food waste
‘Plants are the new meat’
Traditionally a side dish, vegetables are moving to the center of the plate, says the NPR blog The Salt, adding, "it appears that plants are the new meat."
Reduce food waste through tax credits and new labels
Maine Rep. Chellie Pingree unveiled legislation to reduce food waste "with a system of new tax credits and a redesign of food expiration date notices," said the Bangor Daily News.
Climate change likely to worsen global hunger
One out of nine people in the world endures chronic hunger now, and climate change could put as many as 175 million additional people at risk of undernourishment by 2080, says a U.S. paper released today in Paris.
Milk by the bag at school, not by carton
For most U.S. schoolchildren, milk at school comes in a waxy half-pint carton. Golden Hills Elementary School, near Omaha, is trying something different, says Modern Farmer - milk in a bag. School officials say there is less waste with bags than with cartons.
U.S. launches drive to cut food waste in half
The federal government announced the U.S. Food Waste Challenge, a campaign to reduce food waste by 50 percent by 2030. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the average family lets $1,500 in food go uneaten every year.
Longer lunch period means less wasted food
When lunchtime at school gets shorter, students eat less of their meals and discard more food, said the New York Times in summarizing a study of 1,000 children at six elementary and middle schools.
French law obliges grocers to donate unsold food to charity
A new law in France requires supermarkets to donate unsold food to charity rather than destroy it, says the BBC.
Root, root, root for the farm cellar
In northern Minnesota, a second-generation farmer "is putting a modern twist on an old-fashioned idea that could help scale up the local food economy in the region," says Civil Eats.
“Food stories are everywhere,” says MSNBC’s Tom Colicchio
Chef and food activist Tom Colicchio achieved celebrity on the TV show "Top Chef" and now is food correspondent for MSNBC.
Food waste is global issue, not just a rich-nation problem
A report from the Waste and Resources Action Program says food waste is becoming a global problem with the expansion of middle-class consumers, says the New York Times.
“Rebuild a food system from the bottom up”
The eight-minute film "Man in a Maze" opens with an aerial view of fresh produce being dumped into a landfill at the Mexico-U.S. border, and ends with an aerial view of a community garden.
UN creates on-line database on how to reduce food loss
Three UN agencies joined to launch a database on the Internet of proven methods to reduce food loss and waste, which now claim one-third of food production each year.
Food loss is low on US farms, high in other countries
Grain loss on the U.S. farm is less than 2 percent compared to 10 percent in some countries in Africa and Asia, says Harvest Public Media in its series about food waste. Thanks to good storage facilities, a speedy transport web and efficient harvesting practices, loss and wastage is low on U.S. farms and throughout the developed world. A UN report says 40 percent of food waste in developed countries is at the retail or consumer level while in developing countries, 40 percent of food waste is on the farm or during processing. An ISU professor says the on-farm losses in developing countries could be from 25-30 percent.