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The book I chose to read for the semester is called Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal. This book is about discovering the truth behind the global food crisis. It discusses how people are throwing away thousands of pounds of food every year which could feed the entire starving world. It also discusses how farmers are waste almost half of their crops every year because they do not have the sufficient devices or structures to hold and keep their products from rotting and becoming unsellable and unedible.
I chose this book because this topic of food waste is very interesting to me. I do not know much about the world's food supply and how much we do waste or better yet how to make changes to help avoid this, so I feel that reading this book will teach me a lot. I think this book will open me up to a whole new sense about the world and how I deal with everyday situations involving food which is very exciting to me.
- Below are three links that you can click to find more information about this book:Book Review: http://sacramentobookreview.com/science_nature/waste-uncovering-the-global-food-scandal/
This book has 451 pages and 18 chapters so I will split it up by reading about 112 pages for each quarter.
Dani,
ReplyDeleteThis book looks very interesting. A lot of people don't realize how much food we do waste. Its hard to witness especially when we have starving people all over the world. I look forward to hearing more on this book.
I think your book is going to be interesting. It is very important that people would learn how to not waste food because people in some countries are starving. I am looking forward to reading more about your book.
ReplyDeleteI cannot wait to hear what you learn from your reading! I am constantly hearing from people that we need more food and whatnot, however, I have also heard that people are starving not to lack of food in the world, but by poor food distribution. I hope the book informs you of how food distribution is decided and if there are programs being set up to reduce product waste and figure out how we may use old food instead of simply throwing it away.
ReplyDeleteDani,
ReplyDeleteThis book looks very interesting. It is an issue that all of us have. When you were a child growing up and you didn't want to eat your vegetables and your parents told you "there are starving children in africa that would die for your vegetables" to guilt you into eating them rather than throwing them away. In America we waste so much more than we realize. Like the activity we did in class today, we wasted squares just because we had others ones to stand in. We all need to become more aware and only take as much as we need or in this case "eat".
This book seems like it will be a good read. I am looking forward to hearing more about it as the semester goes on. It has always been bothersome to me when people are wasteful and it will be interesting to learn more bout wasting food and hopefully some of the things that can be done to help prevent this!
ReplyDeleteMy mom used to always say, "Think about the starving kids in Africa when you throw away food!" I used to always make too much food, and then end up throwing so much of it away. I am excited to hear what your book has to say about wasting food!
ReplyDeleteWow this topic is very interesting and I am excited to learn really how wasteful we are with our food. Pretty upsetting that we could feed the starving with what we overlook
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