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12/21/2018 / By Mary Miller

The REAL meaning and purpose of expiration dates on food

Food date labels are often a death sentence for the food item in question. They judge the food items with the words “best before,” “use by,” “sell by,” and so on. The numbers written on the tag are an ever-present warning that their time is limited. Little by little, they slowly count down the food’s […]

10/01/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Researchers look into more ways of turning food waste into good livestock feed

A lot of perfectly good food goes to waste every day, especially in developed countries. Researchers believe that some of that food waste can be converted into animal feed for livestock, a biological means of recycling food into a fresh supply. Redirecting otherwise wasted food to animals would reduce pollution associated with this wastage. It would […]

06/08/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Foraging wild edibles a growing trend – can it also help fight hunger?

It looks like foraging, a crucial survival skill, can soon be used to help fight food insecurity. Foraging has become a profitable craze, and everyone from chefs to cooks to craft brewers are now harvesting wild and local ingredients. Wild edibles like berries, dandelion greens, mushrooms, and nettles are in demand, and a recent peer-reviewed study […]

03/06/2017 / By Tracey Watson

Researchers: 9% of the world’s food supply is thrown away or left to spoil

Unemployment and rising food costs have resulted in about a billion people around the world going to bed hungry every day – that’s nearly one in seven people who is officially starving. This problem is only likely to worsen, since the global population is growing at an unprecedented rate, and the United Nations Department of […]

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