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Food Waste By Tristram Stuart

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Choice Tristram Stuart, a famous English author and campaigner, once said, “We are wasting our land to grow food that no one eats.” In other words, the author means that we are growing food which is becoming a waste. This is the result of society’s overconsumption. In Karim Chronbog’s presentation “Food Waste”, he talks about how Americans are wasting so much food that their waste can feed so many hungry people around the world. Chronbog reveals that forty percent of the food is not even eaten. He pointed out feeding those people who die every day hungry. Chronbog focused on the ways trying to save food. He showed us the life style of South Korean people where they eat by thinking about poor people. Their restaurants charge people if they leave food. Similarly this quote perfectly describes the eating style of Americans, “Why do we have so much, others have nothing.” We consume more because we desire for more not that we need it. We want to be equal to others who spend their good amount of money on consumerism. When buying groceries on Sundays we buy so much every time and think that we will store it. But food gets rotten and ends up in garbage. Working in a grocery store, I see every day customers saying that they have bought a lot than they need. Even it happens in my own home, so many things get rotten and I have to throw them. By looking at the concept of consumerism making food waste a problem, I totally agree that consumerism in American culture has made

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