Every year roughly 2.9 trillion pounds of food—about a third of all the food available—never gets eaten. A huge part of this is from crops left in the fields or food discarded during processing worldwide. In the United States and other countries with more advanced food delivery systems, consumers are responsible for a bigger share of lost and wasted food than in developing countries. This mountain of food doesn’t get dumped all at once. It…
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