Waste Much More Food In The United States

The book, American Wasteland: How American Throw Away Nearly Half of Its Food, written by Jonathan Bloom, deeply describes the situation of food waste in America. The author, Bloom, starts off the book by mentioning that each day America squanders enough food tone fill up the Rose Bowl, the football stadium in Pasadena, California (xi). Bloom even brings out a specific number to prove that how much food were wasted in the United States, which is 160 billion pounds annually (xii). From that description and figure, we can see that food waste problem is really serious today.

With the seemingly unstoppable growth of the world’s population and a projected global population of nine billion by 2050, the matter of whether or not there will be enough food to support the world’s populace is brought into question (Parfitt, et al., 2010). However, amid the concern for an adequate food supply, there is an immense amount of food waste produced by the world, including the United States. In fact, “according to the Natural Resources Defense Council as much as 40 percent of all food produced in the United States never gets eaten and typically ends up in the landfills or goes unharvested in the field “(King, 2015).

Food waste is an environmental, economic, and ethical problem that can lead to less calorie intake and unnecessary damage of our assets. Individual behavior can redesign food waste at home and lead to bigger changes in the ecosystem. The problem is Americans throw out more food than glass, paper, and plastic. Also about 25% of food grown, processed, and transported in the US will never be consumed. When food is disposed in a landfill it rots and becomes a significant source of methane— a potent greenhouse gas with 21 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide.

Our more developed countries in the world expects basic human needs such as food and water, which we have plenty of; North America and Oceania produce the most food waste in the world (640 pounds of food person/year). We worry that in many years from now as the population keeps increasing we won't be able to produce enough food for the world's population, but, we have enough food. we need to appreciate our food and not waste our food. I feel strongly about the issue concerning our production of food waste because I was not born in Canada, I still have family from where I was originally from and not all people are fortunate with food and water like it is in Canada. Even in Canada's big cities we would see big restaurants wasting tons of food daily and people who are homeless on the streets of Canada.

Looking at the Impacts of Food Waste, In general by wasting food that’s mean we are wasting our money but in different way. . At the same time it is impacting us financially it’s also playing a huge role in the problems we see happening to our environment. The US Environment Protection Agency said, “Generating food waste has significant economic as well as environmental consequences. Whether you’re an individual, family, or business, chances are a considerable portion of your budget goes towards buying food — either for you, your family, or your customers. And since we now throw away more food than anything else, that means we are throwing away a lot of our money.” (“Basics,” par. 2) They went on to say that wasting food does more than impact our economy; it also impacts our environmental severely. We need to look at other countries and see what they’re doing with their food waste mistakes and do them same in our country the

The United States of America is arguably known as one of the most cultural and distinguished places around the world when dealing with food. There are so many contributions that give people this impression. People look at the United States as if it has the ideal method on how to deal with food, not knowing that the United States of America is quite wasteful. Although the United States of America has this awe-inspiring impression on people, you should not be fooled. America is a leading country for food waste, this is problematic because there are millions of people in this country that could use this food, and it is also harmful to the environment. In fact the United States of America ruins so much food it can fill up to seven hundred and thirty football stadiums. About as much as forty percent of food in America goes uneaten giving me the impression that America is wasteful when it comes to dealing with food.

In the U.S., we are blessed with a sufficient amount of resources, especially food. Food is literally at everyone’s fingertips; people can order food efficiently off of their cellphones, and due to this abundance, it has caused many Americans to be very wasteful with their food. According to feedingamerica.org, “An estimated 25 – 40% of food grown, processed and transported in the US will never be consumed.” Not only that, but rotting food causes more greenhouses gases to be released in the air

Food waste has an immense negative effect on our economy and even our environment. Our environment is taking a hit from all the extra greenhouse

We were not actually discussing the issue of food waste but were talking about the amount of food families in different countries consume in a week. In order to make it clear my professor showed us pictures of different families from around the world with the amount of food they consumed in a week. The families in developing and underdeveloped countries consumed the least amount of food processed and the most out of those families were from Democratic Republic of Congo which is not very surprising but what was the most astonishing fact was that the United States ranked the number one spot in the amount of food intake per week. Comparative to the world’s two most populous countries in the world China and India, United States consume way far more food than it needs. All the surplus food does not serve any benefit to the hungry and poor, instead it is delivered to a dumpster. For example, at a farmers market in Asheville, North Carolina all the unsold tomatoes are dumped (Elizabeth Roytes). These unsold fresh tomatoes are dumped not because they are unsold or are not edible but because there isn’t enough space to store these

In the first place, wasted food is the reason for large percentage of the wasted water. It takes way more water than people think to grow crops. That crispy salad, or those bright orange carrot take gallons upon gallons of water to produce, yet we just toss them in the trash. Eliza Barclay in the article "When You Waste Food, You're Wasting Tons Of Water, Too" states that "Inside the 1.3 billion tons of food wasted every year worldwide is 45 trillion gallons of water." She also said that, "This represents a staggering 24 percent of all water used for

Fourteen percent of American households don’t know where their next meal will come from. That means if you had ten people in a room, one-two of them would be scared for what they’re going to eat that night. Those are sad odds, right? But even more depressing, twenty-five million people could be fed each year if we threw away only fifteen percent less of food than what we normally carelessly toss in the trash can. The concept of saving food is easier said than done. I’m not saying that everybody should always ship their half-eaten PB&J to needy orphans in Brazil, but we certainly do pitch more food than we used to. America is in a constant struggle with food waste.

In the United States, wasted food is a 165 billion dollar problem. America wasted 33.79

Wasting food is a bad habit that affects all of society and we continue to implicate ourselves in the problem. Of the total of food loss that is going on about 40 percent is in the household. Overall a typical household of four loses about 600 dollars in food a year. (Jones 11)

If someone in the U.S buys 90 watermelons, how many of those watermelons will he throw away by the end of the week? According to organizations like the Food and Agricultural organization, one-third. Now 30 watermelons out of 90 are already is a wasteful example, but when considering the effect of the total amount around not only in the U.S but most developed countries food waste, it's an insane and ridiculous amount of loss. The effects of food waste have huge impacts, not only for the fact that the food being waste isn’t being provided to people in need, but it is also both a financial problem and environmental issue. A lot of organization trying to teach households how to reduce or even stop food waste, some have

In America, we are constantly surrounded by abundance. Food is a prevalent waste item in the United States. Most people do not think about the resources it took to produce, transport, and prepare the food they throw away. Our food waste is not actually just trash; it is the key to human survival. Ordinary consumers can change the future with one small action: to stop wasting food. Actions at the individual level can decrease food waste and feed those in need. Twenty five percent of purchased food is thrown away. (TED) Often this is because food has spoiled, but it can be for other reasons such as oversupply, misread labels, or individual consumer shopping and eating habits. http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3347e/i3347e.pdf