This article is very interesting to me. I think alot of consumers have a lack of education when it comes to food, food safety, labeling, and disposal. If it was more well know what expiration dates and use by dates mean im sure more people would throw less away. People need to figure out proper ways of handling food instead of thinking everything will give them a food borne illness. More compost piles should be put into place instead of throwing food into landfills. I have seen many more ads on tv for food waste and think this is a great step for awareness. I think most people are just ignorant to it because they thin its natural it wont cause any harm to the enviroment to throw it away.

I think that it is shocking that people waste so much food yet think that everybody is wasting more food than them. I go to the grocery store and see how much stuff people have in their carts and how much money they spend so it's no shock to me that people waste so much food, there is no way they can eat it all. Maybe they are not aware that they are wasting so much food and how bad it is for the environment.

I just read an article about the amount of food that Americans waste. I knew that it was high, but I never imagined the numbers that people have been putting up for the last few years. Did you know there are people who refuse to eat leftovers? What kind of first world dystopia do we live in where people won't eat food that isn't straight out of the kitchen?

I think that food waste is a large problem.  I think that American's are lucky to be in position of  having more food than they need, but we do need to start thinking about the environment.  I was surprised that the wasted money factor did not get more people to monitor the amount of food waste that they generated.