The Global Food Waste Scandal

TED Sunday at West Hill

Watch Tristram Stuart’s 2012 TED Talk, The Global Food Waste Scandal”. Find and share inspiration, wisdom, challenge, and new perspectives… all within the warmth of the West Hill community.

“Tristram Stuart sounds the warning bell on global food waste, calling for us to change the systems whereby large quantities of produce and other foods end up in trash heaps.

Western countries throw out nearly half of their food, not because it’s inedible -- but because it doesn’t look appealing. Tristram Stuart delves into the shocking data of wasted food, calling for a more responsible use of global resources.

In 2011 Tristram Stuart won the international environmental Sophie Prize and the "Observer Food Monthly Outstanding Contribution Award" for his ongoing campaign to solve the global food waste scandal.” - TED.com

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MEET TRISTRAM STUART

“The winner of the international environmental award The Sophie Prize in 2011, Tristram is the founder of Feeding the 5000, a consciousness-raising campaign where 5000 members of the public are given a free lunch using only ingredients that otherwise would have been wasted. Held in Trafalgar Square in 2009 and 2011, the event has also been held internationally.

In addition, Tristram works with a range of NGOs, governments, and private enterprises to tackle the global food waste scandal.

In his newest book, Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal, Tristram shows how changing the systems that result in food waste could be one of the simplest ways to reduce pressure on the environment.” - TED.com

Quotes

"Waste is a resource in the wrong place." – Anonymous

"There is no such thing as 'away'. When we throw anything away, it must go somewhere." – Annie Leonard

“Hunger is not a problem. It is an obscenity. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” — Anne Frank

Readings

“Solid wastes are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an attitude of indifference toward valuable natural resources, but also a serious economic and public health problem."– Jimmy Carter

“Food is national security. Food is economy. It is employment, energy, history. Food is everything.” - Chef José Andrés, founder of the World Central Kitchen

“It is important for people to realize that we can make progress against world hunger, that world hunger is not hopeless. The worst enemy is apathy.” – Rev. David Beckmann