Wasting Away...

We go out to restaurants.  We order our food.  We pick at our food and eat what we want.  We get full and we leave what's left there on our plate as we walk away for the evening.  But what happens to the left over food?  That food that could so easily be a meal for someone else.  Naturally, and all too often, that food goes to waste in the garbage.  I'm guilty of it.  We're all guilty of it.  However, I personally have never realized the drastic impact that this 'simple' and innocent action could have on this world and it's economy.

According to a report from France International News, "One third of the food produced worldwide is wasted, costing the global economy around $750 billion a year..."  This 'one third' of food is also equivalent to 1.3 billion tons that is turned to garbage.  When we put this into perspective, the drastic effect this will have in the future is devastating.  For example:

1. “870 million people go hungry every day” - With the human population climbing rapidly, and when there are already so many who go hungry every day, the numbers are all increasing but not adding up in a smart, economical way.  There is concern on how we will feed ourselves in the future.

2. “Each year, food that is produced but not eaten "guzzles up a volume of water equivalent to the annual flow of Russia's Volga River…” - There is already the problem of our diminishing water supply and here we find that we’re wasting so much of it in an effort to feed ourselves!  This proves that these wasteful habits are a huge contributor to more than one economic complication.

http://www.france24.com/en/20130911-third-food-wasted-costs-world-economy-750bn-un