Food and Beverage: Tell Big Business to Stop Wasting Food!
I read a lot, but I haven’t come across something this massive in a while. To hear that restaurants and markets are throwing away food is one thing. Seeing a figure is another. Every year, restaurants, supermarkets, other food service establishments, and individual households dump an average of 14 billion pounds of food waste. 14 billion pounds of food? Like food, if good health and free dentistry was measurable, I would distribute as many pounds of it. Why aren’t we donating this food on the weekends to people who’re going hungry in this recession, college students who’re not fortunate, and to low income neighborhoods?
