Rigo - Blog Post 3

To whom it may concern there has been an ongoing problem with food in america that affects the entire nation and its people. The problem that has been going on is the mass food waste that happens everyday in every certain location. There is restaurants that waste food knowing that they can give it out to the homeless people or the families in needs that are starving day by day. I know this sound like a hard task to do for these types of restaurants but it really isn’t it all starts off by one person taking initiative and decide that a change needs to happen to reduce the lost of food. I can say this with confidence because I have done it myself multiple times, when I use to work at Subway the one at Legends Mall I use to rack up the leftover bread in a large bag and give it away to people that really needed it. Not only that but there will be times where the food was about to hit its expiration date so what I would decide to do is use that food and make something out of it even if I had to pay for it. Also throughout my years working at Qdoba there has been cases where plenty of food is being thrown to waste because they can keep if its a day old. So what I did is make bowls or just take the leftover food and notify my family to not eat because i’m bringing food from work. Simple task like these could really help out on reducing food waste all over the nation, it starts by one person then it will be followed by others. There has been facts stated by the USDA that the first ever food-lost and waste goal was launched to reduce food but before that was launched in 2010 they calculated approximately 31 percent of food loss comes from retail and consumer levels. This ended up being about 133 billion pounds of food lost which accumulated to be $161 billion worth of food. That is the amount of food that could end starvation on a wide scale also all that money being wasted could have been used to build schools or help people in need. Also on the article Why Americans Lead the World In Food Waste they stated that “roughly 50 percent of all produce in the United States is thrown away—some 60 million tons” Now that is 50 percent that could be easily saved by people and food companies.This all has to do with estimating how much food needs to be made throughout the day or how much food the person thinks they can intake before throwing away a whole meal. I always tell myself that I am only getting the amount of food I think I can intake because in my opinion wasting food is just horrible to me. It is time all americans realize that there is a major problem of food waste that can be easily solved if we all put in our effort together, this could end starvations and also save money for it can go to other things we need.

Sincerely,

Rigo cardenas