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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.

This article is about the sustainability need in the food waste area. This article explain that we should recycle our food by composting and also explain two types of ways to compost.

To achieve a sustainable society then food waste must be recycled as opposed to being sent to landfill sites around the country. We all know the problems that our planet is suffering through global warming that is partly aided by the greenhouse gasses that are produced when food waste is sent to landfill and the ensuing fluctuations in temperature that is suffered around the globe.

I really like your comment Norma i Read the same thing but saw it in a different light. But then after reading about your going green comment i thought about how ironic it is that color is being considered a sustainability method. It is great when you can see something from someone else point of view and get more from something you already agreed with.

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.

If the proper precautions are take place, we can save tons of food from being wasted.

Plant breeders use genes from other plants to improve other plants to make them safe from pests and weather changes.

The online article explains the environmental, economic and social benefits from food conservation. furthermore ways to reduce landfills.

The article discuses ways in how chefs and implying how you can save more food by eating animal parts that most don't. For example cooking food with an animals extremities.

This website is from the Arizona group who have problems since they are a bordering area for distrubution. Your can also see that it has started a branch of food banks to provide them with produce.

(Sent original article to wrong ENG 102 group) I always knew smartphones were handy, but reducing food waste is an all new level of smart! In July of 2012, about 222 millions tons of food was wasted. When solutions were running thin, someone broke though and added the world of technology to our world of waste. An app was created. Yes! Even your smartphone reduces waste now. The app that was created goes based off of household size, recipes, shopping lists, and meal preferences into one to help save Mother Earth from becoming a dump. Read this article to see how the diversity of people is compatible with the newest Smart Solution for food waste!

(Sent original article to wrong ENG 102 group) Ever thought as a college student you could make a difference? Well a group of Students from Pomona's College started to try to save food from being tossed out. They would package it and send it to a shelter to help those in need. 3.7 million adults struggle to put food on the table, but 1.5 million tons of food get wasted and thrown away. Now there is something wrong with that. Donating food to the need has become a solution, but what if your willingness to help out gets turned down? One person turned donation food donations because the fear of rotten food and health code. How are we suppose to help food waste if others are squashing our solutions?

In this article it explains how there are children in need to at least one meal per day and we waste tons of food each day. Another good point on how to decrease food waste is to harvest and crop your own vegetables and fruits. This article also explains how if you have some food left over you can try to juice it, or chop it and be able to eat it.

This article talks about the food wastage from an environmental perspective and where wastage happened. It also explains what food wastage causes, and give three general levels where action is needed, these three are reducing food wastage, recycling and recovery.

In this article it explains all the negative sides of food waste, how it harm the climate, water, land, and biodiversity. It also explains how the food waste starts from the bottom, poor harvest, distribution and consumptions. This article gives you an overall picture of how bad is food waste.

This article explains a group of people that take food from stores that is getting thrown away and hand it out to the hunger. I find this very important because instead of the food being wasted someone is taking a stand and giving to the need instead of the dump. So we are killing two birds with one stone in this process.

This PDF file gives an insight about the different levels that food is lost. It gives statistics and impressive facts about food waste. For example "Americans are throwing out the equivalent of $165 billion each year, but also 25 percent of all freshwater."

This article talks about Malaysia switching to incineration because there's not enough space for landfills. The article also explains the amount of energy received from food waste and how its not that much compared to the cost.

Pope Francis tells an audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, that "Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry," he said.

This article talks about different well known colleges using different methods of sustainability. Different colleges have only used food from the local area, composting waste, energy saving techniques through out the college campus, etc. This article goes goes through each college and tells you about how the college has change to become more sustainable.

This article breaks down different facts about plastic waste. It talks about the process of recycling plastic and benefits of recycling plastic. this author gives statics on how much plastic is wasted and recycled. He also talks about what what they do with plastic after it is pick up from curb-side or drop off centers.

this website gives tips to stop wasting. anything from food, water, electricity, etc.

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.

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.