1. 食物浪费的现状
据报道,中国每年浪费的食物足以养活2亿人。
It was reported that the amount of food wasted in China was enough to feed 200 million people a year.
在整个美国,美国人所购食物的四分之一最终会被扔进垃圾桶。
Across the country, about 40% of all the food Americans buy ends up in the trash
全国有数百万家庭吃不饱,与此同时还有数百万吨食物被扔进垃圾箱,食物浪费愈发成为一个严重的环境和经济问题。
With millions of households across the country struggling to have enough to eat, and millions of tons of food being tossed in the garbage, food waste is increasingly being seen as a serious environmental and economic issue. (New York Times, 2015.2.25)
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2. 浪费食物引发的问题
浪费食物等于浪费了生产和运输食物的资源;
全球约有70%的淡水资源用于农业生产,浪费食物相当于浪费了大量的水资源,将加剧愈发严峻的水资源短缺挑战。
Resources used to grow and transport food are squandered when veggies remain uneaten. 70% of the freshwater in the world are used in agricultural production.
浪费食物产生的厨余垃圾,如果处理不当,对环境和人类健康有极大地危害。
浪费食物造成的温室气体排放约占全球温室气体排放量的8%。
Globally, it creates 3.3 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases annually, about 7% of the total emissions.
3. 现阶段社会各界针对食物浪费做出的反应
抖音、快手等各大短视频平台对吃播限流,整治假吃、催吐的“大胃王吃播”
暴饮暴食 excessive eating and drinking
假吃、催吐的“大胃王吃播” a big eating show that features fake eating and vomiting
整治吃播rectify livestreaming eating show
饿了么、美团等外卖平台推出半份菜计划
外卖平台 food delivery platform
半份菜 a half-dish plan
倡议书 a proposal
减少食物浪费的行动 the campaign to eliminate food waste
“N-1”点餐规定 “N-1” ordering code
培养个人健康的饮食习惯和节约粮食的理念
培养新的饮食习惯 cultivate new eating habits
谁知盘中餐,粒粒皆辛苦
Who knows the rice that feeds is the fruit of hard toil!
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