Excerpt from American Wasteland by Jonathan Bloom, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

You may be amazed by how freely and easily we dispose of food, from farm to fork. But it can be equally amazing how freely and easily we can diminish our vast squandering. To achieve that feat, though, we need to fully understand and acknowledge the scope of the problem.

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