{"id":31709,"date":"2012-08-22T15:38:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T20:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/?p=31709"},"modified":"2012-08-22T15:38:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T20:38:36","slug":"food-waste-inexcusable-and-unconscionable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2012\/08\/22\/food-waste-inexcusable-and-unconscionable\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Waste, Inexcusable and Unconscionable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

This is a distressing news report:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

We need help: What are three things each family can do?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Forty percent of food in the United States is never eaten, amounting to $165 billion a year in waste, taking a toll on the country\u2019s water resources and significantly increasing greenhouse gas emissions, according to\u00a0a report from the Natural Resources Defense Council<\/a>\u00a0released this week.<\/p>\n

The group says more than 20 pounds of food is wasted each month for each of 311 million Americans, amounting to $1,350 to $2,275 annually in waste for a family of four. Think of it as dumping 80 quarter-pound hamburger patties in the garbage each month, or chucking two dozen boxes of breakfast cereal into the trash bin rather than putting them in your pantry.<\/p>\n

The report points out waste in all areas of the U.S. food supply chain, from field to plate, from farms to warehouses, from buffets to school cafeterias.<\/p>\n

\u201cFood is simply too good to waste,\u201d the report says. \u201cGiven all the resources demanded for food production, it is critical to make sure that the least amount possible is needlessly squandered on its journey to our plates.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most of the waste comes in the home, the report says.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerican families throw out approximately 25% of the food and beverages they buy,\u201d the report says. It cites several reasons, including that food has been so cheap and plentiful in the United States that Americans don\u2019t value it properly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a distressing news report: We need help: What are three things each family can do? Forty percent of food in the United States is never eaten, amounting to $165 billion a year in waste, taking a toll on the country\u2019s water resources and significantly increasing greenhouse gas emissions, according to\u00a0a report from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nFood Waste, Inexcusable and Unconscionable<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This is a distressing news report: We need help: What are three things each family can do? 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