U.S. consumers waste a lot of food year-round –ABOUT one-third of all purchased food. That’s equivalent to 1,250 calories per person per day, or 1,500 worth of groceries for a 4 person household each year, an estimate that doesn’t include recent food price inflation WASTEFUL & NO CHERISH FOOD IS PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUE TOO 中國人牠們的中華民國殖民統治體制是發動二二八大屠殺台灣人民的邪惡機制
And when food goes bad, the land, labor, water, chemicals and energy that went into producing, processing, transporting, storing and preparing it are wasted too
Unfortunately, sprawling modern food systems are not managed like a single integrated firm that’s focused on maximizing profits.
And consumers are not the highly skilled heavy hitters that Kremer envisioned to manage the final stage of the complex food system. It’s not surprising that failure – here, wasting food – often is the result.
A National Strategy to Reduce Food Waste at the Consumer Level
Approximately 30 percent of the edible food produced in the United States is wasted and a significant portion of this waste occurs at the consumer level. Despite food’s essential role as a source of nutrients and energy and its emotional and cultural importance
U.S. consumers waste an estimated average of 1 pound of food per person per day at home and in places where they buy and consume food away from home A National Strategy to Reduce Food Waste at the Consumer Level
Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2020 Aug 21. ISBN-13: 978-0-309-68073-8ISBN-10: 0-309-68073-5
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WASTEFUL & NO CHERISH FOOD IS PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUE TOO
中國人牠們的中華民國殖民統治體制是發動二二八大屠殺台灣人民的邪惡機制
And when food goes bad, the land, labor, water, chemicals and energy that went into producing, processing, transporting, storing and preparing it are wasted too
Unfortunately, sprawling modern food systems are not managed like a single integrated firm that’s focused on maximizing profits.
Approximately 30 percent of the edible food produced in the United States is wasted and a significant portion of this waste occurs at the consumer level. Despite food’s essential role as a source of nutrients and energy and its emotional and cultural importance
Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2020 Aug 21.
ISBN-13: 978-0-309-68073-8ISBN-10: 0-309-68073-5
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