“’Ugly’ and deformed food often gets left in fields to rot. How can we help reduce this food waste?”

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USDA Food Waste FAQs
http://www.usda.gov/oce/foodwaste/faq…
“In the United States, food waste is estimated at between 30-40 percent of the food supply. This estimate, based on estimates from USDA’s Economic Research Service of 31 percent food loss at the retail and consumer levels, corresponded to approximately 133 billion pounds and $161 billion worth of food in 2010. This amount of waste has far-reaching impacts on food security, resource conservation and climate change.”

How ‘Ugly’ Fruits and Vegetables Can Help Solve World Hunger
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/mag…
“Across cultures, food waste goes against the moral grain. After all, nearly 800 million people worldwide suffer from hunger. But according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, we squander enough food-globally, 2.9 trillion pounds a year-to feed every one of them more than twice over.”

This Food Trend Isn’t Pretty – And That’s the Point
https://mic.com/articles/145598/this-…
“Food Activist Jordan Figueiredo started the Ugly Fruit and Veg Instagram account a year and half ago to show how absurd it is that these quirky, imperfect foods are being thrown out. Figueiredo’s campaign now has 130,000 followers across various social media channels, and they’re growing every month.”

Video published on Aug 4, 2016

Great supplement to Lesson 1 to teach students about world population growth