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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.

Americans waste up to 40% of the food that makes it onto grocery shelves, into their kitchens or that crosses their plates, which makes the potential consequences of the ongoing drought even more painful.That waste costs close to $165 billion per year. Indeed, the average American family of four throws out about $2,275 in food every year,

SustainableBusiness,com explains the issue of food waste in America with facts and details. Then gives two reasons on how address the problem. It also lists another website for data concerning food waste problems in America.

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.

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.

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.

This article talks about how Americans waste so much food from the grocery stores to restaurants and they still think of something else that is going to hurt their pockets.

Light Bulbs,Plastic Bags & Baggies,Batteries,Tattered Clothing,Ink & Toner Cartridges. I never thought some of these things couldn't be recycled. This article gives you the importance why not to recycle and how to discard of them properly.

Underlining issues with going green such as expense, lifestyle change, time.

Food processors don't talk much about food unless its in volume or price. They don't see the other side of how much is wasted because of their disregard to harvest it as well as to get rid of the unsuitable food in the right manner. No one understands the ethical, environmental, and economical problems that arise with food waste.

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 website is home to individuals who work with companies to create solutions to problems concerning sustainability. They can be hired to work with a company and create custom solutions to the problems with sustainable methods a company may be experiencing.

The Abbott group helps companies create value through the development of innovative solutions to environmental, social and governance challenges.

Established in 1987, SustainAbility helps to give current information on sustainability

Americans throws away 470 pounds of food each year. Americans trash 40% of our food supply, valued at about $165 billion, every year.

Fast food restaurants are known to be the number one cause of litter. It is a problem when it comes to recycling because of the styrofoam.

It seems that Bloom is a major source when it comes to food waste because this is the second article that quotes him. This article gives statistics and information everyone should be aware of. They also give this great example of how America has a great obesity problem and that they say to chuck away the last few slices of that pizza instead of eating them!! Wrong! maybe we should just not buy the pizza if we do not need to eat it! The examples just show how we don't really think twice before throwing food away.

This article talks about how America is on board with recycling, but its priorities have mostly been cardboard and plastic. It talks about how we don't pay attention to one of the most important problems food waste. NATH Sustainability Solutions is an involved organization that works with schools and restaurants and they bring awareness to the people about food waste.

We all tend to cook too much over the holidays to have a nice table spread, well the problem is we all tend to cook to much everyday and buy too much food when we really do not need that much. This article gives you tips to do, not only for the holiday season but maybe something we can try everyday!

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

The media is one of the best way to stop food waste today because everyone can be inform quickly. It informs us about the different between losses and waste. Food losses occure at the food production systems while food waste is more a problem of consumers throwing good food into the trash.

This article is similar to American Wasteland. It tells of how and when food is wasted and what we can do to improve this waste problem.