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California Ag Today
“If you imagine that all of our country’s surplus food is grown in one place, this mega-farm would cover an area the size of California and New York combined," says ReFED's Minnie Ringland.
Southeast Regional Ag News
Looking at the data, the United States generated 91.2 million tons of surplus food in 2023, which was 38% of total production.
California Ag Today
“Radically inefficient” is an uncomfortable phrase when used to describe our United States food system, but it is what is being used by ReFED, a U.S.-based nonprofit working to pinch off food waste.
Southeast Regional Ag News
In the United States, over a third of our food supply goes unsold or uneaten.
Southeast Regional Ag News
ReFED, a national nonprofit with a focus on reducing waste in the food system, estimates that 312 million pounds of food was and is going to be wasted by Americans this year linked to the Thanksgiving holiday.
Southeast Regional Ag News
As we work so hard in agriculture to produce food for the world and know that there is also a sector of folks right here in our own country that are food insecure, the fact that so much food is wasted is a hard pill to swallow.
Southeast Regional Ag News
From Shawn Shepherd of ReFED, "What we're throwing away could feed every hungry American six-and-a-half meals."