From a story on Ynetnews, citing Emily Broad-Lieb, Director of the Food law and Policy Clinic of Harvard Law School, speaking at a conference in Israel.
"Environmental impacts are also prevalent. Broad-Leib mentions that the agricultural industry uses 70-80% of the water in the U.S., while 20% of this water goes to watering crops that will eventually be thrown away.
Since a third of the greenhouse gases emitted in the U.S. comes from this industry, the third best way to reduce this is by cutting down on food waste. Right now 30-40% of food all food is wasted in both the U.S. and Israel."
It's particularly important in this season of produce abundance to share, preserve, glean - and if those don't work, feed chickens and pigs, or compost.
It's only "Food Waste" if it ends up in the landfill.
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