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Food Waste Is Overwhelming. Here Are Five Things People Are Doing About It
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2552" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/08/22/159825659/theres-too-much-food-waste-but-here-are-five-things-people-are-doing-about-it" target="_blank"><strong>Food Waste Is Overwhelming. Here Are Five Things People Are Doing About It - NPR</strong></a></p><p></p><p>The food world is buzzing today about the latest news on just how often we waste perfectly good food. And we admit, the statistics are pretty depressing.</p><p></p><p>About 40 percent of food in the United States today goes uneaten. The average American consumer wastes 10 times as much food as someone in Southeast Asia — up 50 percent from Americans in the 1970s. Yet, 1 in 6 Americans doesn't have enough to eat, says the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And food waste costs us about $165 billion a year and sucks up 25 percent of our freshwater supply.</p><p> </p><p>That's all according to the <a href="http://www.nrdc.org/food/files/wasted-food-IP.pdf" target="_blank">report</a> with the not-so-subtle title, "Wasted: How America Is Losing Up to 40 Percent of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill," just released by the Natural Resources Defense Council.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2552, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/08/22/159825659/theres-too-much-food-waste-but-here-are-five-things-people-are-doing-about-it'][B]Food Waste Is Overwhelming. Here Are Five Things People Are Doing About It - NPR[/B][/URL] The food world is buzzing today about the latest news on just how often we waste perfectly good food. And we admit, the statistics are pretty depressing. About 40 percent of food in the United States today goes uneaten. The average American consumer wastes 10 times as much food as someone in Southeast Asia — up 50 percent from Americans in the 1970s. Yet, 1 in 6 Americans doesn't have enough to eat, says the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And food waste costs us about $165 billion a year and sucks up 25 percent of our freshwater supply. That's all according to the [URL='http://www.nrdc.org/food/files/wasted-food-IP.pdf']report[/URL] with the not-so-subtle title, "Wasted: How America Is Losing Up to 40 Percent of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill," just released by the Natural Resources Defense Council. [/QUOTE]
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