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The food waste is related to the global warming because the decomposing material from the food destroy the landfill. Also, in this article the auther tell us to avoid wasting food...

"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.

Provides valuable information on how food waste also affects global warming.

This article is about an organization called, "The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. What they are trying to do is come up with ways to produce food with less resources to waste less food.

THis talks about how food waste affects the earth. 

This article talks about the harm we are doing to our environment. It states how the majority of our waste happens in stores.

This article actually quotes our American Wasteland book. It gives statistics that Bloom explains in chapter 2 of AWL

This article explains how wasting food leads to wasting water. Reducing food wastes can help the needs of 500 million people. It also talks about how filling landfills with wasted food only contributes to global warming.

The article talks about global problems related to chronic hunger, increasing population size, and the environmental impact of agriculture. Along with this articles it gives you solutions for thes problems. The author suggests individual to be sustainable.

"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.

I found this article interesting because its talking about how putting our waste in the garbage disposal can reduce the global warming potential. Maybe if everyone could participate in this it could make things bettter

Some more information that can be read on food waste and a little on how it effect price of some foods.

I liked reading this article. It has facts about the all the food wasted, field losses, about economy and the millions tonnes of global food waste each year. It also helps us reading it because it talks about how can we stop the rot.

this article explains how bad food waste is around the world

This article talks about global warming in Arizona and that do to heat heat rising in Arizona it is in a way lower property value. This article reminds me of the myth sustainability is about the environment.

Global warming, depending on who you talk to, is a myth or a fact. People love the fact that they can own some property in a southwestern state such as Arizona, and flock here during the cold winter months. With that being said, the heat is something that drives away potential buyers every year.

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.

Food waste costs you money and we are all guilty of it, but there are ways to make sure all the food you buy ends up on the table.

This website is about a global effort call Unilever Food Solutions North America. They are coming together to help people be more aware of food waste. They are going to give people resources, tools, and skills to help them not waste so much food. They are helping mostly the foodservice industry tackle this problem of food waste.

This talks about how food waste can produce harmful methane gas. It also talk about how this wastes can cause health problems.

We are wasting food while billion of people are hungry in the world. This article educate us about the important of giving food to those who want it.

There are consequences to food waste including environmental, economical, and cultural. The ways to stop this waste are simple sticking to shopping lists, saving leftovers, and composting or donating what you don't want. People are becoming more involved with what they can do to stop this waste, but are they to late?

The effect food waste has on the environment and our living conditions. The importance of composting and recycling.

This displays the problem of food waste. Most of the waste that we see goes straight to the landfill in garbage bags, but others do not realize other forms of waste. Any other form of waste that I thought was interesting was the food waste we put in the garbage disposal. Food waste goes straight to the landfills creating global warming. Food waste cost Americans $100 billion annually. Do people realize how much they waste? Will food waste ever stop?