Food Waste and Hunger in America
The sustainability of the United States food system is being undermined by an alarming problem: While 41 million Americans experience food insecurity each year, nearly 40% of food produced in the United States goes to waste. (That’s enough to fill Giant’s Stadium to the brim with food waste 2 times every single day!) The worst part is that the majority of this food is still perfectly edible, nutritious, and delicious at the time it is fed to landfills instead of hungry mouths.
The ERC team through our Food Rescue Initiative is working hard to assure all the food our campus produces is fed to people, not landfills. We go to our campus’ dining facilities, package up their overproduced food, and deliver it to SF nonprofits before the food is wasted!
We call these Food Rescues and we carry them out every week!
The ERC team is on a mission to change the way our campus respects and relates to food, and we’re inviting as many students to join us as possible! We’ve created two ways for students to take a stand against this massive environmental and social issue.
