food pantries
sastyk | March 28, 2010Half of all food waste in the developed world happens at the consumer end - that is, we throw the food that we've purchased or grown away for some reason or another. It spoiled from mishandling, it gets wasted, or for some other reason goes uneaten. We're rarely conscious of this - just as we are rarely conscious of the enormous impact of personal actions at every level. Divide American food waste among 300 million people, and dumping that apple or tossing those fries just doesn't seem like a big deal.
A very small minority of American food waste happens at the farm and field end - this is…