There is no free lunch. But well-fed consumers often act as if there is Food waste may not be the cause of the hour, but it is getting a lot of attention these days. A Place at the Table, both a documentary and a companion book about hunger in the United States, recently debuted to critical acclaim. A recent report by a CBS station in Los Angeles created quite a stir after showing a video from last year of 13,200 boxes of Girl Scout cookies being destroyed in a Riverside, Calif., warehouse that were later transported to a landfill; the practice apparently has been going on for years. And universities throughout the country have been holding workshops about food waste, designed to remind...
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