Questions and i am sorry we couldnt go on but we have as much time as possible and thank you both very much. Thank you. Madam secretary, we proudly give 72 of our delegate votes to the next president of the United States our road to the white house coverage continues on thursday from california. At 4 00 p. M. Eastern well take you live to ventura nor a Campaign Rally with bernie sanders. And then at 4 30 Hillary Clinton holds a rally in san jose. That is live on cspan. By some estimates, 40 of all food produced in the u. S. Is thrown away. Next, the House Agricultural Committee looks at the issue of food waste and how to redirect it to those who need it. This is about two hours. Good morning. This hearing on the committee of agriculture and food waste from the field to the table will come to order. Ive asked david scott to open us with a prayer. David. Dear heavenly father, we come before your thrown of grace to first of all give thanks. We thank you for so Many Blessings you bestow up
Meghan stas, senior director and Grocery Manufacturers Association here in washington, d. C. And diana aviv, kre feeding america in chicago, illinois and emily leib, the director of food law policy clinic, harvard law school, jamaica plains, massachusetts. Ill let everybody get to their seats. All right. Miss gunders, if you will begin when you are ready, maam. Ranking member peterson and members of the committee thank you for inviting me to testify today and be willing to explore this issue. Any name is dana gunders, im a Senior Science at the National Resources Defense Council and the author of a widely cited report on food waste and a book called the wastefree kitchen handbook which is a guide to not wasting food. Imagine walking out of the Grocery Stores with five bags in the parking lot and dropping two and not bothering to pick them up. It seems crazy but that is what were doing when we are wasting 40 of our food. Were leaving entire fields unharvesting and eliminating produce fo
Not to have to file, or pay federal income tax. But one of the things ive not really heard anybody address, we talked about in here the need for the minimum wage to be raised. And when there was an article written recently that indicated for an individual who just accepts the available federal welfare payments, they may be looking at 1,700 a month take home whereas under the current minimum wage its about 1,200 takehome. Well, the incentive there is obviously not to work. But i know my friends at heritage have encouraged as a solution lowering the minimum wage. Obviously, that would even increase the disparity between what you take home if you dont work and what you take home if you do work. If you lowered the minimum wage. So thats obviously not going to fix the problem there. But if the minimum wage is raised in puerto rico, since as my friend from californias indicated they have a higher minimum wage, then people would be tempted to go from puerto rico to california to get those hig
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