It appears that just as the price of food has risen and more people around the globe are struggling to find food to eat, or just simply afford to buy it, we are wasting an estimated 27 percent of the food available for consumption according to a government study. Americans waste an astounding amount of food and it happens at the supermarket, in restaurants and cafeterias and in your very own kitchen. It works out to about a pound of food every day for every American. In England, a recent study revealed that Britons toss away a third of the food they purchase, including more than four million whole apples, 1.2 million sausages and 2.8 million tomatoes. In Sweden, families with small children threw out about a quarter of the food they bought, a recent study there found. The full story is here. You can also read the Wasted Food blog for more info.