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  • If you have the power to implement one food-related policy, what would it be?

    “Large food companies should report how much food they waste on annual basis: this level of transparency would create a level playing field on which food companies would be able to demonstrate and publicise their food waste reduction measures in a fair, practical and transparent way which would encourage innovation.”

    Mr Tristram Stuart, 32
    UK food waste campaigner and author of ‘Waste: A Global Food Scandal’. He got a Member of Parliament to table this policy as an Early Day Motion in the UK Parliament on 12 March 2010.


    “It’s a bit ambitious, but I would ban landfill disposal of food if I could change one food-related policy.”


    Mr Jonathan Bloom, 33
    American freelance journalist, creator of WastedFood.com and author of American Wasteland (to be published October 2010)

    “It’s high time that we have a carbon label on every food product so that consumers are aware of the climate change impacts of their food choices.”


    Dr Khoo Hsien Hui, 36
    Researcher who investigates the carbon footprint of materials and food



    “I would like a policy that results in developed countries investing the equivalent of USD 1 dollar per day for each member of their population towards the upgrading of the agriculture of developing countries (this includes education, materials and social infrastructure). At a more personal level, each citizen should fast for one day per month and donate the equivalent food cost saved towards the hungry in their own country.”


    Dr Albert McGill
    Retired Science dean of Victoria University, Melbourne, and visiting Food Science professor of National University of Singapore

    “There needs to be a blanket education programme for kids to eat properly and eat well – at an age where they can assimilate it, not at an age when they think it is a chore.”


    Mr Guy Hoh, 37
    Restaurant consultant and food writer

    “To have a campaign to encourage people with more food to share with those with less food.”


    Ms Christine Laimer, 48
    Founder of Food From The Heart, a charity organisation that distributes unsold bread and other food supplements to the needy in Singapore

    “All companies that generate a significant amount of food waste must
    1) Sell or give unsold or soon-to-be expired food and products to the needy
    2) Send inedible food waste for composting or anaerobic digestion”


    Mr Eugene Tay, 32
    Editor of website Zero Waste Singapore

    “To set up a government department to work with households & the food and beverage industry to review their food wastage, like how we have a drive to save electricity and water by Singapore Power and PUB (Public Utilities Board).”


    Ms Nichol Ng, 32
    Managing director of food distribution company, FoodXervices

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