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If all the food that Americans waste were measured, it would amount to the equivalent of 350 million barrels of oil a year. That's about 70 times the amount of oil in the BP Gulf oil spill. Jonathan Bloom the author of a new book called "American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of its Food, and What We Can Do About It," talks about Americans' wasteful habits and what we can do to change them.

Found in:   food   The Takeaway   politics & society   sustainability   John Hockenberry   Celeste Headlee
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