Waste: Why Is So Much Food Wasted, part 2 (video)

By Cooking Up a Story

Should food be treated as a precious commodity, or simply a commodity when expedient to just throw out? Jonathan Bloom, journalist, and author of Wasted Food Blog, believes food is too valuable to waste. In this segment, Bloom offers some suggestions for supermarkets on ways they can reduce the tremendous amount of food that gets thrown into dumpsters. He points out that in other generations, food was considered important, and a conscious effort was made to reduce waste. With all the hunger and starvation that occurs, conservation of food may offer an effective, relatively low cost solution toward addressing this problem. Do you think food is too important to be treated as just a commodity? How did your parents view food on the table?