From upended supply chains to more home cooking, the way we eat has changed—and so is the way we’re wasting.
, USDA data shows that Americans spent over $50 billion more at restaurants than they did at markets in in 2018 . But the amount spent out of the home is set to plummet this year, and shifting“Since we’re buying more at the grocery store, it means [food items] have to be in that form,” Pat Westhoff, director of the University of Missouri’s Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, told the site.
Things get even tougher for producers of more perishable the goods who have a shorter window to rework things. “Farmers planned for their sales outlets months ago when they planted,” Ben Feldman, who works for the Farmers Market Coalition, . “If their markets are forced to close and they can't pivot to other sales outlets, that produce will rot in the field.”
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