Hello and welcome to the food waste edition of Slate Money Food, our little mini series on

the economics of food.

We are this week going to be talking not just about food waste frankly, but also just

about the whole supply chain of the food system and the kind of damage it can do to the environment and we have

Austin Brunyarski who has written and researched this for years and we are going to

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to eat more of what we buy, and whether any of that really makes a difference.

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Okay so we're going to talk about food waste. Austin, tell me who you are and what you know about this subject.

So I am a writer and a researcher with a background in food systems. I live in New Haven, Connecticut where I'm also involved in a number of community-based food systems efforts, including our Food Policy Council.

My interest in fascination with food waste came about as a student of food systems and was the topic of my graduate school work.

Okay, so let's start with some of the things that we know about food waste, which is often presented in sexy

infographics. This seems to be one of the most infographic friendly subjects in

the world. Completely.

And the things that we know is that we throw out

a bunch of perfectly good food,

we being both families and restaurants,

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