VIDEO: John Oliver: We Waste a Third of Our Food While American Families Go Hungry
The "Last Week Tonight" host lists the moral, environmental and, yes, even financial reasons why, as a country, the U.S. needs to stop wasting so much food.The “Last Week Tonight” host lists the moral, environmental and, yes, even financial reasons why, as a country, the U.S. needs to stop wasting so much food.
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