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