If we all choked down our expired containers of cottage cheese, could we prevent forest fires?

Stop wasting food to achieve huge energy savings, say scientists

Scientists have identified a painless way to achieve huge energy savings: Stop wasting food.

They say that the United States could immediately save the energy equivalent of about 350 million barrels of oil a year, if they stop wasting food.
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The scientists realized that the waste might represent a largely unrecognized opportunity to conserve energy and help control global warming.