
Waste Not; Want Not - USDA Reports on Food Waste
Waste Not; Want Not Waste not; want not — that’s what our mothers always said.
So you can imagine our surprise when the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s released a study this month showing that about 31 percent — or 133 billion pounds — of the 430 billion pounds of the available food supply at the retail and consumer levels in 2010 went uneaten.
As that sinks in, remember that more than 2.6 million Pennsylvanians qualify for food assistance programs, according to an Ameri