part of the world we want to be their laws including both permanent military base there why because of the oil because of the natural gas people say afghanistan let me get a sense well look just so the north of afghanistan ok put a minister has more has has natural gas into an instant worse than we're going all the toilet in iraq he only probably can't get it here from there so we try to build a pipeline through afghanistan and pakistan will save you so thank you for one food there interesting perspective as always we do appreciate you writing and giving us that unique insight from a cia analyst governor wilkerson and that is going to do it for now but for more on the stories we covered go to archie dot com slash usa and or you tube dot com slash r t america can also follow me on twitter at franzi i'm christine for that.

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here's my letter to dan bain the c.e.o. of trader joe's have also included a copy of the good samaritan act which was signed into being in one thousand nine hundred six by bill clinton and that encourages grocery stores to donate food and it protects them from being sued so i'm just asking him to consider moving trader joe's into the next step of simply not wasting as much food and getting it to people who need it i figured the c.e.o. of trader joe's probably wouldn't get back to me after one letter so i've decided to send him. a letter a day for the next month a letter went out to t.j. c.e.o. dan bain every morning and we continued diving as normal time passed dumpsters swelled with food and then suddenly the landscape changed we began seeing more people at the dumpsters and not your typical diverse people that seem to need the

food a lot more than we did. as i waited to hear back from trader joes about all the food in their trash cans the world spiraled into a food crisis a kid kurdish leaders. meet again and again the key to. try. to be. comfortable to come. to. pan good he. came to meet shoot to. injure shane.

and to meet. to a sandwich board for someone. to. come. to. the us from. after sending letters for two weeks i got a call from the trader joe's headquarters allison from public relations asked me to stop sending letters and to please stop bothering me they would not be discussing wasted food or anything else with me when i insisted on a simple conversation as

a concerned citizen no cameras or interview allison hung up on me she said and i quote just so you know in our communities in which we have stores we do donate food that we feel is safe to donate seven days a week in all our stores across the country so i guess the problem is they don't feel that all this food is safe to eat of the thirty stores i called ninety five percent throw away everything except for bread so the dairy the produce the meat i guess they they don't feel it's safe to consume even though they throw it away the day before it expires i guess he's bananas aren't edible why they've thrown away trader joe's shouldn't be singled out it's just one company among many routes vons safeway whole foods cosco sam's club and many others throw away staggering amounts of food every day but stores are only part of the problem of food waste all

of us throughout perfectly good food on a daily basis we let it rot in our refrigerators we toss leftovers because they don't sound good or were afraid because we don't know enough about food to judge whether or not it's edible wasting food is a bad habit that permeates all of society implicating all of us in the problem which means we're all responsible for creating a solution. that's the problem not a lot for your forty percent of health overall well household or for about. to hear what we saw was among younger people and you pay for this point black and white. they don't know what a bad there's. this this half is bad i think are here.

these eggs bring up a good point about. a little bit about food safety here. i have never been sick eating dumpster food my family has never been sick and i have to be really careful i'm feeding a small child trash essentially. so you start learning more about food we don't know exactly when these eggs were thrown out and you can't you can't really smell an egg to know if it's good or bad so i researched it and what you do is you take the egg and you get a bowl of cold water and you drop it in and if it sinks to the bottom and lays flat it's perfectly good and if it angles up it's a little bit better for baking and if it floats it's terrible so these eggs are enjoy by november nineteenth today is october twenty first so i'm not sure why they threw these away but will test and make sure they're good really slim pickens there's so much food but it's all buried underneath this

mountain of trash is all crushed so basically i have. breakfast for the family cakes and toast for about a week. people kept telling me about the issue of logistics how there's enough food available but the difficulty of storing it and transporting it to needy people make wasting food more practical you know i believe you have. a loving dad no doubt there are real complexities but my son for then solve the problem quite easily pick up the food and then take it to hungry people. but this requires people caring and volunteering the public will and political will to end hunger is is not great enough if people cared enough to make this a huge priority in our policy work then we could we could end hunger in the u.s. i mean almost not overnight but i mean pretty rapidly and.

here's what i want to know i mean. what kind of society wastes this much food. the part of the body that will break this amount of one that garbage value. and the products but. if you know our own personal character but if you could make a profit. to revalue the earth. we value all that it produces. have we lost our connection to creation. do we see its beauty. its fragility. do we care for it. for all that comes from it. do we nurture it. appreciate it.

has it become just another product for us to consume. just finished something take a leak soup made from greens from the dumpster. right answer. eggs from the dumpster. but. i don't know if dumpster diving eating food from the dumpster has made me value food more or value food less because it's easier now to throw a few away because we have so much of it and so part of me i think that i'm

following the food as. you can probably only. live around. one i know i don't waste my time with food i don't always either. but now. you can all. come here for my. that's what i'm talking about. eat it for lunch. laugh now you eat. don't waste it you got to eat it. you. so today is new year's eve and i'm working on

a little plan i got the idea on christmas eve when i went dumpster diving so tomorrow is christmas the twenty fifth they've thrown this away two days early because the store is closed tomorrow there's hundreds of dollars of me here tons of bread tons of salad why wouldn't they at least attempt to give this food to the food banks the stores are all closed tomorrow too so tonight they'll be twice as much food again the plan was really ingenious my son scout actually thought. i would try. going through the front door instead of scavenging through dumpsters i just talked to the trader joe's on arroyo one of the ones we dumpster dive that and they said i could come by tonight at six pm when the store closes and pick up all the food so maybe that's better than jumping in there times ten or so that one

trader joe's gave us six grocery carts full of food and if i would've called them today i would have been in the dumpster tonight we were taking the food to the salvation army's bell shelter southeast of downtown l.a. the bell shelter down there. where we are. the shelter is a halfway house offering long term treatment for substance abuse and mental illnesses they provide room board and treatment to four hundred fifty people. who searched for nation army. yeah. ok thank you we should have had ten truckloads of food but many of the trader joes i'd call didn't want to take the time and the whole food store back out of the last minute. sandra the lead cook told me that getting enough food is a constant struggle especially as the country's economic crisis deepens i enter my tent i'm the only good for the salvation army bell so just kids here we supply

a breakfast lunch in here for. forty fifty people a day if we wouldn't pick up his fish tonight at trader joe's it would have dire concert it is better for you to get it again i see get it thank you i can tell you you have your if you're wrong thank you very much ok i think. we all felt pretty good the night has been successful go on a very small scale approaching individual stores had worked much better than going to corporate headquarters but saving perishable food requires organization and work and it's difficult convincing stores to give more than bread intented cans. most of the time wasting food is just easier. path.

and that one of the trader joe's that told me that i couldn't pick up food because they were giving it to someone else and i and i looked in this one dumpster and just pulled out this bag. check. those are all fifteen dollars royal are. all expired tomorrow i see a lot more food down below but there's tons of nasty sticky garbage but there's a lot of food not dumpster so we could have taken to the bell shelter tonight too we weren't always like this there was a time when we viewed food as something precious much more than a commodity food was life itself the center of community culture and home to throw it away would have been unimaginable our grandparents and great grandparents lived the virtues of waste not want not and demonstrated the proper etiquette necessary to join the ranks of the clean plate club in that era saving food was presented as

part of the war effort and to do otherwise would be unpatriotic using food wisely and being aware of waste became second nature to a generation that had firsthand experience with world war economic downturn and food scarcity. in both world war one and world war two the emerging might of american industrial and manufacturing power was bent toward the war effort and consequently to feeding the troops in a world where meghan for driving america has become the bread winner of the garden of democracy. our farmland and ranges must produce more food than ever before to supply our own needs and health are fighting a life. so . greatly food producing country in the world backing him up the american soldier no matter where it may be in the jungle. the arctic. the desert.

or in his home care can rightly consider himself the best soldier in the world and in the future the war born knowledge that has made it plain bread over the world can guarantee that no one to beat up on from malnutrition all from. ironically the advances in reducing food waste and increasing production through new food science efficient packaging and distribution laid the foundation for modern agribusiness and ultimately a broken food system that wastes one half of all that it produces. has often been linked to war and its accompanying in a tree the polian going to parts famous quote an army marches on its stomach found its world war one iteration with is ammunition don't waste it part of

a massive campaign to educate citizens to conserve food for the war and to raise awareness that individual consumption had an effect on a global scale. much of the war propaganda of the day urged people to buy local fresh and seasonal food to plant edible victory gardens to eat less meat and more veggies to raise chickens for eating food scraps and providing eggs to can preserve and dry excess food for the coming months and not only were people urged to clean their plates there was less on them to begin with largely due to the war rationing portion sizes were much smaller and people were urged to eat a very diet of whole healthy foods rather than consume oversized portions with little or no nutritional value. although our tastes and habits have changed many of the ideals and braced by our great grandparents generation haven't the language of the past may be couched in war terminology but the parallels between that time

and ours abound we're experiencing a new resurgence of the same type of consciousness that existed then the main difference being that now it's happening on a grassroots level the rise of edible gardens in urban environments and increased emphasis on sustainable living a growing trend of keeping backyard chickens and a widespread shift towards buying organic seasonal and local products all directly reflect the fundamental principle that food is precious food is not ammunition food is life and it should never be wasted and if saving good food is a value that resonates deeply in our national character. shouldn't the establishment that provide us with food reflect that value and shouldn't we be practicing it in our homes and communities as well.

and wastefulness now seems to be a defining factor among the wealthy nations of the world with very few exceptions in the u.k. over eighteen billion pounds of food is thrown out of my households every year. and the european union wastes nearly two hundred billion pounds of food annually. but we don't have to waste food this is one simple thing that we can change the impact of which will reverberate throughout the entire planet. we're on our way to

a food bank called god provides i discovered them when i was trying to block the new year's eve. truckload of food to the bell shelter and these guys apparently pick up food from a lot of trader joe's stores and a lot about the grocery store so they're doing exactly what needs to happen food that would go to the dumpsters they're getting it's the people who need it god provides hands out over eleven million pounds of food every year they serve four thousand families up from six hundred just a few years ago primarily we got our food from the fresh rescue program with trader joe's vons trader joe's was the first really big chains to really jump ship from being afraid to give the for the way they could mr bill clinton passed the good samaritan act when it's really close to the expiration dates we're going to freeze it which tylox the expiration dates we freeze out the yogurt and dairy and food if you guys didn't pick up that food and you didn't have it set up that food would

most likely go into the don't yes and if we're not on time for a few hours later it's in the dumpster most families give them so much food by cases the produce that we tell them that people can give you so much food you have to go next to your neighbor that you know talk to and give them some food god provides open me up to the good some grocery stores are doing for trader joe's stores contribute every day as well as many albertson's which i learned as a leader in food waste reduction with its nationwide fresh rescue program a simple program that could easily be imitated by all our grocery companies we also experienced firsthand how hard the work is without volunteers none of this food would be rescued in redistributed to people who really can't live without. out it we have to help each other that's what we're here for to help everybody and if anybody can detect that attitude you know i think we'd be much better.

sometimes i wish we could take back all of this waste that trash cans and dumpsters and landfills would give up their food to those who really need it. that we could erase all the damage of our bad habits but i know that's impossible we can't go backwards the problem won't conveniently solve itself either. we have to move forward creatively start living differently so that everyone has a chance to live fully it's about more than not wasting food it's about making sure everyone has enough to eat clearing our plates is a good place to start but it's not going to put food in hungry mouths or stop massive waste in grocery stores or throughout the food industry. noam chomsky said

changes in progress very rarely are gifts from above they come out of struggle from below the answer to what's next depends on people like you. it's a must stop world but it's the only one we've got and we have to wake up and start carving out a new way of being maybe we can begin to help create a world for our children and their children and their children a world where all of creation and all of life is sacred and beautiful and valued for what it is.

almost securely as ever since she started this documentary the dumpster diving has been terrible thanks paul. so our. eye out.

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