The Unsettling of America

Berry, Wendell. The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture. San Francisco, CA: The Yolla Bolly Press, 1977. Print. 

- from Lippard's bibliography

- The main thing I gathered from this text was about the agricultural revolution, but I find this interesting to compare it to today's food waste books especially in the fact of how food has become devalued due to society not being as involved with their food as they used to be. 

Food Waste

Evans, D., Food Waste: Home Consumption, Material Culture and Everyday Life. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. Print

Chapters 2-4

- buying more food than necessary

- status and appearance 

- anxiety from food safety 

- wanting food to be optimal

- blaming children - fussy

American Wasteland

Bloom, Jonathan. American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and what we can do about it). Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2010. Print

Chapter 4

- free food programs create waste - overcompensation

- even children who can't afford food don't like it & have an abundance of it, so it gets wasted

- idea that we learn this idea of wasting food from school at a young age

- overabundance of food = devalue of food

- portion sizes & overeating food 

Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal

Stuart, T. Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal". New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2009. Print. 

Chapters 4 & 5

- In the U.S. there are no federal laws requiring date labelling on food, except for some baby foods

- the government prefers instead to focus on educating the public about how to treat food safely

- dating some food is required by more than twenty states

- this causes cacophony within the United States

- People buy more food than they can possibly eat

- "Good Mother Syndrome" - always wanting to make sure food is plenty & choice

- the way we feed children determines how much food we waste

- unconscious of food wasting

Waste Matters (One Chapter)

Evans, D., Campbell, H., and Murcott, A. Waste Matters: New Perspectives on Food and Society. Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons, 2013. Print. 

From Arbiters of waste: date labels, the consumer and knowing good, safe food

- history of date labelling system in the UK

- "she described how the guidance would 'end the food labelling confusion' and 'make it clear once and for all when food is good and safe to eat' -- Why did this happen though?

- "the date labelling system reflects societal anxieties about the food system and incorporate changing understandings of the consumer role - from concerned housewife, to neoliberal agent of food safety, to environmentally responsible actor" 

- freshness and stock management

- the consumer's right to know

- ensuring food safety 

- waste and uncertainty 

- decision tree for labelling

The Natural Kitchen

Tull, Deborah E., The Natural Kitchen: Your Guide to the Sustainable Food Revolution. Port Townsend, WA: Process Media, 2010. Print.

Chapter 2 -

Just from skipping ahead to the second chapter of the book, the most central theme of the book is the author's journey as a "Zen monk". The piece definitely uses persuasion as a writing tool.
- "ACCORDING TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, THE average American produces about 4.4 pounds of garbage a day"
- U.S. produces 30% of the world's trash.
- U.S. consumes 30% of the world's resources. 

Chapter 3 - 

FOOD WASTE AND COMPOSTING

- Shop responsibly (I feel like this is something that not a lot of people do)
- Teaches how to make a compost

Overall, this book was only helpful for small tidbits.

Food Waste Article #2

Hall, K., Guo, J., Dore, M. and Chow, C. "The Progressive Increase Of Food Waste In America And Its 
      Environmental Impact." Plos ONE 4.11 (2009): 1-6. Academic Search Premier. Web. 6 Oct. 2015.

The above graph shows some research done on the progression of food waste over time. Clearly, the numbers are increasing. Part of this may have to do with the fact that food production has also increased, but food waste has still been on the rise even with that factored into the equation. 

The article focused on the United States and - honestly - had a lot of math towards the end of the article, which made it all the more confusing to me. Also, this seemed to focus more on the weight gain of Americans versus food waste and its environmental impact, as I assumed it would be based on the title. 

This did make me think back to Just Eat It when Grant Baldwin was saying that he had gained 10 pounds in the process of only eating food waste, but other than that and a few iterations of the sheer energy that is wasted by wasting food, this article was not fantastic in adding to my research.