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The age-old practice of ‘gleaning’ is feeding people during the pandemic
Food insecurity in the United States skyrocketed when the COVID-19 pandemic began, leaving emergency food distributors scrambling to provide enough to those in need. To help fill the gap, organizations around the country have doubled down on the age-old practice…
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How Denver is tackling food waste to fight hunger, climate change
With more people staying at home, food waste has grown across the country. Even before the pandemic nearly $281 billion worth of food was thrown away. Special Correspondent Allison Aubrey reports on the aggressive effort by Denver, Colorado, to tackle…
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Making NewsHour Weekend: A year of reporting on the “Future of Food”
This year, the NewsHour Weekend special series “Future of Food” covered global efforts to produce and consume food sustainably and ethically. The producers behind the series, Megan Thompson and Melanie Saltzman, joined Hari Sreenivasan to discuss their reporting and how…
Chef Kwame Williams prepares zero-waste broccoli coleslaw
Do you ever throw away parts of various vegetables, because you’re sure they're no good? You're not alone. Americans waste up to 40 percent of the food they produce. During a recent visit to the James Beard House in New…
According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, about 204 million pounds of turkey meat will be thrown away this Thanksgiving. That’s an estimated $293 million worth. As we continue our look at innovative solutions to food waste across the country,…
In the U.S., 30 to 40 percent of food produced never makes it to a dining table. Much of that waste ends up in landfills. But some companies are pursuing new techniques to reduce and redistribute surplus -- plus process…
If food waste were a country, it would be the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases behind China and the United States. NewsHour Weekend's Megan Thompson sat down with Elizabeth Balkan, director of food waste for the Natural Resources Defense Council,…
For now, the problem isn’t that there’s not enough food on the planet to feed everyone. The problem is how much food is wasted.
Inconsistent and unclear date labels are causing U.S. consumers to discard tons of food that is safe to eat.
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