Should we talk about Food Waste Day?

So first, who is Tristram?

He's young (I say that because I'm over 30, haha), so we'll say he's an English thirty-something committed to fighting food waste.

I admit I fell in love when I read that at the age of 10 he wrote to McDonald's saying he was boycotting the brand as long as there were chlorofluorocarbons (a subclass of fluorinated gases responsible for the destruction of the ozone layer) in the hamburger boxes. 10 years old, come on. I'm not going to lie, at 10 I had other priorities. (That's why I want him to marry me)

Well, I also admit (a little) that all the actions he takes help a lot. For example, Feeding the 5000. A giant banquet cooked with ugly vegetables (DOES EVERYONE GET IT??) held in most European capitals to raise awareness about food waste.

Let's just recall some figures in terms of waste: in France it's 20kg per year per person (that seems just crazy to me), of which 7kg are already packaged. So an additional expense of €400 per year. For €400 I could go for a short weekend trip. It's just huge!

Let's also remember that 1 billion people suffer from malnutrition and 1/3 of global agricultural production is thrown away, and in France, supermarkets throw away 197 tons per year (DYING)

When I see these figures, I sometimes want to shoot myself. Seriously. I know, maybe I live on Utopia planet. But just throwing things away breaks my heart, I don't think I throw anything away. I've eaten expired yogurts. I don't think I have a disease. Vegetables bought at the market that don't look like anything but are good because appearance isn't everything (at least for vegetables, anyway), too. Not dead yet. I don't know, it's probably the consumer society that makes us buy and throw away.

Finally, when you see that supermarkets refuse vegetables because they are not the right size (all brands), I mean, there's a serious problem. When you don't finish your plate at the restaurant and you can't take it home (because the doggy bag is not at all in our customs) and the restaurateur prefers to throw it away rather than let you take it. Fed up with that too. There are still some things we can fix. Or improve. I don't know.

Anyway, back to Tristram, he wrote a book called Global Gâchis (I admit I just put it on my wishlist) but he also made a documentary for Canal Plus (yes, I'm a bobo who has Canal Plus) that was extremely well done about all the food waste in our society. Really worth seeing.

At worst, watch Tristram give a convention/talk (I'm not sure what to call it) on repeat like I do.