When I tell people that 40 percent of the food that is produced in this country is wasted, they are usually shocked.
Recognizing the extent of this problem, USDA and EPA announced the first food waste reduction goal last year--a 50 perce...
support the Food Recovery Act, introduced by Representative Pingree.
I introduced a bill last week that has a pretty simple proposal: create two labels--one that says 'expires on' for food ...
The Food Recovery Act introduced by Rep. Chellie Pingree (H.R. 4184) tackles food waste from a variety of angles.
Our idea is to ask the USDA and the FDA to work together to create a label, one that says expires on, for those foods th...
We actually submitted a bill last week with Senator Blumenthal about date labeling to try to bring some sensibility into...
In my own state, we have a supermarket chain that is also committed to zero food waste.
It would create much less waste, something that most of us agree on, and you will find most of the manufacturers and oth...
And when there is confusion around date labeling or how food can be disposed of, with the good Samaritan laws that we ha...
There is certainly no single way to go about solving this problem, and I know as you dig deeper into it today and you he...
Making sure that there are Federal funds available to municipalities who want to do that is another part of this.
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we do have 50 million people in this country going hungry.
It is wonderful to see that the USDA and the EPA together have announced a food waste reduction goal.
I would like to thank Chairman Conaway, Ranking Member Peterson, and Members of the House Committee on Agriculture for h...
40 percent of the food, as you mentioned, is wasted in this country.
I think you'll agree it's unconscionable that so much food ends up in landfills.
