Solutions for Food waste?

India may be the world’s largest milk producer and grow the second largest quantity of fruits and vegetables (after China), but it is also the world’s biggest waster of food. As a result, fruit and vegetable prices are twice what they would be otherwise, and milk costs 50% more than it should.

What can be a solution for this?

https://livingincomeguaranteed.wordpress.com/the-proposal/

What would you do with a Living Income?

We have such limitless potential. Unfortunately there are things that keep us from reaching  this potential and one of them is Money.

What would you be doing if life was not about survival?

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French Food Waste Ban Can Go a Step Further:

“Supermarkets in France have been banned from destroying unsold food in a bid to tackle the country's massive £14bn-worth of annual waste.

The French parliament passed a new law obliging the food retail giants to give any excess to charities or for other use.

The national assembly voted unanimously to pass the measure on Thursday which had been proposed by the Socialist deputy Guillaume Garot.
Mr Garot said: “It’s scandalous to see bleach being poured into supermarket dustbins along with edible foods."

The legislation prevents supermarkets deliberately spoiling unsold food so it can't be eaten, the Guardian reports.” - http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/france-bans-supermarkets-destroying-unsold-5742304

 
My first thought when reading this was why this was not done before? We are now in 2015 with more than half the world living in poverty. A very large amount of Perfectly edible food is thrown away – almost half the food that is produced in this world is thrown away.

It is a fact that the world produces enough food to feed every human being – yet millions die each year because of malnutrition. Making it a law to have supermarkets and big chains not have their leftover food thrown away is a great step forward. Now is it time for every supermarket in the world to follow this trend.

But there is another dark side to this and that is the reason why we have hungry people and food being wasted. And it’s simple – with half the world in poverty they cannot afford to BUY the food. Currently we rely on charities to feed the people. How to solve this?

With a Living Income Guaranteed where the people who before could not afford to buy food no have the money to do so. If we look at it globally with more than half the world unable to afford basic needs and now with the Living Income Guaranteed they are finally able to buy food and afford basic needs – this alone would greatly reduce the food being wasted currently. This would stop the dependency on charities as well by giving people purchasing power and would also be a huge boost in income for supermarkets.

We produce enough food to provide every person on Earth with 2,700 calories per day. Yet 842 million people still go to bed hungry– let’s stop this with LIG.

2015 Happy New year OR Crappy new year?

 

  Is it a Happy New Year? It really depends who you are and where you are and what you are. New Year’s is no special day for me, it’s simply another day, but let’s look at some stats regarding 2014:

· 1020 Rhino Poached in 2014, compared to 333 in 2010. Despite Millions thus far spent on charity organizations the number of rhinos poached tripled in 4 years. Not a Happy New Year ahead for them.

· Half the world still lives in poverty.

· Nearly 1 Billion people suffer from “chronic undernourishment “ aka hunger.

· 80% of the world population lives on less than $10 a day.

· An average of 3.5million people experienced homelessness in the U.S., despite the fact that there are enough empty housing for them all.

The tradition of wishing somebody a happy new year has many complications, sure we can want for other to have a good year, or maybe you are glad that you made it through another year, but for me a happy new year will be finding ways make the statistics above less.

How great would it be if humanity was able to completely eradicate poverty? Bring the amount of hungry people down to zero? Or even have the rhino poaching at a big round zero for a whole year? We certainly have the capacity and resources to do so. For example to put every child in the world through education all we need is 1% of the military budget of the U.S. We have the means to do so.

The Living Income Guaranteed will also be a solution for all the problems above. If it’s implemented it will bring the number of people in poverty down to zero. Money will no longer be a factor for whether or not a child gets an education . People will also have enough to actually live and buy the food they need. There will also be no more homeless people, because they would be able to afford a home.

That would make a truly Happy New Year.

Day 84 - Why Change is needed

 

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that the world is ok as it is and does not need to be changed

I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to see that the existence of war in this world and all the pain and suffering that goes with is enough reason for change to happen

I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to realize that the continuation of poverty and strife is enough reason for change

I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to realize that the existence of slavery in this world is enough reason to change this world

I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to realize that the existence of prostitution - the need to sell ones self to survive in this world - is enough reason for us to find solutions to end it so that it doesn't exist anymore

I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to realize that the existence of corruption and greed is enough reason to fins permanent solutions to end it

I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to realize that the exploitation of earth and its resources is enough reason why we must change our ways

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to justify all this pain and suffering by saying that there is also good and happiness in this world - not realizing that having money gives me the chance to be happy and that most people do not have money

I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to realize that the only reason why i would not want the world to change is because its working out for me - not realizing that billion others are struggling to live and that  millions starve in a world a plenty - there is enough food on the world to feed 13 billion people

I commit myself to realize that the world is not ok as it and that change is needed

I commit myself to realize war, poverty, slavery, prostitution, starvation etc. must end as it is causing great suffering and abuse and if I say that the world is ok as it is i am agreeing that suffering is ok

I commit myself to realize that if we keep on exploiting the earth and stripping it from resources it there will be none left - this is our only home and we must change our ways so that we can start to take care of earth and make sure it will be sustainable for all life in the future

I commit myself to realize that to change the world we need to change our ways - and to change our ways we must change ourselves - and that starts with me - by making the choice to not accept this world the way it is and to find permanent solutions to end all the abuse

I commit myself to realize that the current world system does not work for everybody and definitely not for nature and that we need a new world system where all beings are taken care of

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