{"id":716,"date":"2017-08-10T12:55:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T12:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/?p=716"},"modified":"2017-08-10T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T12:55:08","slug":"blog-post-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/blog-post-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to reach back to a few weeks ago to remember what lesson 5 was about and then I remembered the Ted Talk by Tristram Stuart titled the Global food Waste Scandal. During his talk he put in perspective the amount of food that we actually do waste. I always knew that we wasted food as a country, but for some reason I thought other countries weren\u2019t nearly as bad as us. Poor and rich countries alike waste food on a terrible scale. This reminded me of my first teenage job. I used to work at a grocery store, we used to throw away unsold deli items, seafood, produce etc.Then,\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t aware of the implications, I was simply doing my job. As an adult, while spending time in Afghanistan, I was tasked for a week with cleaning the chow hall. We had to throw all of the uneaten food away, when there are literally starving families right outside of the compound that I worked in. This time I was more aware of the implications, but because of my position, I was not allowed to do anything about it. Basically, we need to stop wasting food, and dispose of it properly, and start eating those weird shaped apples and oranges, instead of throwing them away. Imagine how much food we could save&#8230;or at the very least, feed it to the pigs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-717\" src=\"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/food-waste-dump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/food-waste-dump.jpg 750w, http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/food-waste-dump-300x160.jpg 300w, http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/food-waste-dump-624x334.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to reach back to a few weeks ago to remember what lesson 5 was about and then I remembered the Ted Talk by Tristram Stuart titled the Global food Waste Scandal. During his talk he put in perspective the amount of food that we actually do waste. I always knew that we wasted food as a country, but&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/blog-post-5\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}