Americans only eat 59 percent of the food they buy, according to a new study, which says they spend more each year on wasted food than property taxes, gasoline, or new clothes
A new study suggests American food consumption may be three times more wasteful than past research had showed.
The study was conducted by Zach Conrad of the Department of Health Sciences at William & Mary University, who found the average American consumes only 59 percent of the food they pay for on any given day, with the rest going to waste.
This waste amounts to around one pound per person each day, with an estimated daily cost of $3.62, more than three times the $1.07 figure a 2008 study of American food waste reached.
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the math doesn't add up. 3.62 wasted a day, and we waste 31% of the food, so do they think we spend only 10/11 dollars a day on food. I eat a lot more than that.
ReplyDeleteNot at my house!
ReplyDeleteObesity is number one death in USA. This also includes China flu.
DeleteNot at our house either. 59%, that’s ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteMy children eat 100% of what I buy - two teenage boys... keep hands and feet well clear during feeding time!
ReplyDeleteWow. Just imagine how much larger they would be if they ate it all!
ReplyDeleteAnd that was before the hysterical run on food and TP.
ReplyDeleteMOST of the hoarded food will be wasted.
Sick but true.
manufacturers scam us with aggressive use by dates
ReplyDeleteYeah sure. The average person wastes a POUND of food a day. This is BS.
ReplyDeleteHey, ya gotta admit...America IS the SUPER SIZE ME king! I've been to 6 different countries, and ALL of them cant believe the amount we eat, and toss in the trash. Heck, just park at a Walmrt, or wherever and I promise ya, 70% of the customers are borderline morbidly obese...just saying
ReplyDelete7:23 Those are the people in Walmart driving the fat mobiles.
ReplyDelete8:34 Dang, now it all makes sense lol :)
DeleteDon't worry, I'm sure Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell eat the 41% of food people throw out. It's quite easy for me to imagine those two gargantuan land-whale reprobates wallowing in people's garbage cans like the garbage they are. Like syphilitic rats.
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