6 Minute English - Food Waste
Now, you like food, don't you.
Yes, I do.
But how much food have you actually throw away? Probably too much or trying to get back, Rob.
Very good. I'm asking you this because many people around the world throw away food that still good enough to eat. This food waste could feed million of people. That's what we're talking about today. As well as looking about some vocabulary.
Yes, food waste is a big problem. So we stock up from food we don't really need and we often tempt to supermarket to consume or eat more.
Before we talk more about this, let's find out what your know about food waste. So do you know according to United Nation Food Agriculture Organization, what percentage of food is actually wasted? Is it:
a) 25 percent
b) 33 percent
c) 50 percent
50 percent.
Well, we'll find out if you're right or wrong later on. But now, here is another figure for you. In Europe, people throw away a hundred million tons of food every year.
Wow, such a waste. Most of this food just ends up rotting in land field site. And that adds to another problem. It creates green house gases.
It does, Finn. But the problem is just us. Throwing away left over frage or cover, as we can hear now from BBC reporter XXXX, What's the other reason leads the food to waste.
Typically supermarket demands that an interbred two to two inter cotter in diameter. This one will be pretty close to it. But this one is too small although it is perfectly edible. The question is what happens to it then. Food waste is a huge issue in American. 40 percent of our food waste goes unneeded. It's probably the start long before you get in dining room table.
Yes, another staggering figure, Rob. 40 percent of all food in America goes uneaten. It doesn't get eaten. And she explained the supermarket are hardly to blame.
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Yes, we all love the convenience the price, the choice of food that supermarket offer. But lot of food is been thrown out long before it reaches the shows.
Yes, and the reporter gave the example of onions, if they were wrong size, they can't be sold. They are thrown away even through they are good enough to eat or edible.
There are many other types of foods and vegetables discarded or thrown away because of the shape and size. And that's awful really. Because we often think food, they looks good, is better quality.
And another issue is the sell-by and use by date printed on food package. They confuse customers. And thing older then the sell-by date makes the thing old and food has gone off. But in fact, this is just the date supermarket wants to sell by.
And there is another reason why some of this coach buy too much foods. Having listen to worker in XXX, about her shopping habit and see if she can hear what the problem is. Also see if you can hear what she does to try and minimize food waste.
I try very hard to meet a plan because as a free mom, I have a busy family. I really try to make sure that if there is food to this week. I find it is difficult to work past to one of this physics one thing. And even hard to find plus one hour when I have to.
So she is a busy working mom and she tries to meal plan. She plans the family's meal for the week and works out what's by. But she still get tempted to by the two for one offers.
That's what you buy one item and you get another one of the same item for free.
Yes, we call it buy one get one free or as sometimes known BOGOF.
You can get it bargain but it also means we sometimes buy too much of something. If it is fresh produced, it might go off before you use it all.
But in other part of the world, people struggle to buy even most basic food. A report by UN Food &Agriculture Organization, found if there is not food for everyone, just lot of inefficiency. So what can be done?
Well things are be done. Apps and websites, the distribute access food are becoming more popular. And food bank has been set up too. These are charity organization people donate food too. It then distributed to those who have difficulty buy their own food. And one trial project in New York requires the city's restaurant to stop sending food waste to land field by 2015. But at the moment, globally there is still a lot of food being thrown away. And Finn I ask you how much. Is it 25%, 33% or 50% of all food produced.
I said half. I said 50%. Is it as bad as it, Rob?
Yes, I do.
But how much food have you actually throw away? Probably too much or trying to get back, Rob.
Very good. I'm asking you this because many people around the world throw away food that still good enough to eat. This food waste could feed million of people. That's what we're talking about today. As well as looking about some vocabulary.
Yes, food waste is a big problem. So we stock up from food we don't really need and we often tempt to supermarket to consume or eat more.
Before we talk more about this, let's find out what your know about food waste. So do you know according to United Nation Food Agriculture Organization, what percentage of food is actually wasted? Is it:
a) 25 percent
b) 33 percent
c) 50 percent
50 percent.
Well, we'll find out if you're right or wrong later on. But now, here is another figure for you. In Europe, people throw away a hundred million tons of food every year.
Wow, such a waste. Most of this food just ends up rotting in land field site. And that adds to another problem. It creates green house gases.
It does, Finn. But the problem is just us. Throwing away left over frage or cover, as we can hear now from BBC reporter XXXX, What's the other reason leads the food to waste.
Typically supermarket demands that an interbred two to two inter cotter in diameter. This one will be pretty close to it. But this one is too small although it is perfectly edible. The question is what happens to it then. Food waste is a huge issue in American. 40 percent of our food waste goes unneeded. It's probably the start long before you get in dining room table.
Yes, another staggering figure, Rob. 40 percent of all food in America goes uneaten. It doesn't get eaten. And she explained the supermarket are hardly to blame.
`
Yes, we all love the convenience the price, the choice of food that supermarket offer. But lot of food is been thrown out long before it reaches the shows.
Yes, and the reporter gave the example of onions, if they were wrong size, they can't be sold. They are thrown away even through they are good enough to eat or edible.
There are many other types of foods and vegetables discarded or thrown away because of the shape and size. And that's awful really. Because we often think food, they looks good, is better quality.
And another issue is the sell-by and use by date printed on food package. They confuse customers. And thing older then the sell-by date makes the thing old and food has gone off. But in fact, this is just the date supermarket wants to sell by.
And there is another reason why some of this coach buy too much foods. Having listen to worker in XXX, about her shopping habit and see if she can hear what the problem is. Also see if you can hear what she does to try and minimize food waste.
I try very hard to meet a plan because as a free mom, I have a busy family. I really try to make sure that if there is food to this week. I find it is difficult to work past to one of this physics one thing. And even hard to find plus one hour when I have to.
So she is a busy working mom and she tries to meal plan. She plans the family's meal for the week and works out what's by. But she still get tempted to by the two for one offers.
That's what you buy one item and you get another one of the same item for free.
Yes, we call it buy one get one free or as sometimes known BOGOF.
You can get it bargain but it also means we sometimes buy too much of something. If it is fresh produced, it might go off before you use it all.
But in other part of the world, people struggle to buy even most basic food. A report by UN Food &Agriculture Organization, found if there is not food for everyone, just lot of inefficiency. So what can be done?
Well things are be done. Apps and websites, the distribute access food are becoming more popular. And food bank has been set up too. These are charity organization people donate food too. It then distributed to those who have difficulty buy their own food. And one trial project in New York requires the city's restaurant to stop sending food waste to land field by 2015. But at the moment, globally there is still a lot of food being thrown away. And Finn I ask you how much. Is it 25%, 33% or 50% of all food produced.
I said half. I said 50%. Is it as bad as it, Rob?
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