Study casts doubt on food waste ‘facts’
Nearly every article on food waste includes these stats: 40 percent of food in this country, worth $165 billion, is wasted each year. But a study from the University of Minnesota’s Department of Applied Economics and published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics says that those numbers are only estimates and may actually be inaccurate. “The biggest issue the… » Read More
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