在法国，食物浪费问题非常严重，每年约有1,000万吨的食物会被丢弃，约占生产总值的10%。一年前，一位在法国留学的中国妹子Yooupi加入了拾荒队伍挽救这些食物，自那以后，在法国街头的各种垃圾桶旁，人们都经常能看到她的身影。
According to the World Food Programme, one-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted in the world. This amounts to about 1.3 billion tons per year, worth about $1 trillion. All the food produced but never eaten would be able to feed two billion people. That’s more than twice the number of people suffering from hunger and malnutrition across the globe.
根据世界粮食计划署，世界上3分之1的供人类消费的粮食丢失或浪费。这相当于每年约13亿吨，价值约1万亿美元。所有生产但从未吃过的食物都能养活20亿个人。这是全球饥饿和营养不良人数的两倍多。
Yooupi just graduated in France with a master’s degree in Art, and she has been posting dumpster diving(捡垃圾) vlogs for a year. People were shocked by her pictures of just how much good food is wasted.
Yooupi刚刚毕业于法国，获得艺术硕士学位，她已经发布垃圾箱潜水视频博客一年了。人们被她浪费了多少好食物的照片震惊了。
It all began when she visited an open market at the weekend, where she saw many people, including college students and even office workers, “saving” discarded(丢弃的) fruits and vegetables. The shop owners threw the food away because the tomatoes or apples lost their shapes, or because they were “ugly”. What’s more, the supermarkets and bakeries would throw edible(可食用的) food according to their “best sell by” dates. She found this to be an interesting topic that she could use in her vlog, so she started to learn about it.
这一切都始于她周末参观一个开放市场，在那里她看到许多人，包括大学生，甚至上班族，“保存” 被丢弃的水果和蔬菜。店主把食物扔掉是因为西红柿或苹果失去了形状，或者因为它们 “丑陋”。此外，超市和面包店会根据 “最佳销售日期” 出售可食用食品。她发现这是一个可以在她的视频日志中使用的有趣的话题，所以她开始学习它。
“I even made friends with other ‘pickers’ here,” she said. “We usually share information. My ‘picker’ friends are all different. Some of them are really living from hand to mouth, but there were also office workers, and some are even quite rich,” she explained. Yooupi has also met some people who collect discarded but still edible food to help people in need.
“我甚至和这里的其他 '拾荒者' 交了朋友，” 她说。“我们通常分享信息。我的 “拾荒者” 朋友都是不同的。他们中的一些人确实过着亲密的生活，但也有上班族，有些人甚至相当富有，”她解释道。Yooupi还遇到了一些人，他们收集废弃但仍可食用的食物来帮助有需要的人。
People have different opinions about what Yooupi did. There are people who have changed their mind about waste, while there are others who don’t quite understand the intention behind Yoopi’s efforts. “I made these videos just to reflect a phenomenon, not to live on picking up discarded food,” she said. “What is more important is the changes in values than what I found in dumpsters. I pay more attention to anti-waste.”
人们对Yooupi的所作所为有不同的看法。有些人改变了对浪费的想法，而有些人不太理解Yoopi努力背后的意图。“我制作这些视频只是为了反映一种现象，而不是为了靠捡起废弃的食物为生，” 她说。“比我在垃圾箱里发现的更重要的是价值的变化。我更加注重反浪费。”
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