WastedFood

Lots of people adore Trader Joe's, but it's not always perfect in its corporate citizenship. One failing in particular has the activists at Change.org and documentary filmmaker Jeremy Seifert picking fight with the funky grocer: They're accusing the chain of wasting tons of food.

If you're feeling guilty for being a glutton over Thanksgiving, here's something else to chew on: We waste a lot of food. A new study published in the journal PLoS One has found that we Americans are wasting fifty percent more food than we did in 1974. Approximately 1,400 calories worth of food...