Americans discard 31% of our food supply

Americans discard 31% of our food supply:

Fresh food is filling landfills.
Food statistics can have a way of zeroing in on our collective eating Zeitgeist with uncomfortable data points. For example, U.S. consumers waste up to 50 percent more food than Americans did in the 1970s, according to National Institutes of Health.

Something seems particularly insane about all of this..