American Wasteland

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 10, 2010

Jonathan Bloom discusses our culture of excess and looks at our history and habit of wasting food. In American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It), Bloom writes about working at grocery stores, a fast food chain, and at a food recovery group, and speaks with experts to discover why and how we waste, and what we can do to change our ways.

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