America Really Wastes 40% of Our Food?

This probably doesn't make starving people in a slum in Mumbai or East Africa hate America any less.

In 2012, an NRDC study found as much as 40 percent of the country’s food supply goes uneaten. The cost of that wasted food? Roughly $165 billion, including $900 million in "expired" food. A family of four, the study found, spends an average of $455 a year on food it doesn't eat.

Wow, 40% of our food supply ends up in the garbage? I can believe it when you go to Foodland or somewhere and see like 8 boxes of apple turnovers or something just sitting there. I'm pretty sure that maybe only one or two of those boxes get eaten. I guess the rest of them are dumped or fed to pigs or something.