Sustaining Food: Cutting the Carbon Footprint of Food Production, Transportation, and Disposal

In this episode of the Population Healthy Podcast, University of Michigan experts discuss how methods of food production and transportation, as well as everyday food waste, affect climate change. The food system accounts for the entire process of producing, transporting, storing, and using food. With this system becoming wasteful and dangerous from climate change, it is time to use new technologies and think of different ways of preventing food waste like composting.

Discussion Questions

1. Have you ever composted food? 
2. Do you find that you are unintentionally wasteful with food? 
3. How can you use the strategies and conversations from this episode to cut back on your personal food waste?