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During the past few weeks, we have learned a lot of important concepts about where our food comes from and what we sacrifice in order to keep food on our tables.\u00a0 I found it very interesting and a bit daunting to learn about the amount of petroleum that it takes to make our mass production of food possible.\u00a0 Petroleum is widely used in fertilizers that help restore the soil for agriculture, in farming techniques such as the fuel in tractors and also the transportation of our food products around the globe.\u00a0 Because of this connection between petroleum and our production of food, any sort of price increase in petroleum also creates an increase for most of our food prices.\u00a0 For developing countries, this dramatically decreases their affordable food resources.\u00a0 If petroleum, this nonrenewable resource, is so widely used in our farming techniques, why do we (indirectly) throw so much of it away?<\/span><\/p>\n In the lecture given by Tristam Stuart, we saw the horrifying statistics of how much of our food production ends up in the trash in the more affluent countries.\u00a0 There is a massive problem regarding our surplus of foods in the United States, as there are twice the amount of food available in our supermarkets and restaurants than what is needed to feed our people (Stuart).\u00a0 In\u00a0 our modern food culture, we’re seeing tons of perfectly edible foods thrown away every day just because it doesn’t meet the visual expectations by our supermarkets.\u00a0 Not only is the food being wasted, but all the money, oil, and effort that was used in the process of bringing it to our markets as well.\u00a0 In a sense, we are throwing away oil.\u00a0 We are seeing this problem of mismanagement of our resources from these large corporations, as we are growing more food than is what’s needed and not finding responsible alternatives for how we deal with food waste across the world.<\/span><\/p>\n Picture Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.konbini.com\/us\/files\/2015\/05\/FoodWastePic.jpg<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" During the past few weeks, we have learned a lot of important concepts about where our food comes from and what we sacrifice in order to keep food on our tables.\u00a0 I found it very interesting and a bit daunting to learn about the amount of petroleum that it takes to make our mass production of food possible.\u00a0 Petroleum is… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,22,23,24,14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-farming","category-food-movements","category-food-waste","category-soil","category-systems-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}