Food Circumstance: Throwaway Food

Recently, the price of food has gone up more and more. However, the restaurants, and convenience stores in Japan throws away a large amount of foods every day. There are a lot of people who starve with hunger in the world.

I was taking the class of "Global environment theory" and I studied about food problem. Now, Japan relies on imports from foreign countries. Do you know how many tons foods Japan import? It is 58 million tons a year. However, 19.4 million tons foods are thrown away a year. In other words, one-third of the imported foods are thrown away. Today, 7.4 million tons foods are food aid, but Japan throws away about 3 times as much as food aid.

I think Japanese food company product foods too much, so I think Japanese company should product correspond to demand. The other my idea is that introduce food rejection tax. If adopted this system, we could reduce loss of imported foods and thrown away foods. The next idea is discount. If the supermarkets discounted, sales is more grow up and reduce the food which is throw away.

Then, what can we do this problem? In fact 58 million tons include domestic rejection. I think we shouldn’t throw away food which was out of date. I checked about “Best Before Date” on the internet. The Web site told me if best before date was little over, the food could eat! Best Before Date is the recommendation of time that products can be stored, during which the defined quality of a specified proportion of the goods remains acceptable under expected (or specified) conditions of distribution, storage and display. Most of these labels do not guarantee the safety of food and should be used more as a guide. I think we devise daily food a little, we can reduce thrown away foods.