While the food waste movement across America is gaining momentum, it needs to pick up speed to help tackle one of the globe’s most pressing problems: climate change. Wasting food has irreversible environmental consequences: it wastes the water and energy it took to produce it, and generates g...
Getting to the bottom of what causes food waste in America is a challenge that traverses the complex landscapes of socioeconomic disparities, confusion, and ingrained beliefs, layered with human behaviors and habits. Food spoilage, whether real or perceived, is one of the biggest reasons people t...
food studiesmoralityFood, waste, and food waste are embroiled in a wide array of political and moral debates in the United States today. These debates are staged across a range of scales and sites—from individual decisions made in front of refrigerators and compost bins to public deliberations ...
In addition, it will address the consequences of food waste and the possible problems that this issue may bring in the future. Secondly, the paper will discuss three policy solutions that would help solve the problem of food waste in the United States: provide an enhanced tax deduction for ...
B.FoodintheUnitedStatesisplentifulandlesscostly.C.Theplanaimstogethelpfrompublicandprivateschools.D.Thegovernmenthastoplayamajorroleinreducingfoodwaste.E.Toavoidthepotentialofgettingsick,they'lljustsendittothegarbage.F.Itisreportedthat8millionpeoplegetsickfromeatingthewrongfood.G.Still,thebestwaytocutbackon...
5. 中等 Food waste is a growing problem both in America and across the globe. In North Americ a alone about 30-40% of food ends up as rubbish each year. While much ends up as rubbish, over 48 million Americans live in households that do not have enough food! Now, concerned citizens...
Food waste contributes to excess consumption of freshwater and fossil fuels which, along with methane and CO2emissions from decomposing food, impacts global climate change. Here, we calculate the energy content of nationwide food waste from the difference between the US food supply and the food cons...
American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It) by Jonathan BloomEven as the demand for emergency food assistance rises and one-in-six Americans qualifies as food insecure (Nord, Coleman-Jenson, Andrews, & Carlson, 2010), millions of ...
Crop Swap Missoula: Food Waste and the Sharing Solution American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do about It). Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2010.Raan, ... C Raan 被引量: 0发表: 2015年 Author Jonathan Bloom Digs through the Problem of Bi...
根据文章第四段中“People were most motivated to reduce food waste due to desires to save money and manage their households efficiently.(人们最有动力减少食物浪费,因为他们渴望省钱和高效管理家庭。)”可知,最能驱使人们减少食物浪费的动机是省钱。故选B项。 (4)题详解: 细节理解题。根据文章最后一段中...