Chapter 1182: A Dream
Xiao Tang took the stage with a speech.
This is a large-scale speech produced by the United Agricultural Organization, and many people in the business and political circles have climbed up with various speeches......
Why do Americans like to give speeches?
After the beginning of the "School Movement" in the 19th century, lecture halls began to spread knowledge and ideas, and then gradually grew to become an indispensable part of American culture.
All kinds of campaign speeches, such as running for president, the words on paper will generally be relatively boring, and they are tired to look good when written, so it is different to listen to, no matter how scummy the content, as long as you are willing to listen, you can always listen to it, because some people keep talking......
When you hear the excitement and liking and then look at the speech, it is easy to understand it and read out the deeper flavor.
In addition, when giving a speech, the demeanor and tone of various candidates can reveal a lot of content, and these revelations are sometimes more important than the content of the speech......
Slowly, the culture of speech began to assimilate into American culture.
Chinese are generally more subtle, including competition, and when it comes to speeches, Tang Hai also thinks of Brother Yun in the Internet Shuangmali.
The people fell silent.
Not only were there people from schools that attach importance to agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, but also some relevant bosses, and many countries were also watching the live broadcast......
"As many of you know, when I first arrived in the U.S., I couldn't find food for a while.
Someone asked me if the plot was true in the "Tokyo Bay Lovers" I participated in, and I couldn't stand it because I was so hungry that I turned over the trash can to find something to eat, and I haven't answered it for the past two years, and the answer is...... Yes. β
Boom!
Tang Hai has many nicknames, Lord Hai, Godfather, the strongest man in the universe, Druid Tang, Tang Hai originally thought that there could be no more "garbage eater", so he never said it......
Until the agri-food organization came to the door.
Tang Hai has a very good impression of the agricultural and grain organization, and Mr. Yuan, the god of grain, is the chief adviser of this organization......
Besides, it's also a double profit.
Tang Hai's first sentence caused an uproar, Tang Hai was interrupted, and then after he calmed down, he continued, two years ago, a news from the University of Washington named Rhett, a master's degree, is not without money, but insists on rummaging through the trash can to find food in order to do experiments......
An ordinary person insisted on rummaging through the trash can for several years, during which he bought $5.5 snacks because of greed, but felt that the snacks were not delicious...... After this news made headlines, the young man became the leader of the beggar gang admired by everyone......
Tang Hai didn't talk about himself in too much detail, but instead talked about how the leader of the beggar gang had eaten the trash can food for 4 consecutive years now......
"I'm not encouraging people to go through the trash, I'm talking about how much food waste is in the United States, and around the world. The food found in the trash can of the supermarket in the United States can make a graduate student judge that it is safe and harmless, and it is really harmless to eat it for four years, so the question is, why is the food in the trash can harmless? β
Tang Hai spoke so vividly that many people were fascinated by it.
Here Tang Hai paused to make people think.
Then Tang Hai replied himself: "It's not that the food in the trash can is harmless, but that people throw a lot of harmless food into the trash can!" "Tang Hai is categorical!
There was another uproar, and this time it was Tang Hai who was interrupted again!
Tang Hai asked everyone, if you see insects when you buy apples, do you buy them? Without waiting for an answer, Tang Hai said again that he must not buy it.
This is the "perfectionist mindset" that many people have when it comes to food.
If it is an apple, it will definitely attract insects, and it is impossible to completely control it with pesticides, and besides, insects reproduce for several generations a year, and they will evolve, how can humans bear it? Even if you raise some natural enemies of insects to deal with, there are still insects, so there will be rotten apples.
In this production, rotten apples are directly thrown away and thrown into the ground, which can save labor, management, transportation, and have a certain role of chemical fertilizer, which many fruit farmers think......
"But I'm here to say, no! What you waste is definitely more than you can get! Tang Hai's words were amazing.
And then to transportation, there is another wave of waste, a carton of food is broken, people can refuse to buy this truckload of things, and it causes waste......
Finally, there is the market, there are too many things that can't be sold, rotten and lost!
And then to the end consumer, is there less food to dump in the trash?
"In a whole set, Americans waste almost equal amounts of food and eat it! And 1/7 of families in the United States worry about food! You need to rely on food aid stations and food relief activities to support your family! How ironic it is!
The United States still has a small percentage of food waste, and the most I know is the United Kingdom! And even the whole of Europe!
In 2013, 1.3 billion tons of food were wasted every year, and in 2015, the number has risen to 2 billion tons! These foods are worth a year's GDP of Switzerland and could feed 3 billion people! It takes an extra 550 billion cubic meters of fresh water to grow these foods on takeaway! It's all a waste! We can't just waste so much food and water! β
Tang Hai's words quieted the scene......
Perhaps, everyone is thinking about the waste they have created.
Some people can't think of it, but in fact, when he picks apples without wormholes, he indirectly creates waste, but he can't help it.
And even if people have a certain passion to do a good deed, how long can that enthusiasm last?
If you can't see the benefits and can't see the future, even if you are naΓ―ve, you can't last.
Therefore, the theme of Tang Hai's speech is "dreams".
His dream is not to sit with black and white children and share brotherhood......
"I didn't know about this before, but when I did, I had a dream.
I dream that the best apples can be delivered to people's fruit baskets for us to taste happily. Those apples that are not in good condition, someone specially collected them to make wine, so as not to let them rot in the ground. The most inferior apples are also bought by special people, such as the Enerkem in Michigan and the INEOS project in Florida, turning them into alcohol, energy, and the residue into the cheapest fertilizer to subsidize the hard-working growers.
I dream that some of the agricultural products that are rejected in transit will also be bought by specialized companies, so that they can be turned into biofuels, chemical products, electricity, ......
I dream that hundreds of thousands of supermarkets, wholesale markets, fruit and vegetable markets, there will be many companies like Baldor_Specialty_Foods to contact them to make some vegetables into dried products or even extract flour, or Flying_Pigs_Farm companies to make some waste food that can be used into pet feed.
I dream that more and more FooD_Cowboy charities will emerge around the world that can contact retail companies or wholesale markets to let people know how to donate food that is edible but not in good condition to the poor......
It is even more dreaming that the United States and the world will increase investment in food recovery bills, so that impermanent donors can receive tax exemptions and other benefits, which may even provide jobs for millions of people and absorb labor.
My dream is simple, I just hope that the waste I see will get better day by day.
Thank you. β
β¦β¦ (To be continued.) )