A multi-disciplinary team of UofH researchers recently published an article titled  “Between perceptions and practices: The Religious and Cultural aspects of food wastage in households”. Published in Appetite, the paper explores how cultural and religious views shape food waste practices, and includes interviews with influential individual sub-sects of Israeli society, including secular Jews; religious Jews; and Muslim Arabs unveil the conflict between values and waste. The research seeks to identify factors that lead to household food waste include past scarcity, consumer culture, and hospitality in hopes to demonstrate how dissonance can be reconciled, both on the level of justification and action.