PROFESSOR SCORES U.S. FOOD WASTE
The fact that one-fourth of the food produced in the United States is allowed to go to waste is an indictment of the carelessness and extravagance of the American people, Prof. Charles W. Hauck of Ohio State University, said recently.
Pointing out that the food wasted annually in this country could feed the five New England states or the hunger-ridden countries of Belgium, Holland, Greece and Czecho-Slavakia, Prof. Hauck told a meeting of the Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers Association estimates indicated that more food has been wasted each year than was consumed annually by our armed forces and lend-lease shipments combined during the war.
He described research being conducted jointly by the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station and a large food store chain to try to check waste through mechanized trimming and packaging of fresh fruits and vegetables in transparent sealed units.
“We hope that our work, which is available to all distributors, will lead to a reduction in this shocking waste which in leafy, green and yellow vegetables runs as high as 43 percent”, he said. “The loss occurs all along the line—on farms, in packing houses, processing, transportation and storage; in wholesale warehouses and retail stores, in consumers’ homes and public eating places.”
~ Bellwood Bulletin, 24-Jan-1946, Page 3, Columns 5 & 6
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