4 Tips to Save Money and Reduce Food Waste
It’s Earth Day, so a lot of attention is being given to ways that we can protect this planet that we all share and are going to need to feed us in the years to come.

4 Tips to Save Money and Reduce Food Waste
It’s Earth Day, so a lot of attention is being given to ways that we can protect this planet that we all share and are going to need to feed us in the years to come.
Bloomberg News reported last year that 15,000 record temperature highs were reported in the United States during the month of March. Things haven’t really let up, impacting everyone from farmers to families.
And while we still don’t have an official consensus here in the United States as to what is driving this change in the weather, one point is clear: it is impacting our food system.
In the face of unprecedented drought, hurricanes, tsunamis and tornadoes, our nation’s farmers are doing everything they can to deal with this climate disruption.
And the issue can not be addressed quickly enough. A recent Gallup poll showed that 35 percent of the public reported being affected by extreme weather in the past year.
This erratic weather doesn’t care what side of the aisle we are on. It takes out entire towns and communities in one fell swoop and decimates crops and growing seasons.
A recent report from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that one-third of all food produced globally is thrown away. And it’s not just happening in our kitchens, it’s happening across the food production system, including agriculture, postharvest, processing, distribution and consumption.
As the report states, “This inevitably also means that huge amounts of the resources used in food production are used in vain, and that the greenhouse gas emissions caused by production of food that gets lost or wasted are also emissions in vain.”
And while you don’t hear much about it, it turns out that industrialized countries waste almost as much food as the total amount of food produced in sub-Saharan Africa.
Americans throw away 96 billion pounds of food every year, or 27 percent of the total amount of available food. That’s 3,000 pounds of food a second.
So while the biotech industry is hard at work in laboratories manufacturing demand for their products, claiming we need their genetically engineered and economically-motivated products, it turns out that a key factor in addressing the needs of a growing global population in an increasingly disrupted climate might be 