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You can feel it intuitively: Throwing food away is disrespect for nature.

An act, if you will, against creation, and thus also against ourselves. It is also true that the numbers are terrifying.

Twelve million tons of edible food end up in the bin in Germany every year - at all levels.

In agriculture, in the processing industry, in supermarkets and, above all, in our own home. According to a new study, more than half of the means we need to live are thrown away in private households.

It is therefore right that the EU and the German government have set themselves the goal of halving the mountain by 2030.

At an event in Berlin on Wednesday, Federal Food Minister Julia Klöckner wanted to take stock of the “national strategy” announced two years ago to reduce food waste.

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The result was appeals to each other, calls for more transparency and digitization, mild pressure from the minister and - in fact - some good detailed solutions.

But only outright optimists can believe that the goal can really be achieved on time.

Throwing it away will probably never be avoided completely.

Let's face it: it's part of the way we live.

The contrast makes it clear: when in earlier semi-agricultural societies a crowd of children, including parents and grandparents, gathered around the table, every potato was in demand, possible leftovers were processed into potato pancakes and even the potato skins were fed to hens and pigs.

Today the expectations regarding the choice and availability of food are almost limitless, the sensitivity to real or supposed flaws is often exaggerated.

In addition, there are conflicting goals.

The famous foil makes the cucumber last longer.

But it also generates packaging waste.

The example can be declined.

All of this is no reason not to be conscious and careful with food in order to throw away as little as possible.

Ultimately out of respect for ourselves.