Food Waste

     The National Resources Defense Council is an environmental action group with 1.4 million members nation wide. The NRDC recently conducted a study that yielded some troubling figures. According to their research 40% of all the food in the United States is wasted, an astonishing number. This number includes un-harvested food from our farms, food thrown out by restaurants and grocery stores and food discarded by consumers at home. Broken down, this comes out to 263 million pounds of food that is wasted, everyday!  The United States is by far the most decadent and wasteful society in the history of the earth. According to researchers, food waste makes up the largest portion of solid trash in our nation's landfills. This is unfortunate considering that 47 million people are on some kind of food assistance, with millions of kids going hungry every night. What if we just stopped wasting food? How would these figures change?  None of this includes the money spent. The total wasted food comes out to approximately 165 billion dollars a year. This is heartbreaking to me.-BDB

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