Internet research

From the questions that others and i have come up with in class, i decided to answer only one, "how much food do americans actually waste? i did some research and found a very valuable source from the "http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/weekinreview/18martin.html".

"In 1997, in one of the few studies of food waste, the Department of Agriculture estimated that two years before, 96.4 billion pounds of the 356 billion pounds of edible food in the United States was never eaten. Fresh produce, milk, grain products and sweeteners made up two-thirds of the waste. An update is under way."

When thinking about it, Grocery stores and restaurants are all over the place, and each play a role when being wasteful. Grocery stores throw away food or gallons of milk over small blemishes or dents on the product. Restaurants throw away food in the end of the day or whatever they do not use. And the comsumers, being us, throw away "anything from a banana turned brown to last week's chinese leftovers". Americans are extremely wasteful and evereything we throw away ends up in our landfills. According to the NewYork TImes, Americans waste 27% of the food that can be consumed.