Consumers in North America and Europe waste about 209 to 253 pounds of food per person each and every year. If, as the USDA says, the average person in the U.S. eats 4.7 pounds of food per day that means the amount of food we each waste in the U.S. per year would feed us for the better part of two months. In this video from MAD, Isabel Soares, co-founder of the cooperative Fruta Feia, talks about fighting food waste.