It's true: 40 percent of food in the US gets wasted somewhere between the farm and the table. Food waste happens in the field when crops are left unharvested because they don't meet grocery stores' cosmetic standards of perfection. It happens in distribution when food isn't transported or stored properly and is left to spoil. It happens in retail when food sits on the shelf for too long. And it happens at home, when we buy more than we can eat, or we're confused by label dates and discard perfectly edible food.
According to Natural Resources Defense Council scientist
Source:: Bay Area Bites
