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Food Waste: WHY DO WE CARE?

Array ( [0] => HONR Think Tank Spring 2016 [1] => no-show [2] => student exhibit )

Social Impacts of Food Waste

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World-wide Hunger Statistics
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Percentages of average wasted food broken down into seven categories
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United States Hunger Statistics
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Impacts of America's wasted food
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Utah Hunger Statistics
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Infographic showing where food gets wasted
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Cache Valley Hunger Statistics 
1.Hunger Statistics. (2016). Retrieved March 23, 2016, from https://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats
2. Coleman-Jensen, A., Gregory, C., & Singh, A. (2014, September). Household Food Security in the United States in 2013. Retrieved March 23, 2016, from http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err-economic-research-report/err173.aspx
3. Gunders, D. (2012, August). Wasted: How America Is Losing Up to 40 Percent of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill. Retrieved March 23, 2016, from https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/wasted-food-IP.pdf
4. Map the Meal Gap: Food Insecurity in Utah. (2016). Retrieved March 23, 2016, from http://map.feedingamerica.org/county/2013/overall/utah 
5. Map the Meal Gap: Food Insecurity in Cache County. (2016). Retrieved March 23, 2016, from http://map.feedingamerica.org/county/2013/overall/utah/county/cache

6. Perkins, M. (2015, February 5). Students Going Hungry. Retrieved March 23, 2016, from http://usustatesman.com/students-going-hungry/