About how much does America or any other country waste when it comes down to food? A whole lot, in an interview a guy name Tom Smith, an anthropologist who’s been studying food waste for the pass 10 years states that about 9 billion kilos of food is wasted each year. And this waste comes from convenience stores are running about 26%, fast food restaurants about 10%, regular restaurants, full service sit down restaurants about 4%. Supermarkets are very efficient - less than 1% loss rates. When you look at their garbage it looks really high but that's because they handle a lot of food.
    It also states that households lose about 450 billion pounds, the retail food industry about 54 billion pounds and we haven't fully calculated the exact weight of all the farm losses at this point but it's runs somewhere around $25 to $30 billion. If we calculated all the waste that we make we could possibly feed other countries with it.   
    But the question is why is so much food being wasted? It is stated, “The core reason, and it's all the way through from the farms to the retail industry to the household, is that Americans have lost touch with food. We have been away from the farm for so long that it's not something that we consciously think about, it's just there.” Said by Tom Smith. This is true when you go back in to time when everyone was farming or getting their supplies from farms. However if we go back to farming are our people who are starving now still be starving or will they eat? The food we waste here has to stop, but how does it. We waste a huge amount of food here and don’t even know it. The problem is we have too much food. Since we have too much why not give it away!