Angela Lee

Period 6

Hall

February 1, 2019

Annotated Bibliography

Bloom, Jonathan. "Food Waste Fighter: An Interview with Jonathan Bloom." Interview by

Jonathan Specht. ​Food Tank​, Jonathan Specht, June 2013,

foodtank.com/news/2013/06/food-waste-fighter-an-interview-with-jonathan-bloom/.

Accessed 29 Jan. 2019.

This article says a full 40 percent of the U.S. food supply isn’t used. We live in a

throw-away society and our abundant food waste is just another reflection of that attitude.

We still need more definitive data on how much food is lost at each step of the food

chain, but the best estimates are that the two largest producers of food waste are farms

and households. It makes sense because reducing the amount of food wasted is harder.

Really progressive food waste reduction schemes is tray-less dining. Simply removing

trays from all-you-can-eat cafeterias makes it harder for students to take too much. I will

use this interview to support evidence of why food waste is harmful and solution to it.

Brennan, Kelly. ​Reduce Food Waste.​ 13 Apr. 2016. ​Reducing Food Waste at Dining Halls Key

to Greater Sustainability​, Jonathan Friedland, 13 Apr. 2016,

dailybruin.com/2016/04/13/jonathan-friedland-reducing-food-waste-at-dining-halls-key-t

o-greater-sustainability/. Accessed 29 Jan. 2019. This picture shows that wasting food

means wasting our money.

 I will use this picture as show people wasting food is the same as wasting food.

CREDO energy. ​Tuesday Tips​. 2 July 2018. ​Tuesday Tip: Wasted - How You Can Stop Food

Waste​, Indigo Wilmann, 2 July 2018,

www.credoenergy.com/blog/2018/07/02/how-you-can-help-stop-food-waste/. Accessed 1

Feb. 2019.
 This illustration is about what we waste and where they go. In the illustration, there are

many foods are wasting no matter what kind. This illustration shows if foods wasted,

they are going to landfill. I will use this image to provide where they are going when they

wasted by humans.

Dana. "The Environmental Impact of Food Waste." ​Move for Hunger,​ 11 May 2015,

www.moveforhunger.org/the-environmental-impact-of-food-waste/. Accessed 9 Nov.

2018.

This article says food waste that ends up in landfills produces a large amount of methane,

and it heats up the atmosphere causing global warming. Food waste also represents a

great waste of freshwater and ground water resources. It is said that a volume of water

roughly three times the volume of Lake Geneva is used just to produce food that is not
 eaten. Millions of gallons of oil are also wasted every year to produce food that is not

eaten. And all this does not even take into account the negative impacts on biodiversity

due to activities like monocropping and converting wild lands into agricultural areas. I

will use this article to explain the problem with food waste.

Food Waste Landfill​. ​Landfills Have a Huge Greenhouse Gas Problem. Here's What We Can Do

about It​, Erica Gies, 25 Oct. 2016, ensia.com/features/methane-landfills/. Accessed 30

Jan. 2019.

This picture is food waste landfill. I will use this picture as how much of food waste is

going to landfill.

Gholipour, Bahar. "The Psychological Reason Why We Hate Ugly Fruits." ​Huffpost,​ 15 July

2016,

www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-we-hate-ugly-fruits_us_5772aae6e4b0dbb1bbbc1da

7. Accessed 14 Dec. 2018.

This article is about the reason of hating ugly fruits. It says people all want and assume
 that pretty and beautiful thing and human will better than other. Usually, a lot of people

avoiding to buy ugly food. Also, according to the study in the journal Appetite, people

said they liked the meal better and even found it tastier when it was plated attractively

and the first taste is always with the eyes. Our vision also plays a part in how we pick our

meals. I will use this source as a normal people's vision of ugly foods.

KLBD Kosher. "Benefits of Reducing Food Loss and Waste." ​KLBD Kosher​, 26 Mar. 2018,

www.klbdkosher.org/news-and-articles/benefits-of-reducing-food-loss-and-waste/.

Accessed 12 Dec. 2018.

This article is mainly about the benefits of reducing food waste. There are some benefits

to reducing food waste. Firstly, there are environmental benefits. Reducing food waste

prevents approximately 5 tonnes of CO2e from being emitted. A 2013 FAO report

estimated that 28% of the total global agricultural area, as well as 250km3 of blue

water, are used to produce food that is then wasted. Sustainable approaches to food

production can decrease this waste and reduce the carbon footprint of food

manufacturing. Also, by reducing food waste, we can reduce economic loss. I will use

this source for changes after we reduce food waste.

Pini, Peita. "10 Shocking Food Waste Statistics." ​The Swag​, Peita Pini, 20 Apr. 2017,

www.theswagusa.com/2017/04/20/10-shocking-food-waste-statistics/. Accessed 11 Dec.

2018.

This article is about the key fact of food waste statistics. Firstly, we need to reduce food

waste because food waste in America has grown by 204% in 1960 and 90% of food is

thrown away too fast. Also, reducing food waste by just 15% would be enough to feed
 more than 25 million Americans every year. Second, food waste has far-reaching effects

when 135 million tons of food is wasted in America every year, 25% of all freshwater

and huge amounts of energy and land are also being wasted. In addition, huge amounts of

chemicals are being used to produce that food unnecessarily. I will use this source as a

why we need to reduce food waste and effects of food waste in the U.S., also, I'll use this

source as statistics.

"Reducing Wasted Food at Home." The ​United States Environmental Protection Agency​, 2 Aug.

2018, www.epa.gov/recycle/reducing-wasted-food-home#benefits. Accessed 9 Nov.

2018.

This article is about why we have to reduce food waste and benefits and ways to reduce

food waste. If we reduce food waste, we can save money and reduce methane emissions

from landfills. In addition, we can support our community by donating foods. Some ways

to reduce waste are making shopping lists and store things carefully, so we don't throw

away when they are not fresh. I'll use this source to provide benefits of reducing food and

reason of it.

Sengupta, Somini. "How Much Food Do We Waste? Probably More than You Think." ​The New

York Times,​ 12 Dec. 2017,

www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/climate/food-waste-emissions.html. Accessed 7 Dec.

2018.

This newspaper article is about how much food do we waste, why do we waste it and

who waste that. This article said that the less the food wastes, the easier it will be to meet

the food needs of the global population in the coming years. Cutting back on waste could
 go a long way to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Also, food waste means a lot of

water is wasted, too. I used this article to show how bad is it.

SIWI, director. ​WASTE​. 2013. ​Youtube​, SIWI,

www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=QmbaWdslmbI. Accessed 29 Jan. 2019.

This video says we can supply all the hunger people on Earth by food that we wasted.

Food waste affects everyone. Transport in industrialized nations the same share is thrown

away by commerce. The FAO calculates global food waste at 750 billion US dollars,

which is 6 times the amount being spent on development aid. Food waste means that we

are also wasting the resources needed to produce food in the first place from water,

farmland, and energy to labors and investments. Each year food waste sums up to a waste

of water equivalent to the annual flow rate of the Mississippi River. I will use this video

to explain background knowledge of food waste issue and problems of it.

Teshome, Mekael. "How Food Waste Hurts the Economy – and How You Can Help." ​3BL

Media​, 15 Aug. 2017,

3blmedia.com/News/How-Food-Waste-Hurts-Economy-And-How-You-Can-Help.

Accessed 30 Jan. 2019.

This article says how does food waste affect the economy. Globally, people waste about

$1 trillion of food each year, with a total economic impact of about $3 trillion each year

if you consider the environmental and social costs of things like increased greenhouse

gases, water scarcity, exposure to chemicals and reduced profits for farmers. Food waste

also drives up prices, reducing the number of people who can afford the healthy food

they need. Also, this article includes how we can help this problem. Such as store food
 properly, save your leftovers, and track what you throw away. I will use this article to

provide the reason for relationships between food waste and economy.

Tray-less Dining​. 22 Oct. 2014. ​Reducing Waste through Tray-less Dining,​ Nata Atieh, 22 Oct.

2014, www.arlington-tx.gov/news/2014/10/22/reducing-waste-trayless-dining/. Accessed

1 Feb. 2019.

This is a picture of tray-less dining. I will use this picture to provide an example of an act

of trayless dining.

USA Today.​ The Arizona Republic, 30 May 2017,

www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/05/30/why-americans-waste-so-much-f

ood/355864001/. Accessed 7 Dec. 2018.

This article said Americans grocery stores stock only the most beautiful fruits and

vegetables on displays that give the feeling of affluence. It is because the produce

department has some of the biggest profit margins in a grocery store. Also, it says the
 average American loses $371 a year to wasted food. One reason that people waste that

amount of food because they buying too much food. Consumers need to acknowledge

their roles in wasting and then learn how to stop. For example, buying less, or storing

food more carefully so it lasts longer, learning how to cook with leftovers, or not minding

them in the first place. I'll use this article to provide the solution of food waste and

problems that make this issue worse to America.

Victorian Government, editor. "Environmental Impacts." ​Love Food Hate Waste,​ 27 Sept. 2013,

www.lovefoodhatewaste.vic.gov.au/About-your-food/Environmental-impacts. Accessed

7 Dec. 2018.

This article is about secondary damage to food waste. Food waste breaks down in the

landfill; it creates methane, a greenhouse gas. Also, when we waste food, it means also

the resources, used to grow our foods and all the energy used to process package and

transport food from markets to our homes. I use this article to provide to what will

happen when we waste the amount of food in the landfill.

Who's Wasting the Most Food?​ 2 Nov. 2015. ​Understanding Food Waste,​ Jodi Helmer, 2 Nov.

2015, www.fix.com/blog/food-waste/. Accessed 29 Jan. 2019.

This graph is about who’s wasting most food. It says households waste most food, and

industrial waste least food. I will use this graph as show how much do households

wasting food.