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Food Waste from Field to Table FOOD WASTE FROM FIELD TO TABLE HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION MAY 25, 2016 Serial No. 114–52 ( Printed for the use of the Committee on Agriculture agriculture.house.gov U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 20–309 PDF WASHINGTON : 2016 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 VerDate 0ct 09 2002 15:04 Aug 03, 2016 Jkt 041481 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 P:\DOCS\114-52\20309.TXT BRIAN COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE K. MICHAEL CONAWAY, Texas, Chairman RANDY NEUGEBAUER, Texas, COLLIN C. PETERSON, Minnesota, Ranking Vice Chairman Minority Member BOB GOODLATTE, Virginia DAVID SCOTT, Georgia FRANK D. LUCAS, Oklahoma JIM COSTA, California STEVE KING, Iowa TIMOTHY J. WALZ, Minnesota MIKE ROGERS, Alabama MARCIA L. FUDGE, Ohio GLENN THOMPSON, Pennsylvania JAMES P. MCGOVERN, Massachusetts BOB GIBBS, Ohio SUZAN K. DELBENE, Washington AUSTIN SCOTT, Georgia FILEMON VELA, Texas ERIC A. ‘‘RICK’’ CRAWFORD, Arkansas MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM, New Mexico SCOTT DESJARLAIS, Tennessee ANN M. KUSTER, New Hampshire CHRISTOPHER P. GIBSON, New York RICHARD M. NOLAN, Minnesota VICKY HARTZLER, Missouri CHERI BUSTOS, Illinois DAN BENISHEK, Michigan SEAN PATRICK MALONEY, New York JEFF DENHAM, California ANN KIRKPATRICK, Arizona DOUG LAMALFA, California PETE AGUILAR, California RODNEY DAVIS, Illinois STACEY E. PLASKETT, Virgin Islands TED S. YOHO, Florida ALMA S. ADAMS, North Carolina JACKIE WALORSKI, Indiana GWEN GRAHAM, Florida RICK W. ALLEN, Georgia BRAD ASHFORD, Nebraska MIKE BOST, Illinois DAVID ROUZER, North Carolina RALPH LEE ABRAHAM, Louisiana JOHN R. MOOLENAAR, Michigan DAN NEWHOUSE, Washington TRENT KELLY, Mississippi SCOTT C. GRAVES, Staff Director ROBERT L. LAREW, Minority Staff Director (II) VerDate 0ct 09 2002 15:04 Aug 03, 2016 Jkt 041481 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0486 Sfmt 0486 P:\DOCS\114-52\20309.TXT BRIAN C O N T E N T S Page Conaway, Hon. K. Michael, a Representative in Congress from Texas, opening statement .............................................................................................................. 1 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 3 Peterson, Hon. Collin C., a Representative in Congress from Minnesota, open- ing statement ........................................................................................................ 6 WITNESSES Pingree, Hon. Chellie, a Representative in Congress from Maine ...................... 7 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 9 Gunders, Dana, Senior Scientist, Food and Agriculture Program, Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, CA ................................................. 10 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 12 Fink, Jesse M., Managing Director, MissionPoint Partners LLC, Norwalk, CT; on behalf of ReFED: Rethink Food Waste Through Economics and Data ....................................................................................................................... 17 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 19 Oxford, John, President and Chief Executive Officer, L&M Companies; Chair- man-elect, Produce Marketing Association, Raleigh, NC ................................. 33 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 35 Stasz, Meghan B., Senior Director, Sustainability, Grocery Manufacturers Association, Washington, D.C.; on behalf of Food Waste Reduction Alliance . 41 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 43 Aviv, Diana, Chief Executive Officer, Feeding America, Chicago, IL ................. 48 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 50 Broad Leib, J.D., Emily M., Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Food Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School, Jamaica Plain, MA .......... 54 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 56 Submitted question .......................................................................................... 156 SUBMITTED MATERIAL Budway, Robert, President, Can Manufacturers Institute, submitted letter ..... 153 Vroom, Jay, President and Chief Executive Officer, CropLife America, sub- mitted statement .................................................................................................. 154 (III) VerDate 0ct 09 2002 15:04 Aug 03, 2016 Jkt 041481 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 P:\DOCS\114-52\20309.TXT BRIAN VerDate 0ct 09 2002 15:04 Aug 03, 2016 Jkt 041481 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 P:\DOCS\114-52\20309.TXT BRIAN FOOD WASTE FROM FIELD TO TABLE WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2016 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, Washington, D.C. The Committee met, pursuant to call, at 10:00 a.m., in Room 1300 of the Longworth House Office Building, Hon. K. Michael Conaway [Chairman of the Committee] presiding. Members present: Representatives Conaway, Crawford, Gibson, Yoho, Rouzer, Abraham, Moolenaar, Kelly, Peterson, David Scott of Georgia, Walz, Fudge, McGovern, DelBene, Vela, Lujan Grisham, Kuster, Kirkpatrick, Plaskett, Adams, Graham, and Ashford. Staff present: Haley Graves, Jadi Chapman, John Goldberg, Mary Nowak, Scott C. Graves, Faisal Siddiqui, John Konya, Anne Simmons, Lisa Shelton, Mary Knigge, Matthew MacKenzie, Nicole Scott, and Carly Reedholm. OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. K. MICHAEL CONAWAY, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM TEXAS The CHAIRMAN. This hearing of the Committee on Agriculture entitled, Food Waste from Field to Table, will come to order. I would ask David Scott to open us with a prayer. David. Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia. Dear Heavenly Father, we come be- fore your throne of grace to first of all give thanks. We thank you for so many blessings you bestow upon us; blessings sometimes we do not even know. We thank you for your Holy Spirit that inter- cedes for us on our behalf. We thank you, dear Heavenly Father, for this hearing, for what could be more important than the food that we get on the table for needy people. And in this case, dear Heavenly Father, as we discuss the issue of food waste, we hope that you will implant within this Committee our resolve to do as much as we can to eliminate the food waste, to help our farmers be able to have the labor to get food out of the fields and into the hands and at the tables of those people who need it most. Dear Heavenly Father, we ask this in your name, and in the name of your son, Jesus Christ. Amen. The CHAIRMAN. Amen. Thank you, David. Well, good morning. Since I became Chairman of the House Agri- culture at the beginning of last year, we have held more than 70 hearings and have invited a broad range of experts, including peo- ple in the field, to share their knowledge of everything from the fu- tures markets to the farmers’ markets. The Committee doesn’t agree all the time on every issue, but one of the reasons we are able to work in a bipartisan manner is that (1) VerDate 0ct 09 2002 15:04 Aug 03, 2016 Jkt 041481 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6633 P:\DOCS\114-52\20309.TXT BRIAN 2 we remember well-meaning people can have different ideas about how to achieve the same goal, whatever the issue may be. Because we have a different way of getting there doesn’t mean one of us is wrong, and this is something we lose sight of in America today. Good public policy is not a zero-sum game. If advocates, Members, whoever it may be, are close-minded and unopened to compromise, it all but ensures retention of the status quo regardless of the issue. An example of where we are engaging a variety of stakeholders is in this review of food waste. I commend my colleague from Maine, Chellie Pingree, for putting this on the Congressional radar. Today’s hearing may be the first time the House Agriculture Com- mittee is publicly engaging on this issue, but it will not be our last. Forty percent of the food grown in the country is wasted. That amounts to 133 billion pounds of food wasted. That is billion with a B. Considering we have about 45 million people receiving assist- ance through SNAP, I believe this is a tremendous opportunity for us to take a closer look at our food chain, and figure out a way to ensure that food grown in this country reaches the dinner table and not the trashcan. Speaking 2 weeks ago at a food waste summit, Secretary Vilsack commented that avoiding food waste loss could save U.S. families on average $1,500 a year, and limiting food waste globally could help prevent hunger and malnourishment in the 825 to 850 million people worldwide who are not getting adequate food. Tackling food waste in this country is, and should be a non- partisan issue that will be most successful by engaging everyone in the food chain, from the field to the table. It will take the collabora- tion of all stakeholders to be successful. As we begin this review, we will undoubtedly identify issues that seem easy to resolve, yet are more complex than they appear. We will likewise identify other issues that have already been ad- dressed,
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