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Learn how sustainable farms raise healthy animals using practices that benefit the environment and bolster local economies.

Like that it is talking about feeding animal the food that they normally would eat and they are grass feed making it more beneficial for the animal and the taste of what the animals are going to be used for better and more nutritious.

This is an interesting article to learn what is behind our meat. It is great that they are actually fed what they normally would, and that they don't deprive them of that.

America's economy and lifestyles have been shaped by the low prices and availability of energy. In the last decade, however, the prices of oil, natural gas, and coal have increased dramatically, leaving consumers and the industrial and service sectors looking for ways to reduce energy use.

This article is about the idea of using and incorporating alternative ways of transportation into our lifestyle. Also shows the consumer barriers and attitudes towards the concept of this.

The Writer in this website goes over the idea of food waste and understands that many people like to brush it off, if it was no big deal. The article describes the affects of food loss and simple ways to prevent it.

This article talks about the how much restaurants waste. It talks about how they don't realize how much food is being thrown away. One restaurant owner took away the garage can to teach the employees about not wasting food. They saved a lot of food because every time they have to throw something away they have to ask. It also talks about the odor that comes off of dumpsters. It is then take to landfills where the garbage breaks down into methane to damage peoples health. Its not only the producers who are wasting its also the consumers.

A major problem we have today is that food waste is a low priority for restaurants and nobody is doing anything about it.

This article explains that restaurants find food waste a low priority. This happens because as a restraunt you always have to be prepared if its slow or busy. If its busy then great you wont have any food to be thrown out but if its slow you have to throw away that days production.

These date that are shown on food items are only simply suggestions by the manufacturer as when the food item was at its peack quality, and not labeled as when it is unsafe to consume. Food Mareketing Instiute did a survay on the confusion over eperation dates. As a result of this surevay they were able to discover that nine out of then Americans lead to needlessly food and is being thrown ayway.

This website is about Americans throwing away 165 billion dollars worth of food; shown by studies and statistics. It is also about how all Americans waste food including consumers and restaurants.

The NRDC have recently reported that most Americans discard 40% of food per year. As for our average American families ends up throwing away $2,275 annually in food a year. Little as 15% reduction in losses of food waste could save enough to feed 25 million Americans a year.

this web page shows and tells the number of food waste people consume and waste a year . not only do they explain the waste of food but also the resource to produce those food much as money energy and time

The food waste is starting to affect our environment. With the food being wasted daily, the need for more food is strict and the more access to food, the more people are becoming obese. Food is energy and we need energy to survive.

This article discusses the amount of freshwater and oil that's being consumed by food waste. The article also discusses the mathematical model to find the amount of freshwater and oil being consumed.

This piece of writing discusses how Nestle continuously strives for improving environmental performances. Their goals include: The topic, their commitment and their short-term goals. Some of their topic they focus on are like water, climate change mitigation, energy efficiency, biodiversity, waste and recovery and compliance.

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.

Here is a quick review about food waste, how we can preserve our foods and make use of leftovers and what we buy as a consumer. Just because some foods may have blemishes doesn't mean that they can't be consumed or used for cooking.

This article is about the "Think, Eat, Save" program that will change the way food is sold, processed, transported, harvested and even consumed.

This article talks about how wasting food also causes the waste of energy and water. It gives a graph of the total percentage of food wasted and food consumed. 

40 percent of food in The United States today, goes uneaten. They talk about statistcs and what should and can be done to avoid food waste.

A quick overview of how much energy and resources are wasted with food waste. It goes over how Europe is already making efforts to improve food waste and why America should follow suite and how it can benefit our country.

Here are a few tips on how we as consumers can contribute to food sustainability. Even though the article is a European one, does not mean we cannot take some notes.

Why sustainability can benefit everyone, from the employee to the consumer.

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.

In this article by Ronald Bailey he discusses the problem and gives an average of how much food is being wasted; he also gives supported statistics from researchers across the nation. He also discusses the reason why Americans waste food and includes why it needs to be stopped.

One of the issues we waste food is because the wealthier we get, the more we unconsiously spend money at restaurants and at home and then waste food. The issue of wasted food is not on the radar of Americans.

This article suggests different strategies to limit our population. Heavily taxing everyday consumer items may help lower population. If the population lowers than the likely hood of lowering the impact is low.

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.