Millions of Americans are living in fear that they will go hungry due to potential delays in SNAP food assistance benefit payments, even after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to make payments in November. That's in a nation where close to $400 billion in food is estimated to be at risk of going to waste every year.

ReFED, a U.S.-based nonprofit that focuses on food waste, recently released its 2025 report showing that $382 billion in surplus food was produced in 2023, the most recent year statistics were available.

"Forty percent of all food is headed for the bin globally," said Chris MacAulay, head of surplus food marketplace Too Good to Go's North American operation, which has expanded to 70 cities. "Visualize what that means — it would be like standing in front

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