40% of food in the United States goes to waste — and incidents like this don’t help!
Sanitation Department workers in New York City threw out thousands of dollars worth of fresh produce earlier this month because it was obstructing the sidewalk.
Do you ever consider the journey your food takes from farm to fridge? It may make you think twice about wasting it.
40% of food in America ends up wasted. Food waste is the single largest contributor to landfills in the U.S.—not to mention that it wastes water, labor, fuel, money, & love!
VisitSaveTheFood.com to learn how you can help stop food waste.
40% of food in America ends up wasted. Food waste is the single largest contributor to landfills in the U.S.—not to mention that it wastes water, labor, fuel, money, & love! Visit SaveTheFood.com to learn how you can help stop food waste.
This British company is turning food waste into beer
“We got a lesson in brewing as well as a lesson in using the bread for it,” says Michael Mulcahy, who helped tear up about 200 loaves of bread into chunks to make the amber ale he’s sipping. “Today, we get to taste what came out of it.”
there’s a big difference between “food waste” as in “farmers destroy tons of food to avoid exceeding quotas” or “supermarkets throw away this much edible food because it doesn’t sell”
and “food waste” as in “it is not actually within the capacity of humans to perfectly predict and track household food consumption, so a certain amount of food per household inevitably goes bad and has to be thrown out every year”
the idea that food waste is the product of thoughtless consumers rather than corporate greed is really insidious
Recently read “Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck. The fact that corporations still throw away so much perfectly good food is not only infuriating but down right evil. This book is still relevant nearly 100 years later.
