Speech On Waste Of Food

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1. Introduction
George Bernard Shaw said that “There is no sincerer love than the love of food”. It is true in every period of time because everyone loves eating. Moreover, without food, howcan we live? Although food plays an important role in our daily lives and love for food is a sincere love, food waste is a burning problem in almost countries all over the world. In particularly, The FAO estimates that every year, the consumtion of food that is thrown away generates “3.3 billion tons of greenhouse gas” and uses up to “1.4 billion hectares of land – 28 per cent of the world’s agricultural area”.John Oliver on Last week tonight TV indicated that $165 billion worth of food is put away every year which costs about 20 pounds per person every month. Combining with another food waste every year of America could fill 730 football stadiums.Statistics show that 20% of food in Australia is abandoned each month,11 million tons of cerealis failed in India every year, and parts of Vietnam discard as much as 80% of the rice harvest” But, the problem of food waste in France
France is on the top of the most country wasting food. According to a report by the Agency for Environment and Energy (ADEME) published in 2007, France wasted each year 1.2 million tons of food each year. Estimated that average each Frenchman squandered 20-30 kg food a year, of which 7 kg is still closed with packaging materials. But these bad habits have increased the amount of food waste in France by 4 times. The report submitted to the Ministry of Environment in 2012, said more than 7 million tons of food was trashed, in 2010. As the result, France lost 12 – 20 billion a year, which is not a small figure. So how does France challenges with food waste? The aim of this paper is to identify some potential solutions of France to

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