Food Waste Challenge

Today is World Environment Day and the theme is Think, Eat, Save, an “anti-food waste and food loss campaign encouraging everyone to reduce their foodprint”. In keeping with that the USDA and the Environmental Protection Agency have collaborated to reduce food waste by launching the U.S. Food Waste Challenge. Anyone “with a stake in the U.S. food chain” can be an FWC participant. That means producer groups, processors, distributors, retailers, manufacturers, industry groups, food service, state, county and city governments and other Federal agencies. While only organizations such as these will be considered formal participants, the overall goal is to raise awareness among individual consumers as to the vast amount of food wasted in our country on a daily basis, and what each one of us can do to reduce, recover, and recycle food waste. It will be interesting to see what groups participate in the Food Waste Challenge. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could all put a huge dent in world hunger within our lifetimes, so that perhaps by the time our children’s children have children world hunger is something only read about in the history books.