Food and water wasting and distribution is the issue I have decided to investigate.

Food waste is an enormous problem world wide, as well as it's distribution. The way food is distributed is not good. The producers of food get less of it and all the other places get much more than them. Another reason why some places have less food is because the more poor countries cannot afford the amounts of food like the richer countries. Also the amount of wasted food seems like an exaggeration, but sadly it is true. According to a CNN article by Rachel Oliver, the US could feed all the hungry people in Africa with just 5% of it's wasted food. This article also states that the US throws away about 25.9 million tons of the food it makes annually. As people waste food in one place, there are people dying of hunger in other places. Also in this article is stated that the wasted food in Italy could feed hungry Ethiopians. The reason I believe people all over the world do not realize that wasting food is very bad, is because they have never experienced hunger. Also because they have never lived in a place where food is well distributed. I think that if everyone who wastes food could get just a tiny taste of the hunger that 15 million children die of annually, food would not be wasted nearly as much as it is now. Besides the way food is distributed and how much of it is wasted, food waste releases a gas called methane. This gas is very bad for the environment because it absorbs a lot of heat from the Earth. So, the more we waste food and add on to the enormous pile of wasted food, the more careless people seem and the warmer the Earth gets. The amount of water wasted in the world is astonishing. Some of the ways water is wasted are truly pathetic. For example, leaving the water on while you brush your teeth, taking really long showers with the water running the whole time, and letting the water run to get hot water. There are various areas of the world where there is either a very small amount of water or the water they have is not good enough for them to drink it. Food and water issues are both international problems and need every one's help and cooperation to solve them. If everyone put in a little bit of their part their would be less deaths due to starvation. A way in which people everywhere could stop the waste of food, is if restaurants around the world begin to charge for every pound of food wasted. This would help because people would not want to pay for something extra that they are not using. Another way to cut down on the amount of food being wasted is by only buying the amount of food that you are actually going to eat. According to an article on Mail Online, another way governments around the world should help this is by making people put food into food recycling bins. If they do not obey this then they must pay a fine. A way for everyone to waste less water is by the government finding a way to only give us the amount of water that we need because commercials and videos obviously do not help. Another way is to charge more for water because people do not understand and do not realize how bad it is to waste water.


When you are about to waste food, I hope you feel guilty and think about all the children dying of starvation.

Hunger is a big deal.
DON'T WASTE FOOD WHILE OTHERS STARVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Turn the water off while you brush your teeth!! :)

Food recycle bins in Europe.


Other helpful sources: This source helped me to see the different "reasons'' people waste food.
This source helped me as well.