If you’re in the mood for some startling food waste stats on a Monday morning, look no further than this piece gleaning some shockers from the recent FAO report.
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And here’s a followup from that same FAO world waste study–a report on post-harvest losses in sub-Saharan Africa.
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MSNBC weighed in with this piece on how ‘use-by’ dates prompt waste. Not shocking, but it contained this particularly useful passage:
There’s no magical threshold after which a certain food harvested on a certain date suddenly goes bad, Hurd said. “All food has bacteria in it all the time. As that bacteria grows, there’s a continuum along which food becomes more harmful.”
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An Oregon school slashed the amount of food it sends to the landfill by adopting–wait for it–a pig!
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During lunch with Jodi Bart, the woman behind the Tasty Touring blog, I tested out a new acronym to help folks trim their waste. Let me know what you think…
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