Tristram Stuart : The global food waste scandal

Tristram Stuart at TEDSalon London Spring 2012
The global food waste scandal  (transcript)
Summary
The problem is a vicious circle. Human desire is horrible. In Japan there is a Proverb: A grudge over food is scary.
I think that this problem has to start consumers, the speaker started from supermarkets, though.

My questions are why supermarkets have to be set a lot of shelves that are full of food and why supermarkets don't serve sandwiches with crusts. It's because people consumers complain that supermarket doesn't have enough food, their refrigerators are full of food, though. Then I often see that children say that they don't want to eat crusts of bread.

My second questions are it's not true that the government has favorite ways of getting rid of food waste. The government wants to collect taxes more from us and companies. The government plans that people and companies can buy more food, even if it creates foods waste.

After all, it returns back to us. Not the government, companies, and supermarkets but we have to have the power to stop this tragic waste of food problem and tell governments and corporations that we want to see an end to food waste.
Today too, there are people who couldn't eat enough food in the world, but people throw out edible food.

Words in this story
vicious /adj/ deliberately cruel or violent.
crusts /noun/ the tough outer part of a loaf of bread.
inedible /adj/ not fit or suitable for eating.
empirical /adj/ experiential, practical
anaerobic /adj/ relating to, involving, or requiring an absence of free oxygen.