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Food Glorious Food
That cauliflower? Not white enough. This asparagus? Too spindly.
Those tomatoes? Wrong red.
Too small, too large, wrong shape? Dump it, toss it, trash it.
Forty percent of food grown in the U.S. — amounting to $165 billion per year,
ends up in landfills and emits methane,
thirty times more potent than carbon dioxide as a heat-trapping greenhouse gas.
Twenty-five percent of food we squander would supply three meals per day
to forty-three million people —
equal to every woman, man and child
in California and Oregon. What’s in your landfill?
