This powerpoint displays various food waste and insecurity issues that plague the United States. I urge individuals to explore the importance behind these issues, and to adapt to easy food recovery strategies.

1. Words and Questions!
• Gleaning
• Culling
• Essay Question:
• Describe the process of culling and how it
affects food waste. Additionally explain how
food waste can be remedied by food rescue
methods such as gleaning.
Danielle Logoluso

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Food Waste, Food Insecurity, and
Food Recovery
1. Community Service Fair
1. CalFresh— Fresno Food Distribution group and food
stamp provider
2. Food Distributions and Gleanings coordinated by the
organization

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Food Waste
1. Food waste is a huge problem in the United States
1. Estimated that nearly 40% of food that is grown, processed,
and transported will never be consumed

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At Home
On the Go
In stores
43 billion pounds
1. So why is food wasted?
1. Certain foods never get harvested, reach stores, or get
purchased
2. At home
1. No pre-planning of meals
2. Over-shopping/impulse shopping
3. Not understanding food expiration dates
3. On-the-go
1. Leftovers aren’t taken into consideration
2. Overpack your plate
4. At the grocery store
1. food items never get purchased— so they are simply thrown
away
2. 43 billion pounds of food wasted in store waste
3. based on consumer
1. they want abundance, perfection

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Culling
6 billion pounds1. Ugly food
1. grower’s can’t market ugly food— too ripe, too
many spots, too small, too green
1. Culling: is the sorting or
segregation of fresh harvested
produce into marketable lots,
with the non-marketable lots
being discarded
1. According to an
estimate by Feeding
America, more than 6
billion pounds of fresh
produce go
unharvested or unsold
each year

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1. Inglorious Fruits and Vegetables
1. 3rd largest French supermarket chain
created the campaign
2. 2014— helped the un-perfect and ugly fruits/
vegetables become marketable
1. Supermarket purchased products that
were normally unharvested from local
growers
3. Produce was sold at 30% discount
4. Produce received their own labels, aisles,
and designed soups/juices
5. Sold out
1. 1.2 Tons sold on average per store,
during the first 2 days
2. 24% increased store traffic
2. Increased awareness about food waste
3. http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/
2014/12/09/369613561/in-europe-ugly-sells-in-
the-produce-aisle

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25,000 tons
1. Massachusetts
1. commercial food waste disposal ban
2. Recycling works
1. works with businesses to show them
various recycling and food recovery
options they have
1. repurposing— through redistribution,
composting, anaerobic digestion
3. How it works:
1. if you produce more than 1 ton of food
waste per week, you are required to
identify a way to reuse that food
4. Accomplishments
1. 25,000 tons donated to food banks
5. Goal: Educate
1. reduce 2 million tons by 2020
2. reduce 5 million tons by 2050

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Water, Methane,
and Landfills
1. Food wasted is water wasted
1. 1.3 billion tons of food wasted every year
worldwide is 45 trillion gallons of water.
1. This represents a staggering 24 percent
of all water used for agriculture.
2. Fruits and vegetables are the largest
source of loss and waste on a weight
basis
2. Methane is produced from food rot
1. 21 times the global warming effect of carbon
dioxide
3. Rotting food builds up in landfills
1. costs billions of dollars to dispose food
waste in landfills
2. more food reaches landfills than any other
municipal solid waste

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Food Insecurity and Hunger
1. Food insecurity: Food insecurity is formally
defined as “the state of being without reliable
access to a sufficient quantity of affordable,
nutritious food”
1. In 2010, 48.8 million Americans lived in food-
insecure households.
2. 1 in 6 Americans face food insecurity

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1. How is food insecurity measured
1. Food Secure
2. Food Insecure: worry, stretch, juggle
1. may not know where next meal comes from
3. Low Food Insecure
1. not knowing where next meal comes from, same meal over and over again
1. i.e. macaroni and cheese, beans, etc. every night
4. Very Low Food Insecure
1. reduced food intake of children and adults

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http://map.feedingamerica.org/county/2014/overall/california/county/fresno
1. Fresno maps of localized hunger
1. 1/5 Fresno citizens food insecure

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I. Fresno State
Student Cupboard
A. on campus
donation and
distribution
center
B. 1/3 Fresno
State students
goes hungry

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Risk Factors
1. Risk factors associated with food insecurity
1. individuals who are food insecure are
increasingly prone to being more anxious,
depressed, susceptible to illness, and
academically behind

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Food Recovery
1. Simple ways to address the
food waste listed above
1. At home— pre-plan
shopping and check
expiration dates
2. On the go— take home
leftovers; have a second
meal, less food to shop for
3. Understand that it’s ok to
consume ugly fruit
1. work toward lessening
culling

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203o Goals
+ =
Food waste cut in half!
1. EPA and USDA plan to cut food waste in half by 2030
1. 133 billion to 66 billion pounds of food waste
2. similar programs to Massachusetts

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Food Rescue

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Gleaning
1. What is gleaning
1. is the act of collecting
leftover crops from farmers'
fields after they have been
commercially harvested or
on fields where it is not
economically profitable to
harvest.
2. Remember the 40% of food
wasted? A lot comes form
unharvested produce

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BackgroundThe Gleaners,
Jean-François Millet, 1857
Gleaning
by Arthur Hughes
Alawite woman gleaning in 1938
1. Biblical references
1. Old testament references gleaning on
several occasions
2. Early Europe
1. Individuals had the right to use and enjoy
another's property on the understanding
that this use would be without
destroying, damaging or diminishing the
property.
2. Early form of a welfare system

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Pomegranates Lemons Oranges
http://www.cuesa.org/eat-seasonally/charts/fruit
1. Gleaning in my own home
1. I have excess produce that definitely goes to
waste, and that can be donated to local
organizations
2. You can easily identify what fruits/vegetables are in
season through the link below

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http://www.foodpantries.org/ci/ca-fresno

21. Questions?