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Global Food Waste: The Dumbest Problem

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Food is the basic necessities of humans. Everyone loves food, it is central not only to our survival but also to our cultures. Although, we love food, we are also wasting it. Food Waste and Lost Food waste is considered to be edible food that is not eaten or tossed away. Food lost occurs at different point, particularly the food that is lost in the supply chain between the producer and the market. This can happen during handling, storage or transportation. We are tossing out around 1.3 billion tones of food into trash. According to the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization, an estimated 1/3 of all food produced globally was lost or wasted every year.  Contributor to Climate Change When we picture the stuff that are hurting our planet, we think of pollution from vehicles, oil spills, plastics, etc.  We don't really think about the food we throw away. All these wasted foods  an environmental impact. As mentioned above each year one-third of all the food the worl...

Cooking: Evolution to Culture of Human Beings

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For many people, when they think about food, it appears to be a magical happiness even under constraints. Even, we may experience the magical happiness, when the smells of cooking spread around ourselves.  The connection between foods we eat every day, can tell us more about our evolution and culture. Not only in taste but also in cooking methods, varieties of foods are available in different parts of the world. A Key to Modern Human Evolution In the discourse of evolution , cooking has more contribution in development of human beings. Scientists accept that eating cooked food made major effects in the human body over the time period. At about 1.8 million years ago, our ancestors known as Homo erectus develop larger brain than their ancestors.  Scientists found that around these periods significant changes such as increase in brain size, decrease in tooth size and smaller gut when compared to their ancestors who came before.  It is impossible to know the exa...