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it's wednesday december 7th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. How less confusing food labeling and perhaps more food-based curriculum in schools can mitigate the huge problem of food waste. Plus, a new web-based simulator that will show you exactly how screwed you are

if an asteroid hits your hometown. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

Ahead of Thanksgiving this year, food waste non-profit refed estimated that the U.S. would waste 305 million pounds of food

after the big meal. Individual cost-wise, we're talking about $15 in food waste for each dinner

for 10 people. Altogether as a nation, that's about $450 million.

Or enough food to make about six and a half meals per person for the 38.3 million food insecure people in the country.

And on an individual scale, going beyond Thanksgiving,

we're talking about $1,300 a year in wasted food.

As Harvard Law Professor and Founding Director of its Food, Law and Policy Clinic,

Emily Broadlebe told NPR's All Things Considered earlier this year,

the amount of food and average household wastes per week is basically the equivalent of going to the store,

buying three bags of groceries,

and then immediately putting one of those bags in the trash.

And it's not just the impact this is having on our inflation tightened budgets

or the impact it could be having on helping out the food insecure among us.

It's also having a huge impact on the climate.

A recent piece on food waste in the Atlantic by Yasmin Tejog pointed out that the annual

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