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About one-third of the food Americans buy is wasted, hurting the climate and consumers' wallets

  • Written by Brian E. Roe, Professor of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University
About one-third of the food Americans buy is wasted, hurting the climate and consumers' walletsWasted food – and land, labor, chemicals, water and energy.ATU Images via Getty Images

You saw it at Thanksgiving, and you’ll likely see it at your next holiday feast: piles of unwanted food – unfinished second helpings, underwhelming kitchen experiments and the like – all dressed up with no place to go, except the back of...

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