Food Waste In America

Hearing your stomach growling is such an distasteful sound, the feeling of emptiness. The absence of energy, and stomach aches that are caused by not eating in a few hours seem to aggravate you way more than it should. It’s an easy problem to fix though, walk up to the fridge. Tossing the spoiled lettuce, and other leftovers away to get the fresh food in the back. You sit down, and eat as much as you please. Throwing out whatever you don't finish which, can sometimes be a whole portion itself. You feel no remorse, there is more food in the fridge. Nobody is going to starve in the house without that right? While you are correct, nobody in that house is starving; although there are forty-one million, men, women, child, and elderly who would have killed for that. They have to deal with the hollow pit, and scrounge to stay alive it's not just …show more content…
Unfortunately, food waste doesn’t only take a toll on our air quality, but it also affects our water supplies and takes up our land. It was estimated in 2014 that Americans wasted about 38 million tons of food for that year. By throwing out one kilogram of beef, you are wasting 50,000 liters of water that were used to produce the meat. In the same way, nearly 1000 liters of water are wasted when you pour one glass of milk down the drain. However food waste isn’t just the consumers fault, most wasted food happens during the production phase. “More than 50 percent of the waste occurs during “upstream” or the production, yield handling and storage phase and the remaining happens during processing, distribution and consumption stages or the “downstream” phase”, stated by The Move For Hunger. The US alone has about 2.3 billion acres of land for agriculture, in which 40% of is wasted. However, wasting food doesn’t only take a toll on our environment, it also harms our hungry