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Green Dinner Parties: By The Numbers
- 27 percent: Amount of food available for consumption that is wasted by Americans.
- $48 billion: Cost of all the wasted food in the U.S.
- 100 times: Amount more water required to produce a pound of beef than a pound of wheat.
- 7 million tons: Annual fish consumption in the U.S., up 17 percent over the past decade.
- 17 million: Invitations sent per month from electronic invite website Evite.
- $5 billion: Sales of local food in the U.S. in 2007, up from $4 billion in 2002.
- $7 billion: Expected sales of local food in 2011.
Sources: New York Times, Evite, Packaged Facts, Renewable Energy Works, Food and Agriculture Organizations Fisheries and Aquaculture Department.
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