Foods and Nutrition 1021 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Dukkha, Food Security, Breastfeeding
20 Apr 2017
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In the us, 40-50% of all food ready for harvest never gets eaten: of the food that does eventually reach households, around 14% is wasted (about billion wasted) If food reaching supermarkets, restaurants, and cafeterias, is added to the household figure, that wastage goes up by 27: the impact of this waste is not just financial. Threats to world food production: hunger, poverty, & population growth, loss of food-producing land, accelerating fossil fuel use. Increasing air pollution: atmosphere & climate changes, glacier retreat, decreasing arctic ice cover, droughts, & floods, ozone loss from the outer atmosphere, water shortages, deforestation & desertification, ocean pollution, extinction of species. Canadian households: the proportion was greater for children living in single parent households. Households most at risk: one-parent families with one or more young children, those on social assistance, aboriginal people living on reserves.
