'Cook It, Save It, Share It' Campaign Fights Food Waste
反食物浪费运动：要么煮、要么存、要么分享
Peter Rabbit, best known for stealing carrots from farmer McGregor's garden, is now urging everyone to cook it save it or share it, so they don't waste carrots or any other food for the effort that went into producing it.The Ad council's save the food campaign sponsored by the Natural Resources Defense Council is bringing that message to even more cities across the country this summer.
因为偷麦格雷戈农场的花园胡萝卜而出名的彼得兔们现在正在敦促所有人参与“要么煮、要么存、要么分”的运动，它们不会浪费胡萝卜或者其他食物，因为人们为生产这些食物付出了心血。广告委员会的“节约食物”运动得到自然资源保护委员会赞助支持，将于今年夏天将这个理念传播到全国更多的城市。
When you throw something into your trash or into the disposer,there's a lot of water that was embedded in producing that food, right?Similarly with pesticides, fertilizers, labor, and all those things get wasted.That adds up to 160 billion dollars wasted each year in the United States, according to estimates by the US Food and Drug Administration.And that has an impact not just on our wallets but on the environment.Food waste is the single largest material type of filling up our landfills and once it's there,it's giving off a really potent greenhouse gas called methane and so it also has contributed to climate change.
你把东西丢到垃圾桶或者碎渣机里时，你知道生产这些食物耗费了很多水，对吧？同样地，杀虫剂、肥料、人力也都被浪费掉了。据美国食品与药品管理局估计，这些浪费导致美国每年多达1600亿的损失。而且这不仅浪费我们的钱，对环境也有影响。垃圾填埋场里填埋的最多的就是食物垃圾,而且只要食物在那，就会释放出一种非常强效的温室气体，即甲烷。所以，食物浪费也是环境变化的原因之一。
A spokesperson for the Environmental Protection Agency told VOA news that although the waste problem may seem too big to be manageable, simple steps can be taken in daily life to reduce it.Organizations such as ReFED and the Natural Resources Defense Council agree.You tend overbuy, so something is really helpful and it's very simple, but it's just to make a grocery list before you go shopping.They can ask their local grocery stores how they're managing food.Are they donating excess food to the hungry in their community? I'm also going to restaurants and asking for options on the portion size that they're able to be served.Activists say taking those steps could help the average American consumer save 1600 dollars each year by cutting unnecessary spending on food that is never eaten.
环境保护局的一位发言人告诉美国之音新闻说，尽管浪问题看似十分严重难以处理，但是我们可以日行小事减少浪费。ReFED(Rethink Food Waste)和自然资源保护委员会等组织也表示认同。你往往过度购买，所以有些东西真的很管用，而且也很简单，不过是在买东西前做个购物清单。他们可以问问当地杂货铺他们是怎么处理（多余）食物的。他们是不是把多余食物捐赠给了社区里面吃不饱饭的人们？我去餐厅吃饭，会请求他们给我食物不同分量的选项。活动家们表示，通过采取一些措施，美国普通消费者每年可以节约1600美元，即减少花在这些浪费掉的食物上的非必要开支。
Veronica Balderas Iglesias VOA news Washington
美国之音新闻，Veronica Balderas Iglesias华盛顿报道。