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50% of the foods that are produced every year are never eaten
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Food goes to trash while millions starve,
The food waste ends up also causing the overuse of other scarce resources such as water.
Hunger is now a major world problem: about three billion people - representing nearly half the world's population - suffer from food insecurity, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), reporting that even that number, unfortunately, does not stop growing.
And the worst part is that the food that could feed most of these people exists and is being discarded every day, in the trash.
Food waste also causes overuse of other resources that are already in short supply, such as water and energy. According to the British report, currently around 550 billion cubic meters of water are wasted every year in the production of food that goes to waste.
And the situation could get even worse if we do not rethink how we are are consuming foods: According to the study, by 2050, water use worldwide will reach 13 trillion m³ / year, mainly due to the demand for food production.
[link to english.pravda.ru]
Each person who is aware of that should do their part to waste less food.
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