastage.
- Another cause of this problem is the obsession with celebrating even minor occasions in a grand manner. Oftentimes, such events serve multiple cuisines and cook enormous quantities of food without even bothering to check whether the number of invitees will be able to consume all of that.
The consequences of food wastage are numerous and dire, most notable among them are:
- Food wastage negatively impacts natural resources in terms of land and soil degradation. 3,500 litres of water is needed to produce the food a single person consumes each day; the use of fertilizers and pesticides, transportation fuel, and storage involves use of electricity, which all go to waste when food is wasted.
- In a recent report titled 'Council Global Food Security', the US National Intelligence says that declining food security will be a major instigator of social disruptions and political instability.
- An analysis by the WFP in a paper titled Food Insecurity and Violent Conflict, reveals that there is a link between food insecurity and conflict- both political and violent. The paper also stated that food insecurity is a “threat and multiplier for violent conflict”.
There are a number of options that can be used to mitigate food wastage, the most important being:
- awareness drives by restaurant and hotel chain owners to make people sensible of the downsides of ordering more food than they can consume.
- Creating a visual demonstration of the efforts that go into the preparation of various food items by restaurants to discourage people from wasting food.
- the government should form laws that prevent large shops from hoarding food items. Restaurants and citizens collaboratively can form a union where excess food is distributed to the needy. This movement would help in the overall development of society.
- subjecting food waste to anaerobic digestion to produce biogas.
In conclusion, food waste is a growing global problem, it happens because people often buy more than they need. The threats that food insecurity poses, especially in view of higher food prices, involves the risk of democratic breakdown, civil conflict, protest, rioting, and communal conflict.
People and restaurants should be cognizant or should be made cognizant of their wastage of food by government, and proper channels should be created to share excess food with the needy.
