{"id":1523,"date":"2013-01-15T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2013-01-13T05:50:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T05:50:46","slug":"almost-half-of-the-worlds-food-is-thrown-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/2013\/01\/almost-half-of-the-worlds-food-is-thrown-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost Half of the World’s Food is Thrown Away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Remember when your mother told you to clean your plate since there were starving people in the world? Apparently, not too many people are following her advice. As much as half of all the food produced in the world\u2014equivalent to 2 billion tons\u2014ends up as waste every year<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The UK\u2019s Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) blames the \u201cstaggering\u201d new figures in its analysis on unnecessarily strict sell-by dates, buy-one-get-one free and Western consumer demand for cosmetically perfect food, along with \u201cpoor engineering and agricultural practices\u201d, inadequate infrastructure and poor storage facilities.<\/p>\n

In the face of United Nations predictions that there could be about an extra 3 billion people to feed by the end of the century and growing pressure on the resources needed to produce food, including land, water and energy, the IMechE is calling for urgent action to tackle this waste.<\/p>\n

Their report, Global Food; Waste Not, Want Not, found that between 30% and 50% or 1.2-2bn tonnes of food produced around the world never makes it on to a plate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember when your mother told you to clean your plate since there were starving people in the world? Apparently, not too many people are following her advice. As much as half of all the food produced in the world\u2014equivalent to 2 billion tons\u2014ends up as waste every year: The UK\u2019s Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"\nAlmost Half of the World's Food is Thrown Away<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Remember when your mother told you to clean your plate since there were starving people in the world? Apparently, not too many people are following her\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/2013\/01\/almost-half-of-the-worlds-food-is-thrown-away\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Almost Half of the World's Food is Thrown Away\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Remember when your mother told you to clean your plate since there were starving people in the world? Apparently, not too many people are following her\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/2013\/01\/almost-half-of-the-worlds-food-is-thrown-away\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Joe Carter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-01-15T15:00:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-01-13T05:50:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/files\/2013\/01\/food-waste.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Joe Carter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Joe Carter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/2013\/01\/almost-half-of-the-worlds-food-is-thrown-away\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/2013\/01\/almost-half-of-the-worlds-food-is-thrown-away\/\",\"name\":\"Almost Half of the World's Food is Thrown Away\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-01-15T15:00:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-01-13T05:50:46+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/#\/schema\/person\/a1e7d33ba803146cf80021b9fbb6de9a\"},\"description\":\"Remember when your mother told you to clean your plate since there were starving people in the world? Apparently, not too many people are following her\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/2013\/01\/almost-half-of-the-worlds-food-is-thrown-away\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/2013\/01\/almost-half-of-the-worlds-food-is-thrown-away\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/2013\/01\/almost-half-of-the-worlds-food-is-thrown-away\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Almost Half of the World’s Food is Thrown Away\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/\",\"name\":\"Joe Carter\",\"description\":\"Culture | Religion | Politics\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/#\/schema\/person\/a1e7d33ba803146cf80021b9fbb6de9a\",\"name\":\"Joe Carter\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/143f1058baa62aff2caae683b130c4ca?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/143f1058baa62aff2caae683b130c4ca?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Joe Carter\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/author\/jcarter\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Almost Half of the World's Food is Thrown Away","description":"Remember when your mother told you to clean your plate since there were starving people in the world? Apparently, not too many people are following her","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/2013\/01\/almost-half-of-the-worlds-food-is-thrown-away\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Almost Half of the World's Food is Thrown Away","og_description":"Remember when your mother told you to clean your plate since there were starving people in the world? Apparently, not too many people are following her","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/2013\/01\/almost-half-of-the-worlds-food-is-thrown-away\/","og_site_name":"Joe Carter","article_published_time":"2013-01-15T15:00:30+00:00","article_modified_time":"2013-01-13T05:50:46+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/files\/2013\/01\/food-waste.jpg"}],"author":"Joe Carter","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Joe Carter","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/2013\/01\/almost-half-of-the-worlds-food-is-thrown-away\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/2013\/01\/almost-half-of-the-worlds-food-is-thrown-away\/","name":"Almost Half of the World's Food is Thrown Away","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/#website"},"datePublished":"2013-01-15T15:00:30+00:00","dateModified":"2013-01-13T05:50:46+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/#\/schema\/person\/a1e7d33ba803146cf80021b9fbb6de9a"},"description":"Remember when your mother told you to clean your plate since there were starving people in the world? Apparently, not too many people are following her","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/2013\/01\/almost-half-of-the-worlds-food-is-thrown-away\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/2013\/01\/almost-half-of-the-worlds-food-is-thrown-away\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/2013\/01\/almost-half-of-the-worlds-food-is-thrown-away\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Almost Half of the World’s Food is Thrown Away"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/","name":"Joe Carter","description":"Culture | Religion | Politics","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/#\/schema\/person\/a1e7d33ba803146cf80021b9fbb6de9a","name":"Joe Carter","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/143f1058baa62aff2caae683b130c4ca?s=96&d=blank&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/143f1058baa62aff2caae683b130c4ca?s=96&d=blank&r=g","caption":"Joe Carter"},"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/author\/jcarter\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/joecarter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}