City Yeasts Movements Broadcast Overseas School Yeasts US Project

Food Zero Waste

After further understanding City Yeast, we decided to take part in its activities in person. So we browsed the City Yeast website, soughting for current activities suitable for us to simulate. Finally, we selected Food Zero Waste. So we went to OKO Green Café (No. 1, Tongshan Street, Chungcheng District, Taipei City) on the 9th of July.. The following is a simple flow chart：

10:00-12:00 Lectures: travel of leftover from place of origin to the table, food design
12:00-13:00 Freewill lunchtime
13:00-15:00 Food travel of banana cake or instant noodle
15:00-16:00 Just-good experiment plan
16:00-17:00 Share of results

  

 

(Photo taken on 2013/07/09)

 

The travel of leftovers from source to table

Amber Chan introduced possible food waste which can cause in each process of food production.

 

  1. Production side
    1. Imbalance between production and marketing, farmers have no bargaining freedom.
    2. Market crop high prices-> mass production> price dropping> vicious circle
    3. Single normalization
  2. Transport and processing ends
    1. Waste in water and carbon sources were caused by packing slip or aesthetic problems .
    2. Food miles> scholar consider no matter which transportation method is taken, the longer food transportation is, the more consumed fossil fuels will be.
    3. Food miles may introduce cognitive differences→fair mileage
    4. Fair mile requires a full consideration of various factors related to food.
  3. 3. Retail channels
    1. Power imbalances
    2. More orders, more waste
    3. Customers often buy more than they need during promotion activities.

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    Waste in food miles- Food travel of banana cake or instant noodle

    We are surprised to find that the waste in bread making process is more serious than we expected. During this process, food safety issues and injury many be innumerable; and we should attach great importance to the cause, including chicken health problems, salt refining process, and excessive use of resource, aluminum-containing baking powder, cattle breeding problems and later expired, excessive packaging issues.

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    Just-good experiment plan

    Put food into a plate for the person on your left and put mango sauce, hoping they can enjoy it.

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    Bread-eating activity

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