FOODISFOREATING

Food is the result of a long journey, from the farmer to our homes. This journey - the supply chain - uses enormous quantities of the Earth's resources. At our dinner table we enjoy the miracle. Tradition and good cooking produce taste, nourishment, joy, passion, life. Yet we throw away so much of our food! Loads of it! And with it we throw away all the precious resources that are key to producing it... We demand more and more from the planet, in order to produce more and more, in order to waste more and more. Our natural resources are limited, yet we are using them at a greater rate than Mother Nature can regenerate them, and a large part is devoted to producing food that does not even reach our stomachs... The food produced but wasted globally every year requires 1.4 billion hectares of land, which is close to 30% of the world agricultural land area.