Food To Waste (The following story comes courtesy of Hunger In
The Golden State a collaboration between, the Annenberg School
for Communications and California Watch. For more stories and
multimedia reports, click here.) It's a sad paradox: while
California's abundant fields of fruit and vegetables fuel much
of America, millions of tons of food rot in farm fields or
grocery store and restaurant dumpsters, much of which is edible
and could go a long way toward eliminating hunger in California.
by Tina Mather, Kim Daniels and Shannon Pence Farmers,
restaurants and supermarkets throw away millions of tons of
edible food each year at a time when a growing number of
Californians struggle to put food on the table. State studies
have found that more than six million tons of food products are
dumped annually, enough to fill the Staples Center in Los
Angeles 35 times over. Food is the largest single source of
waste in California, making up 15.5 percent of the Golden
State's waste stream, according to the California In