Resources

Here are some of the resources we find helpful and we hope you do as well! If you have any that you think we should add please contact us and we will take it under review.

Hunger in Massachusetts

• In 2010, 660,000 people in Massachusetts struggled to put food on the table — nearly a 20% increase over the previous year.

• 20 percent of households with children in Massachusetts reported that they lacked enough money to consistently buy food in the past twelve months.

• For more information, see Project Bread

Hunger in the United States

• Feeding America: Hunger & Poverty Statistics

• “David Chang on Hunger”

Food Waste

• According to American Wasteland, Americans waste more than 40% of the food we produce.

• $1 Billion is spent annually by U.S. taxpayers to incinerate discarded food, resulting in almost 7% of total U.S. oil consumption.

To Learn More About Food Waste

• Wasted Food blog

• Society of St. Andrew

• “In a world of abundance, food waste is a crime”

• “Food waste in America: a growing concern”

• “One Country’s Table Scraps, Another Country’s Meal”

• “Wasted food has massive impact on collective carbon footprint”
  

Other Food Rescue Organizations

• New York City: City Harvest

• Philadelphia:  Philabundance

• San Francisco: Foodrunners

• Washington, DC: DC Central Kitchen