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Awareness of food waste can help us appreciate holiday meals

  • Written by Bryce Hannibal, Research Scientist and Lecturer, Texas A&M University
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Americans celebrate the winter holidays in many ways, which typically include an abundance of food, drinks, desserts – and waste. Food waste is receiving increasing attention from managers, activists, policymakers and scholars, who call it a global social problem. According to the...

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