Coming up on this mini episode of the doctor's pharmacy research has even shown that just being aware of food waste

That's why advocacy is such a big part of our work just being aware of the fact that food waste is of challenge

Can make people start to reduce their own food waste in their homes?

Hi, I'm Kea Perot one of the producers of the doctor's pharmacy podcast

Food waste is one of the largest problems of our time in the US alone

We waste upwards of 40% of our food and amount that if recovered and redistributed

Could feed 190 million adults in this mini episode

Dr. Hyman talks about this problem and the ways it is being addressed with Kavita Shukla and Paul Hawken

Kavita is the creator of fresh paper a simple innovation taking on the massive global challenge of food waste by keeping food fresher longer

Paul Hawken is executive director of project drawdown a non-profit dedicated to researching when and how global warming can be reversed

Food waste is a big problem. Yeah

We

Based on estimates anywhere from a third to half of our food is wasted. In other words, we grow food we

Put food in supermarkets. We try to distribute food and half of it ends up in landfills or worse

We actually weigh six billion pounds of food at the farm because food is not perfect

Six billion pounds are thrown away every year in America at the grocery store and it's

It's it's because they're ugly ugly food. It's a misshapen apple or a funny looking watermelon or something

This doesn't get into the

Into this shells talk about why food waste is such a problem like who cares it goes in the landfill

You know it goes back to nature like why why is an issue? Yeah, well, you know one of the things that I was surprised to hear is that the average American family

Actually loses over 1500 dollars worth of food. That's just wasted

So when you first think about just the fact that people are saying it's difficult for them to be able to afford a fresh healthy diet

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