事实与数据——浪费掉的食物……

greennovate · 发表于 2012-2-20 11:33:02

最近我们出了一期自己制作的视频——三顿饭的那些事儿。http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzUyNzQ5NDky.html自己也配合着看了一些与食物有关的资料，前不久看到了一个英文版的有关于我们浪费掉的食物的事实。这里贴上来译出来与大家分享一下。

There are nearly one billion malnourished people in the world, but the approximately 40 million tonnes of food wasted by US households, retailers and food services each year would be enough to satisfy the hunger of every one of them.
全球有近10亿人营养不良，但在美国被家庭、零售店及餐厅浪费的粮食约40万吨，这些食物足以消除全球饥饿。

The irrigation water used globally to grow food that is wasted would be enough for the domestic needs (at 200 litres per person per day) of 9 billion people - the number expected on the planet by 2050.
世界在农业灌溉上浪费的水足够90亿人的家庭需求（按每人每天200升计算） - 预计在2050年，人口估计会到90亿。

If we planted trees on land currently used to grow unnecessary surplus and wasted food, this would offset a theoretical maximum of 100% of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion.
如果我们把目前种植过剩或浪费掉的粮食的土地用来种树，这在理论上的最大值将可全部吸收当今化石燃料燃烧产生的温室气体排量。

10% of rich countries' greenhouse gas emissions come from growing food that is never eaten.
富国温室气体排量的10%来源于种植没人会吃的食物。

The UK, US and Europe have nearly twice as much food as is required by the nutritional needs of their populations. Up to half the entire food supply is wasted between the farm and the fork. If crops wastefully fed to livestock are included, European countries have more than three times more food than they need, while the US has around four times more food than is needed, and up to three-quarters of the nutritional value is lost before it reaches people's mouths.
英美及欧洲所拥有的食物是本国人民营养需求的两倍。而多达一半的食物在从农场到餐桌的过程中浪费了，如果算上喂养牲畜所用的粮食的话，欧洲国家的食物是其所需的三倍，而美国则大约为四倍，高达四分之三的营养价值在入口之前就流失了。

UK Households waste 25% of all the food they buy.
英国家庭会把所购买食物的25%慷慨地浪费掉。

All the world's nearly one billion hungry people could be lifted out of malnourishment on less than a quarter of the food that is wasted in the US, UK and Europe.
世界上有近10亿人口处于饥饿或营养不良状况，而如果能把在美国、英国和欧洲所丢弃的食物的1/4利用起来，饥饿问题就可以解除。

A third of the world's entire food supply could be saved by reducing waste – or enough to feed 3 billion people; and this would still leave enough surplus for countries to provide their populations with 130 per cent of their nutritional requirements.
如果不浪费粮食，全世界就可以少生产1/3的粮食 - 或从另一方面来说，可以再养活30亿人；这意味着如果某国的人口增加30%，还是会有足够的营养供应。

Between 2 and 500 times more carbon dioxide can be saved by feeding food waste to pigs rather than sending it for anaerobic digestion (the UK government's preferred option). But under European laws feeding food waste to pigs is banned. In Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, by contrast, it is mandatory to feed some food waste to pigs.
如果将食物残渣喂养肉猪，而不是厌氧消化（英国政府的首选方案），可避免2至500倍的碳排量。但是欧盟法律禁止将食物残渣喂猪。而在日本，韩国和台湾，相反，用食物残渣喂猪则是强制性要求。

2.3 million tonnes of fish discarded in the North Atlantic and the North Sea each year; 40 to 60% of all fish caught in Europe are discarded – either because they are the wrong size, species, or because of the ill-governed European quota system.
在北大西洋和北海每年丢弃的鱼重达230万吨; 在欧洲40％至60％的鱼被丢弃 - 要么因为他们不符规格、品种的要求，要么因为不合理的欧洲配额制度。

An estimated 20 to 40% of UK fruit and vegetables rejected even before they reach the shops – mostly because they do not match the supermarkets' excessively strict cosmetic standards.
据估计，20%至40％的水果和蔬菜不能进入英国的商场 - 主要是因为他们没达到超市对“卖相”过分严格的要求标准。

8.3 million hectares of land required to produce just the meat and dairy products wasted in UK homes and in US homes, shops and restaurants. That is 7 times the amount of Amazon rainforest destroyed in Brazil in one year, largely for cattle grazing and soy production to export for livestock feed.
830万公顷的土地！830万公顷的土地生产出来的肉类与乳制品，最终只为了被英美家庭、商店及餐馆丢掉垃圾桶里。这相当于巴西每年被毁掉的亚马逊雨林面积的7倍，开垦雨林主要用于放牧和用于牲畜饮料的大豆生产。

The bread and other cereal products thrown away in UK households alone would have been enough to lift 30 million of the world's hungry people out of malnourishment
仅在英国，被家庭丢弃的面包和其他谷物足够解除三千万人口的饥饿及营养不良问题。

4600 kilocalories per day of food are harvested for every person on the planet; of these, only around 2000 on average are eaten – more than half of it is lost on the way.
地球上平均每天每人会得到4600千卡的食物，而只有2000进入到口中 - 超过一半的都在过程中流失。

4 million people in the UK, 43 million in the EU and around 35 million in the US suffer from food poverty.
在英国，四百万人；在欧盟，四千三百万；在美国，三千五百万的人遭遇粮食贫困。

24 to 35% of school lunches end up in the bin.
24%至35％的学校午餐被扔进了垃圾桶。

An estimated 20 million tonnes of food wasted in Britain from the plough to the plate.
据估计，有20万吨的粮食在从田中到碗中的旅程中被浪费了。