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I'm a little late to this party, but most of the conversation here has centered our not cleaning your plate, but that is hardly the crux of the problem. Most of the waste happens through the supply chain, from farmers not bring "ugly" produce to the distributors, to food spoilage during transportation, to prepared foods that don't get purchased at the store.

My friend wrote a great book about this last year:

http://www.americanwastelandbook.com/

Since reading this book and Barbara Kingsolvers "Animal Vegetable Miracle" my family gets our food almost exclusively from the farmers market or directly from a farm via a farmshare.