Food Waste Blog Posts

This week on the New York Times Well blog, Tara Parker Hope wrote about how much food Americans waste. It got me thinking about how much money, energy, and landfill space is wasted when food is thrown away.

You know how it is-- eating with children unfortunately increases waste, massively. Their tastes change like the wind, and you never know when they will devour copious amounts of food (read: Mac and Cheese) or not (anything new). But this is a problem, especially in America, where it is estimated that 1/4 to 1/2 of all food produced in the USA is discarded. That is obsene! Read more...