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Learning about sustainable food and the problems with factory farming can be daunting at first, but, with a little effort, you can quickly learn enough to make the safest and wisest food choices for you and your family.

This article talks about the effects of waste that is created by the animals in industrial size farms. The gases that are poisoning the envirornment and the people .

College students found a way to use unwanted food by putting back into the ground on their farm. From farm to plate and back to the farm.

Wealthy countries wasted food because they tended to buy too much of it. Nevertheless, some countries were making this situation more seriously to reduce food waste at the consumer level in markets.

This article doesn't just go over the harmful things that are being created but the industrial waste but also goes over things we can do to help.

With all the food that is being wasted, it goes to the langfills, which in case creates a powerful greenhouse gas by the name of methane. The waste isn't just occuring when we throw it away after we're done with it. Waste happens before it even hits our dinner tables.

According to the author, food were wasting everywhere and every many ways. For instance, there was 1.6 million tons of food waste because of the food appearance. However, the BBC article seem wasn't care much about the waste.

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.

This paragraph was about how customers of farm's markets and grocery stores in city of Pittsburgh supported Maggie Henry' fight for drilling natural gas that affected Pennsylvania counties.

In this website a article is written by Grace Interlichia, the article explains that people often mistake sustainability for giving up living pleasures such as desired foods, homes and cars. But in reality its not giving up what people loath but instead creating a better way to live by fuel friendly cars and sustainable farming.

This article gives readers insight to our aim of living style sustainably. For example transportation, and farming. There are also other recommended articles to read relating to this topic.

while this is a good article it gives room for argument.

the journey from the farm to the store to the dinner table, nearly half of America's food never gets eaten. most households throw away about 50 billion dollars' worth of food each year.

The amounts of fruit,vegetables,orchards, and food in general and how researchers find distrubing to see all this food go to waste in california. The belief that the problemsof food waste start in the field of the farmers growing it and why it is the problem due to the retailers hard to pass requirements.

Grocery stores and restaurants still wasting food that they know to be unsafe. It is said in this article that Safeway doesn't donate food items that are not fit for consumption. In this case it can be a health problem to the consummer of these food.

State students have studied that with the yearly food waste, it can fill the Staples Center in Los Angeles bout 35 times. How much is that? It's more than 6 million tons. There is a hunger relief program that most grocery stores donate to.

Food recovery is retrieving edible food that would go to waste and giving it to those in need. The food that is picked up is donated by supermarkets, restaurants and farms. Things like day old bread and things that are past the "sell by" dates but still in great shape are donated.

This is a great website for everyone to see because it can help us see that there is people out there trying to make a change. Farm share is an organization that recovers food from being thrown out. They repack and send the food to shelters, churches, and other organizations that help the hungry.

Great article about recognizing the link between animal and human diseases. This is scary stuff. Agriculture and health are intimately linked. Many infectious, and even occupational, diseases are associated with the food chain.

This article is about reducing food waste by rising the price of the food. Tackling food waste could solve many of the sustainability such as linkling food losses and waste to food inflation, food security, resource inputs adn climate change.

This article is more in a diagram form. It tells you were all the produce starts and gives you the different steps. At each level it gives information about different food waste or the resources we are wasting in America. This table/article is neat to look at if you're a visual person.

This article is how much produce the world waste. Often times produce is left to rot in the farm lands where it is being grown. You ask why? If the certain product isn't the right shape, color, size, or feel right it is left. This is because the consumers won't buy the product if it looks a little funny. If it makes it to the store the grocer does sales, promotions and other things to have consumers buy more. This then results in waste at home because often times consumers won't use all the product. It goes on to talk about how we can change food waste from happening and other issues within the food waste topic.

This is a website that introduces the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). This group of people want to be sure that the agriculture being farmed is safe and healthy.

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.