Top 72 Quotes About Waste Food
#1. Any mechanism that will ensure benefits to consumer, any mechanism that will ensure that we do not waste food grains, any mechanism that helps the poorest of the poor is a welcome step.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#2. I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.
Vivienne Westwood
#3. We, the people, do have the power to stop [the] tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food.
Tristram Stuart
#4. Supermarkets didn't even want to talk to me about how much food they were wasting. I'd been round the back. I'd seen bins full of food being locked and then trucked off to landfill sites, and I thought, surely there is something more sensible to do with food than waste it.
Tristram Stuart
#5. I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.
Martin Yan
#6. Each and every minute spent reviewing one's lifestyle is never wasted. A better life comes when one takes time to re-order his/her steps, having learnt lessons worth applying!
Israelmore Ayivor
#7. Don't waste time waiting for opportunity to surface; it may never happen that way. Spend time to create one and many more will unfold in series!
Israelmore Ayivor
#8. In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it's such a waste to be constantly picking at food because you then can't enjoy a proper full meal when the time comes.
Nigella Lawson
#9. DJs should not be just pressing play with a USB stick, or getting wasted and throwing cake. I don't think [stunts like throwing cake] have anything to do with connecting with your audience. To me, it has no substantial creative value - it's just a waste of food.
Paul Van Dyk
#10. If I don't see the reason of someone being my friend, chances are, we are just floating and I need a ship to set sail.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#11. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, food packaging makes up twenty percent of our solid waste nationwide.
Colin Beavan
#12. There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.
James Beard
#13. There are people who eat only organic food, and then there are people who don't have tons of money to waste. You
Jim Gaffigan
#14. This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.
John Sladek
#15. The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle
Ellen MacArthur
#16. It's certainly sobering to think that British consumers waste roughly a quarter of the food we buy. Or to put it another way, we funnel £12 billion a year from the supermarket through to our rubbish tips, costing each household an average of £480.
Tristram Stuart
#17. The
blending of architecture, solar, wind, biological and electronic
technologies with housing, food production, and waste utilization within
an ecological and cultural context will be the basis of creating a new
... design science for the post-petroleum era.
John Todd
#18. According to the 'food waste pyramid,' ensuring that food is eaten by people is the top priority. Failing that, the next best thing is to feed it to farm animals.
Tristram Stuart
#19. And, of course, the funniest food: "kumquats". I don't even bring them home anymore. I sit there laughing and they go to waste.
George Carlin
#20. I really liked German food. And it's very clean.. It's a very clean country. They kind of get rid of the waste really well.. the garbage.
Dominic Monaghan
#21. I prefer not to have among my guests two people or more, of any sex, who are in the first wild tremours of love. It is better to invite them after their new passion has settled, has solidified into a quieter reciprocity of emotions. (It is also a waste of good food, to serve it to new lovers.)
M.F.K. Fisher
#22. Waste equals food, whether it's food for the earth, or for a closed industrial cycle. We manufacture products that go from cradle to grave. We want to manufacture them from cradle to cradle.
William McDonough
#23. We all eat & it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.
Anna Thomas
#24. There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.
Henry Rollins
#25. Leave something on your plate ... 'Better to go to waste than to waist
Michael Pollan
#26. Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.
Franz Grillparzer
#27. A hunter who is going to shoot an antelope does not waste his bullets on the dog.
Israelmore Ayivor
#28. If you don't have any good idea, you are likely to waste money if it's given to you! If you don't have an idea, you can't even know how much money you need ... This is because; it's your ideas that give you the cost to pay!
Israelmore Ayivor
#29. Persons drinking coffee, as a general rule, eat less, though coffee, and also tea, have little direct food value; but they retard the waste of the tissues, and so take the place of food.
Maria Parloa
#30. Waste no time on what you don't want. Go for what you want. Go for that alone.
Israelmore Ayivor
#32. I believe I should be able to treat my hamburger like food, not like infectious fucking medical waste.
Anthony Bourdain
#33. the encyclical also deals with poverty, the destruction of biodiversity, the pollution of fresh water and the oceans, sustainable food, extractive industries, and the waste created by the global economy.
Pope Francis
#34. 21Most food goes to waste in affluent societies. When we throw leftovers into the garbage, it goes to waste. When we eat more food than we need, it goes to waist.
Earle Gray
#35. In China, I helped introduce UNEP's campaign to reduce food waste on World Environment Day. The government took notice of food waste issues and now, when you over-order in a restaurant, you are encouraged to downsize. This is where people can really impact policy and vice versa!
Li Bingbing
#36. Rioting over food: how could this be? Here was all this grain, food enough to feed half the world, sitting in piles at the train station, going to waste. Something was out of balance.
Timothy Egan
#37. Food redistribution is one of the best win-win solutions for food waste avoidance. Food companies can often save money by donating food rather than paying the £80 or so per tonne in landfill tax and disposal costs.
Tristram Stuart
#38. If we grew our own food, we wouldn't waste a third of it as we do today. If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn't throw them out the moment we changed the interior decor. If we had to clean our own drinking water, we probably wouldn't contaminate it.
Mark Boyle
#39. The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it.
Mario Batali
#40. The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.
Tom Coburn
#41. Wasting food is like stealing from the poor.
Pope Francis
#42. I credit my grandmother for teaching me to love and respect food. She taught me how to waste nothing, to make sure I used every bit of the chicken and boil the bones till no flavor could be extracted from them.
Marcus Samuelsson
#43. A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.
Mark Twain
#44. We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.
Bill Gates
#45. If your name is "canoe" and you can't float on water, you are useless! If they call you "cutlass" but you can't chop anything into pieces, you are a waste! You have a unique role, you are a brand! Do what you were created to do!
Israelmore Ayivor
#46. Each year-in the fields, commercial kitchens, markets, stores, and restaurants-millions of pounds of food go to waste ... We need to find ways to get this food into the mouths of the hungry and not into the mouth of the dumpster.
Dan Glickman
#47. To save your life from prodigal waste, you must have good ideas. God may give you an idea that he may send someone to pay for. Surely, if you hide that idea, you may not meet the person meant to finance it!
Israelmore Ayivor
#48. If there is anything in life to worry about at all, it's your wasted yesterday. Unfortunately, before you worry about it, you have to waste today doing so. Never worry!
Israelmore Ayivor
#49. In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food waste as livestock feed. It's environmentally friendly, it provides cheap livestock feed for the farmers in those parts of the world, and it avoids sending the food waste to landfill.
Tristram Stuart
#50. There's something better than an 'excuse' for your mistake, which is 'now you know how to stop it from happening again'.
Mohith Agadi
#51. I think food is the great equalizer. Other than the ocean and the air, food is the thing that we all share in common. I think along with that comes the question of why are some people starving, and why do some people produce more food than they need, and why is food going to waste.
Brett Dennen
#52. How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!
James Payn
#53. The business of raising animals for food (with its continuous heavy waste stream of methane and nitrous oxide - leading global warming gases) is responsible for about 18% of global warming. Some scientists actually say the number is closer to 50%.
Kathy Freston
#54. Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.
Pope Francis
#55. The Feeding the 5000 campaign is inviting food businesses to sign up to the principles of the Food Waste Pyramid tool, which illustrates a simple set of steps that any food business can take to avoid and reduce food waste.
Tristram Stuart
#56. animals, using natural waste products as fertilizers. Even today, in many parts of India where technology is minimal, food is produced mostly by hand with generous help from
Shanta Nimbark Sacharoff
#57. This culture of waste has made us insensitive even to the waste and disposal of food, which is even more despicable when all over the world, unfortunately, many individuals and families are suffering from hunger and malnutrition.
Pope Francis
#58. The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population, acting, in some degree, unshackled, from the constant habit of emigration.
Thomas Malthus
#59. Only 10 per cent of food grown in India is processed. So the best way to reduce food waste and maximise calorie delivery is to increase that ratio of processed food to total food.
Anthony Pratt
#60. In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We're now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.
Nina Fedoroff
#61. In the United States, under 3 percent of municipal food waste - so that's the food scraps that goes into people's garbage cans - actually gets recycled. If you go to a place like South Korea, the exact reverse is the case. It's about 3 percent that doesn't get recycled.
Tristram Stuart
#62. Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity ...
Frances Moore Lappe
#63. Cutting food waste is a delicious way of saving money, helping to feed the world and protect the planet.
Tristram Stuart
#64. Chihuahua. There's a waste of dog food. Looks like a dog that is still far away.
Billiam Coronel
#65. If you were called to gallop like the horse, never end up hopping like the frog. Rise up for greatness.
Israelmore Ayivor
#67. I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.
Jane Goodall
#68. The garden is doing so well, we have so many greens and radishes that everyone is enjoying. Also, we are using one square as a compost bin, the Green Team is collecting food waste at lunch. Things are looking great, a huge thank you again.
Mike Moreno
#69. A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of much of the excess food that is currently contributing to leachate and methane formation in landfills.
Carol Browner
#70. The 'good food' is ... the food of the Word of God, for as food builds up the tissues of the body, repairs waste, and preserves us in health, so the Word of God is the complete food of the soul.
William Griffith Thomas
#71. If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy ... people who don't have no food ... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.
B.B. King
#72. With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
Yehuda Berg
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