Why Oprah and Katy Perry invested in Apeel, a start-up trying to solve the food-waste crisis in the U.S.

Covid-19 is chang­ing the way we think about food. To start: tak­ing for grant­ed hav­ing food read­i­ly avail­able. With food mar­kets and food plants becom­ing hot spots for coro­n­avirus out­breaks, access to food has become more chal­leng­ing and food inse­cu­ri­ty has surged as an issue for many Amer­i­cans. These new chal­lenges make the issue of food waste, already a grow­ing prob­lem on a glob­al scale, a more press­ing pri­or­i­ty for the agri­cul­ture and food sectors.

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