IN CAMPAIGN TO STOP FOOD WASTE, UN AGENCY SPOTLIGHTS TRADITIONAL PRESERVATION METHODS

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IN CAMPAIGN TO STEM FOOD WASTE, UN AGENCY SPOTLIGHTS TRADITIONAL
PRESERVATION METHODSNew York, May 21 2013 1:00PMFermenting birds,
naturally freeze-drying potatoes and squeezing meat on a saddle are
some of the traditional methods used by cultures around the world to
preserve food highlighted today by the United Nations environment
agency, which is stressing the importance of reducing food waste.

"Reducing food waste and loss is an economic, ethical and
environmental challenge that links to some of the greatest challenges
of today, from hunger and nutrition to climate change, deforestation
and land degradation," the Executive Director of the UN Environment
Programme (UNEP), Achim Steiner, said.

"One of the ways everyone can contribute to these twin challenges is
by looking at how less-wasteful cultures place such value on every
morsel of food and considering how to emulate them," Mr. Steiner
added.

Each year, an estimated one third of all food produced – equivalent to
1.3 billion tonnes worth around $1 trillion – ends up rotting in the
bins of consumers and retailers, or spoiling due to poor
transportation and harvesting practices, according to the agency.

UNEP emphasized that unconsumed food wastes both the energy put into
growing it and the fuel spent on transporting produce across various
distances, adding that this significant amount of waste has serious
moral implications in a world where almost 900 million people go
hungry every day.

As part of its campaign
<i><"http://www.unep.org/wed/wedpack/thinkeatsave/">Think.Eat.Save.
Reduce Your Foodprint</i>, and ahead of the celebrations of
<"http://www.unep.org/wed/">World Environment Day on 5 June, UNEP
asked people to submit examples of traditional ways in which food is
preserved.

In Mongolia, troops condensed the equivalent of the beef of an entire
cow into the size of a human fist. This remarkable method of food
preservation, without refrigeration, produced a meal equivalent to
several steaks when the protein was shaved into hot water to make
soup.

In Turkey, horsemen would preserve meat by placing it in pockets on
their saddles to be compressed by their legs as they rode. In
Greenland, the Inuit would wrap birds in seal skin, removing the air
before sewing it up. The birds then ferment for around seven months
before they are dug up and eaten, often at celebrations.

In South America, a freeze-dried potato delicacy known as chuño, which
pre-dates the Inca Empire, is widely eaten. The potatoes are
alternately exposed to the freezing night air and hot daytime sun for
five days, being trampled to squeeze out all moisture. Chuño can last
for months or years.

"In industrialized regions, almost half of the total food squandered,
around 300 million tonnes annually, occurs because producers,
retailers and consumers discard food that is still fit for
consumption—more than the net food production of Sub-Saharan Africa
and enough to feed the world's hungry," UNEP said in a news release,
adding that while traditional methods of preserving food may not be
adaptable to all regions and cultures, they do underline how much room
there is for consumers to change the way they buy, store and consume
food.

World Environment Day aims to be the biggest and most widely
celebrated global day for positive environmental action. This year's
theme supports UNEP's anti-food waste and food loss campaign and
encourages individuals to reduce their 'food-print.'May 21 2013
1:00PM
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