網上資料:美國一年扔掉近500億美元的食品,佔所有食品的三成。
In the United States 30 per cent of all food, worth US$48.3 billion, is thrown away each year.
以下來自美國聯邦食品藥物署網站:
In the United States, food waste is estimated at between 30–40 percent of the food supply.
諷刺的是,美國聯邦農業部說:
美國有近四千萬人,其中1,200萬兒童,每天餓肚子。
According to the USDA, more than 38 million people, including 12 million children, in the United States are food insecure.
My friend works in food test firm and they select randomly a few baby-milk cans to test among thousands of food cans, and trash all other cans. SO she often gets the 'trashed' cans and give her friends and those cans may worth hundreds or thousands of dollars each time. She saves lots of food cans and save lots of money for her friends and I think she is doing good things for the society and country and world!