beat food waste GUIDES

Food waste doesn’t just affect the 1 in 7 Americans who go hungry — wasting food also wastes natural resources that native, often endangered wildlife need to survive. 

In fact, the supersized, meat- and dairy-heavy American diet is one of the greatest threats to biodiversity on the planet. 

And it’s no small matter: Americans waste 40 percent of the food we produce — including all the greenhouse gases, air and water pollution and habitat loss that went into producing that food.  

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