That's it with snobish ways to eating sustainibly! Finished.
No more vegetarians, vegans or organic people, my new personal heroes of food awareness are the freegetarians.
Being freegetarians basically means belonging to a movement of people that forage through store's bins at night (or early morning) and many times are lucky enough to end up with a free (delicious) lunch.
To this movement belongs the most different range of people ever: from elder people that struggle with benefits, to students, to convinced environmentalists that sustain food recycling and try to make a point against big chains and supermarket disposing food that has not really expired.
a few facts are:
- Europe and the U.s. have as double as food they need
- in the Uk, 25% of bought food gets wasted (results: 20 million tons of waste a year)
- 80% of Uk population are not clear about the difference between "best-before", "use-by" and "display until"
- sadly enough, there are 1 billion malnourished people in the world: the 40 million tons of food wasted in the Us would be enough to feed them.
mumble, mumble,
time to start thinking.
courtesy of Metro, wed, 4th, 2011.
