1 . America has more than enough food for everyone to eat. But each year, billions of pounds of perfectly good food go to waste. Meanwhile, 34 million face hunger in the United States.
As the country’s largest food rescue organization, Feeding America partners with food manufacturers, grocery stores, restaurants, and farmers to rescue food and deliver it to food banks serving our neighbors.
Each year, 108 billion pounds of food is wasted in the United States. That equates to 130 billion meals and more than $ 408 billion in food thrown away each year. Shockingly, nearly 40% of all food in America is wasted.
Food goes to waste at every stage of food production and distribution from farmers to packers and shippers, from manufacturers to retailers to our homes. Food waste in our homes makes up about 39% of all food waste—about 42 billion pounds of food waste, and commercial food waste makes up about 61% of all food waste or 66 billion pounds of food waste. Feeding America focuses on reducing food waste on farms and in food service, manufacturing, and retail.
Last year, the Feeding America network and our partners rescued 4.7 billion pounds of groceries. That food went directly to meals for people facing hunger. This makes Feeding America the largest food rescue organization in the country.
Food rescue, or food recovery, is the practice of collecting high-quality food that would otherwise go to waste and distributing it to people facing hunger. We work with manufacturers, retailers, and farmers to reduce food waste and get rescued food to people in need.
We identify food at risk of going to waste, offer rescued food to food banks, safely ship food over long distances and keep food fresh longer once it reaches a food bank.
1. What do we know about the food in America?| A．It is barely enough. | B．It is quite abundant. |
| C．It is easily available. | D．It is increasingly insufficient. |
| A．Consumes. | B．Multiplies. | C．Wastes. | D．Equals. |
| A．By making comparisons. | B．By listing reasons. |
| C．By presenting data. | D．By offering examples. |
| A．It teaches people how to grow food. | B．It saves food from being wasted. |
| C．It urges government to take action. | D．It aims to relieve world hunger. |
2 . It is reported that half of the food the world produces is never eaten but thrown away instead. Wasteful people in rich nations, however, are not the only food buyers. Poor countries, too, are throwing out perfect good food. According to Elliot Wooley, a professor who studies at Loughborough University, what should be noticed is that developed and developing countries have different causes for their waste.
Because of few food production methods, in developing countries, food is usually wasted while it is still in the field or during the storage and transportation process, but once food is sold, people usually eat everything they buy. In the United States and other developed countries, people throw away as much as half the food they buy.
Such a change among countries calls for special solutions. Professor Wooley’s answer to food waste is a smart-phone app that he created. It would inform people of how many goods they have bought, how long they will last and so on. At the international meeting held last month in Vietnam, the professor said the result from an experiment shows that people who used the app cut down the amount of food they wasted by 34 percent.
But Jeremy, a student from Germany thinks Professor Wooley’s app is not enough to prevent food waste. “It might help those who already want to change the way they use the food they buy, but it could also encourage them to waste more because they no longer have to pay attention to how much food they buy,” Jeremy said.
“The problem is that as food is getting cheaper, people are buying more food than they need, which will surely result in a huge waste,” Jeremy added, “so one way to prevent food waste is to persuade people to stop buying too much food in their first place.”
1. Which of the following is TRUE about food waste?| A．People in rich countries are more likely to waste food. |
| B．People in poor countries don’t value food at all. |
| C．Some countries waste food before it is sold. |
| D．All countries waste food before it is sold. |
| A．By using his app, food waste could be reduced. |
| B．By encouraging people to save food. |
| C．By informing people of the amount of food they buy. |
| D．By educating people to save food since childhood. |
| A．he has developed another app to prevent food waste |
| B．the app could only apply to those who plan to save |
| C．it will surely decrease more food waste |
| D．people still haven’t realized how serious waste is |
| A．Buying food without control if it is cheap. |
| B．Persuading people not to throw away food. |
| C．Making laws to forbid people to waste food. |
| D．Persuading people not to buy more than they need. |
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