Chinese Food Coupon System: Personal Statement

The USDA claims that each year, 25.9 million tons of America’s food is thrown away, the equivalent to a quarter of the total amount produced. Nationally, the wasted food is a damaging financial setback, amounting to $1 billion just to get rid of during a time of ascending food prices, nonetheless (Oliver, 2007). Food waste has skyrocketed since 1970 at an astonishing 50% increase rate, yet according to the FAO, one-sixth of America doesn’t get enough to eat.

About fifty million Americans are not certain when their next meal will be and in a society filled with food insecurities, the fact there this so much food waste is perplexing (King, 2015). Around the world, about two billion tons of food is wasted through production, transportation, distribution and retail, and post consumer (Glickman 2013). This amount of food

Recently, a local food bank approached Q regarding donating its day-old products. Q declined, deciding instead to continue to throw away the product, as they thought there could be fraud amongst employees with the disposition of the food. Being involved in the community and enhancing brand reputation need to be at the forefront of Q’s business plan. The choice to disregard the food banks request could be detrimental to Q’s customers' views of the company. Instead, any concerns of food dispositions can be carefully monitored with minimal costs, by implementing an inventory control program for the goods identified for donations. These processes can become an integral part of Q’s new Loss Prevention program outlined above.

The author further convinces the reader of the negative economic impact that convenience foods have by providing a chart from the NSW environment protection authority which provides that each year in just one state the cost of processed food waste is approximately $360 million is wasted on packaged food, $240 million on frozen food and $170 million on takeaway. In contrast of this the author communicates that if people grew their own food they would value it too much and hence there would be no waste.

Not only are we wasting time, but we are remaining silent and still, while watching the quality of life crumbling. The food and eating habits, are the direct victims; the ingredients, quality and the provenance not printed or hidden on labels is the fraud that we are paying for. Consequently, for the agenda that creates the deterioration of the products affect us at least twice: First for the overall quality and the price increase that’s justified through the packaging that is in most cases is cause of pollution and works at his best for the disguising what we should be aware of. As a secondary cause I can bring forward the possibility of needing medical attention. Adding a third one is the crime that rates as the worst deprivation of humanity’s property, found in drinking

The food industry has a large impact on individuals and will affect wider communities in the future. The rush of today’s society has pushed food production to become more commercialized with prepackaged/premade based foods. For numerous reasons such as time, work and costs of living, people are wanting meals that are cheap, fast, easy and don’t require much effort. This is due to many obligations and priorities in life that are put above

The basic survival needs of human beings include a small list of four things: food, water, clothing, and shelter. After watching an interview with Robert Kenner, the director of Food, Inc., I began to realize that the food humans are eating is actually decreasing are survivability. Within the excerpts from the movie and the dialogue amongst the interviewers, it was made apparent that the food industry has been able to completely deceive the consumers. Instead of choosing food for quality, individuals choose food by lowest price. As Kenner said in the video, “we have skewed our food system to the bad calories” (2:38). Instead of healthy home cooked meals, families are purchasing fast food for its convenience and low cost. However, the video made a very interesting stance in regards to this mentality. Although individuals are paying the lowest price for food in history, the cost of treating diseases caused by unhealthy eating has grown to be higher than ever before (8:04).

Everyday, throughout the world, restaurants throw away large amounts of uneaten food. Public Health laws prevent them from re-serving or reusing this food, and, for similar reasons, they cannot simply give it away to hungry people. We opted to review this as our messy situation due to the impact that this has on people and the environment.

Although supermarkets could offer a computer system to help buyers see how much they ACTUALLY need. They could put in how long they’re going to have the food and it could tell them when the food will expire. Usually when buying food, you either buy too much having to throw the food away. It really depends on family size, eating habits, etc. The computer system could help families guesstimate how much food is needed in their household. That way they also don’t spend more money than they have to.

Cheryl’s Cookies is a famous cookie store in Columbus, Ohio. The store was started in 1981, when it sold six kinds of cookies, along with soda pop. Within just seven years, the company’s range of products expanded to include gifts and desserts. Cheryl’s produces a variety of desserts that are distributed through different channels such as retail, on the Internet, through catalogs and even B2B gift services. Their range of dessert include cookies, brownies, pretzels fudge cake and an array of other seasonal products. All these items can be purchased in either gift boxes, towers, trays or tins that are themed to match various special occasions such as birthdays and anniversaries.

We live in an age in which we have come to expect everything to be instantaneously at our fingertips. We live in an age of instant coffee, instant tea, and even instant mashed potatoes. We can walk down the street at 5 in the morning and get a gallon of milk or even a weeks worth of groceries at our discretion. Even though it is great that food is now readily available at all times, this convenience comes at a price, for both the producer and the consumer. Farmers are cheated out of money and are slaves to big business, workers and animals are mistreated. And, because food now comes at a low cost, it has become cheaper quality and therefore potentially dangerous to the consumer’s health. These problems surrounding the ethics and the

Wasting food is a bad habit that affects all of society and we continue to implicate ourselves in the problem. Of the total of food loss that is going on about 40 percent is in the household. Overall a typical household of four loses about 600 dollars in food a year. (Jones 11)

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), food wastage, “food produced and not eaten,” emits enough greenhouse gasses (GHG) to be ranked third amongst global emitters (FAO 2013, 6). In New York City (NYC) it is estimated that businesses “produce more than 650,000 tons of food waste annually” (Turso 2017). This specific food waste is classified as food scrap, cooked food which is still edible, but no longer useful to the business due to a myriad of reasons. Whatever the reason may be for the company, this tonnage of food has the potential and possibility of being recovered for redistribution to food banks, soup kitchens, and other food rescue organizations. For example, two of the largest organizations in NYC, City Harvest and Food Bank NYC, will collect around 59 million and 24 million pounds in 2017 respectively, of unprocessed/non-perishable food. This is equivalent to about 42 thousand tons or 6.5 percent of annual food waste from scraps. Despite having warehouses, fleets of vehicles, and numerous volunteers, two of the largest organizations barely make an impact on the total amount of food rescued versus food wasted.

In America, we are constantly surrounded by abundance. Food is a prevalent waste item in the United States. Most people do not think about the resources it took to produce, transport, and prepare the food they throw away. Our food waste is not actually just trash; it is the key to human survival. Ordinary consumers can change the future with one small action: to stop wasting food. Actions at the individual level can decrease food waste and feed those in need. Twenty five percent of purchased food is thrown away. (TED) Often this is because food has spoiled, but it can be for other reasons such as oversupply, misread labels, or individual consumer shopping and eating habits. http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3347e/i3347e.pdf

After that, she will examine Hong Kong local residents’ acceptability to 759 STORE for one year, review and also fine tune its operations, reorganize store locations, and adjust designs of some stores. If 759 STORE is identified to be accepted by Hong Kong local residents, the Group will open 60 new branches per year, 120 branches in total in the following 2 years.