{"id":5285,"date":"2023-05-26T18:56:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T01:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.pirg-test.com\/california\/?post_type=article&p=5285"},"modified":"2023-05-26T15:58:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T22:58:53","slug":"how-much-food-does-america-waste-and-what-can-we-do-to-stop-it","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/dev.pirg-test.com\/california\/articles\/how-much-food-does-america-waste-and-what-can-we-do-to-stop-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How much food does America waste and what can we do to stop it?"},"featured_media":47803,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":false,"_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-description":""},"campaign_tax":[],"display_option":[],"issue_tax":[],"person_tax":[259],"region_tax":[],"state":[7,2],"topic_tax":[149,157,147],"class_list":["post-5285","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"details":{"helper_taxonomies":{"topics":[147,149,157],"collection":false,"press_type":false,"person_type":false,"resource_type":false,"event_type":false,"campaigns":false,"department":false,"level":false,"states":[2,7],"act_option":false,"display_option":false,"primary":{"topic":149}},"featured_image":47803,"caption_override":"","excerpt":"America wastes up to 1,000 pounds of food per person each year, enough to feed millions. There are simple policy changes that could help.","updated_on":null,"sidebar_action":[5283],"hide_hero_image":false,"sidebar_action_query_string":""},"helper_people_group":{"title":"Authors","entities":[{"type":"dynamic","dynamic_person":{"site":4,"people":"201"},"information":{"name":"","image":null,"role":"","biography":"","contact":{"twitter":"","facebook":"","email":"","phone":""}}}]},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"The United States wastes roughly 35% of its total food supply each year.<\/span>\r\n\r\nLet that sink in for a minute: For every 10 pounds of food that is grown, harvested, processed, distributed and then sold, more than three pounds ends up getting thrown away or discarded. That adds up to around 1,000 pounds of food per person each year.<\/span>\r\n\r\nAnd according to the United Nations, globally we could feed a whopping 2 billion people with all the food we produce but don\u2019t end up using. That\u2019s twice the number of undernourished people in the world \u2014 meaning if we reduced the waste, we could (with the right distribution system) theoretically feed the world on the same amount of food we produce now, or even less.<\/span>\r\n\r\nAnd it\u2019s not just that we could feed the hungry with all that food \u2014 the resources involved in creating that waste are staggering:\u00a0<\/span>\r\n

Food waste wastes more than just food<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nEvery year, the resources committed to wasted food alone include:<\/span>\r\n