Course: WVA 104 Sauces, Condiments & Dressings

Reading

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Wasted: How America Is Losing Up to 40 Percent of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill

By Natural Resources Defense Council

In this reading assignment, students will read and review information regarding the prevalence of waste in the food system. In Wasted: How America Is Losing Up to 40 Percent of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill, the article discusses the transportation of food, which consumes 10 percent of the total U.S. energy budget, uses 50 percent of U.S. land, and 80 percent of all freshwater consumed in the United States. Forty percent of food in the United States today goes uneaten. Americans throw out the equivalent of $165 billion each year, additionally the uneaten food ends up in landfills as the single largest component of U.S. municipal solid waste, accounting for a large portion of U.S. methane emissions.