The problem is that many restaurants are hesitant to donate unused food because they're afraid they'll be liable if someone gets sick when eating it. (inc.com)
During the third annual Food Waste & Hunger Summit, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack drew attention to efforts like The Campus Kitchens Project, which engages college and high school students to gather unused food from dining halls, grocery stores, restaurants and farmers» markets and deliver it to the less fortunate. (champions123.org)
Unlike most studies that focus just on production emissions, our assessment calculates the full «cradle - to - grave» carbon footprint of each food item based on the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated before and after the food leaves the farm - from the pesticides and fertilizer used to grow animal feed all the way through the grazing, animal raising, processing, transportation, cooking and, finally, disposal of unused food. (treehugger.com)