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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Chew on it: Americans throw away 40% of food
  • Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:10:10 -0700


Chew on it: Americans throw away 40% of food
AGENCIES 28 November 2009, 01:35am IS
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Chew-on-it-Americans-throw-away-40-of-food/articleshow/5277225.cms

Even as millions of people starve worldover, residents in United States are
wasting food like never before.

While many Americans feast on turkey and all the fixings on Thanksgiving, a
new study finds food waste per person has shot up 50% since 1974. Some 1,400
calories worth of food is discarded per person each day, which adds up to 150
trillion calories a year, reports Livescience.
http://www.livescience.com/culture/091126-food-waste.html

The study finds that about 40% of all the food produced in the US is tossed
out.

Meanwhile, while some have plenty of food to spare, a recent report by the
department of agriculture finds the number of US homes lacking “food
security”, meaning their eating habits were disrupted for lack of money, rose
from 4.7 million in 2007 to 6.7 million last year.
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=true&contentid=2009/11/0575.xml

About 1 billion people worldwide don’t have enough to eat, according to the
World Food Program. http://www.wfp.org/hunger

The new estimate of food waste, published in PLoS ONE says: “It’s the
difference between the US food supply and what’s actually eaten, which was
estimated by using a model of human metabolism and known body weights.”





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