When discussing food production in America, a lot of images come to mind. Images like the picture above. Or this:

And sometimes this:

A lot of the discourse related to food in America is connected to images like this.  However, there’s one other image that doesn’t seem to come up as often…

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, Americans throw away more food than any other material.  In fact, the EPA found that the U.S. generated over 36 million tons of food waste in 2012, and a recent study by the Food Waste Reduction Alliance found that 25-40 percent of food grown in America ends up rotting away in our nation’s landfills.  Not only is this wasteful, but rotting food generates significant amounts of