Marion Nestle

I took 700 pages to do the same thing.

Well, that's why I think food systems thinking is so important.

Our food system in the United States produces 4,000 calories a day for every man, woman, and little tiny baby in the country.

That's roughly twice.

what the population needs on average.

So waste is built into the system.

Yeah, why though?

Because that's how the subsidies work.

The agricultural subsidies encourage food producers to produce as much food as possible because they get paid for the amount of food that they produce.

10% of the waste occurs at the supermarket level, surprisingly little.

Supermarkets have gotten really good at inventory control.

They're very, very good at it, and there's very little supermarket waste.

You think there's going to be a lot.

They're going to be throwing away a lot of produce, but they really don't.

And then 20% of it is at home, and that's something we can do something about.

But it's only a small part of the problems.

It's a much bigger problem.

It's a systems problem because it's built into the system.

Not that I can think of offhand.

There are countries in Europe that are much smaller than us, and they are somehow able to manage these kinds of things a lot better than we do.