11-28-2009, 01:04 AM
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Avalon Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: back in Minnesota
Posts: 500
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Re: The most sickening article I've read recently!
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The NEW estimate of food waste, published in the journal PLoS ONE, is a relatively straightforward calculation: It's the difference between the U.S. food supply and what's actually eaten, which was estimated by using a model of human metabolism and known body weights.
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Previous calculations were typically based on interviews with people and inspections of garbage, which Hall's team figures underestimates the waste.
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From the article.
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