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in 2010, 48.8million Americans live in food insecure households.19.4 percent of households in Mississippi are the highest food insecurity. the highest it has ever been.

Dana was a town girl and in very difficulty family. However, after she has traveled through Southeast Asia has changed her life to see how less food waste there was. When Dana got into College, she started to take action to make American waste valuable.

As the writer explained, we are throwing food away up to 40 percent every year, 10 times as much as Southeast Asia, and up to 50 percent from the 1970s. As the result, people are buying food unawareness or the fast food.

In this article has shown how much it cost for food waste in America. Such as in farm, restaurant, household and so much more. Then, the NRDC report argued that they can do nothing about it because they could not push customer to buy food that they do not want.

"Nearly 80% of U.S. diners surveyed express concern about the amount of food thrown away every day in restaurants, cafeterias and other away-from-home venues." Its really amazing how much food is produce in restaurants its just easy to see why so much food is waste it.

Methane gas traps about 23 times more than heat in our atmosphere than CO2. Landfills are accounted for 34 percent methane gas that is emitted in the U.S. There are plenty of ways to reduce food waste nd it would save you money!

Dana Gunders, at N.R.D.C. she is a project scientist who specializes in food and agriculture. She once stated "This issue has received very little attention in the U.S.," regarding Food Waste. Although some of the bare minimal such as, energy, land, and fresh water all take part in the production for the American consumers.

U.S. citizens have found ways to use their resources faster than they can be replaced. This being based on their every day routines, and interactions with food; one being that they waste approximately 4.6 pounds of trash a day. Environmentally speaking this is not headed in a good direction for America.

I thought that this article was very interesting because it relates to the 10 myths as well. The article is about when bigger countries, such as the U.S. and Europe who decided to move to sustainable growing techniques. The one thing wrong wtih sustainable growing is that we have less to export to poorer countries in need of low cost mass produced foods.

Food waste doesn't just occur by someone simply throwing it out. Food waste happens before it even hits our dinner table. This article discusses the consumption of different foods and the waste.

This article breaks down how America waste food. it gives food waste statistics in America. Its Jonathan Bloom's American Wasteland in an article.

All the waste that has been going on only means that more energy is lost in the form of food than is stored in all the nation's offshore oil and gas reserves. Food waste isn't just harmful to our environment but we're also buring more energy than we can produce.

Timothy Jones, a food waste studier, explained on the news that the total of food waste in the U.S was $155, $55 billion from household, $45 billion from restaurants and $35 billion from farm. He added, American family should cut down the expenses for grocery because most of the family bought food and don't eat them.

In this website it talks about the effects of fossil fuels and pesticides. It also mentions what we can do to help our environment .

This is a pretty good article. It is sad how they mentioned that chemicals which were banned in the U.S. and Europe for being toxic are now starting to be used in developing countries. It is sad to know that there are companies out there worried more about their pockets of "one"(the company) rather then the health and lives of thousnds of people.

In this article it's saying that 20 pounds of food is wasted each month for each of the 311 million americans. That amounts to $1,350 to $2,275 a month.  That's what most people make in a month. Also throwing away cereal that isn't all the way gone, just to clear or make room in your pantry.

This article talks about statistics in food waste in America

A visual is given based on the economy and its land and food production. A cause of America's larger food waste is the growing population. There is plenty of data to support the population growth too.

This pages gives information on how Americans waste half of what they purchase.

Great tips on how to cut down food waste. Cutting food waste how it helps you make yummy food in the kitchen. The last one is important to read.

Original: "Use it up, wear it out, make do, or do without" is a favorite adage in both frugal and green circles, and it is something I strive to live by. One of the best ways to "use it up" is to think differently about our food and ways to avoid wasting it. Lloyd wrote a great post a while back about the statistics for how much food we waste in the U.S., and the numbers are, frankly, appalling. On average, we waste 14% of our food purchases per year, and the average American family throws out over $600 of fruit per year. Paraphrase: Half the loaf of bread goes stale and the grapes aren't as fresh. With an attitude to stop waste and some creativity, you can create new things with your food before it actually goes bad. Left over roasted vegetable can be made into soup and leftover rice can be added into oatmeal the next morning. There are many more ways to reduce waste in your home.

A good site that shows information provided by the American Government. Has different kind of information such as: what kinds of environmental wastes (including food), food organizations nearby ones community,laws and new regulations to improve waste management.

This article talks about how the landfills are harming our environment. this is a very huge issue in America and we need to something about this but its going to require an effort

"Society of St. Andrew" This site talks about food waste in America, Global Food Waste, Environmental impact of U.S. food waste. This site also has links to other informational studies and reports and are helpful with this topic.

This website was about food waste in America which included everywhere such as households, restaurants and so on. American wasted 12 percents of food and only three percents was recovered so the rest of them disposed in landfills.

In this article it gives reasons why so much food is waste in America. After looking at all the food waste and searching through the food that is wasted they noticed most of the people don't know what they throw away.