Study Finds Farm-Level Food Waste is Much Worse Than We Thought
Last year, Cannon Michael left over 100 acres of ripe cantaloupes unharvested. The sixth generation grower could not justify paying workers to pick them all because the cost of labor, packing, and, shipping would have been more than the price he could get for the fruit. And so, he left about 30 percent of his perfectly edible cantaloupes to decompose and get churned back into the ground.
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