Supermarkets buy inventory to sell to consumers, but some of those products never end up in their hands, and instead become food waste. The USDA forecasts that grocers lose a whopping $15 billion each year in unsold fruits and vegetables. And one report notes that “without accounting...
On average, each human being consumes 75 pounds of meat per year. But, like most averages, that number can be somewhat deceiving. Americans and Australians, the world’s biggest meat consumers, eat closer to 220 pounds of meat per year, or about 50 chickens or an...
March 04, 2020
Consumers’ appetites for plant-based food is apparently surging, as the market for those products hit a new high of $5 billion last year. That stems from year-over-year sales growth of 11.4 percent, according to the Plant-Based Foods Association (PBFA). The sales of plant-based foods climbed around five times faster than overall retail food sales in […]
