While in college working for peanuts in the cafeteria dish room, I heard two opposite and striking attitudes toward food waste.One student complained about the food service’s admonition to “take one and come back for more.” The idea, of course, was that eyes are bigger than stomachs and that students who right away grab two portions may end up wasting one. This student’s attitude was, “I’ll take as much as I want, when I want, and if I waste the food, so what? I’m paying for it.”On a different day, an international student from Africa expressed shock at the volume





















