margaret why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy because really toward the north. american watching r t live from moscow here is a look at the top stories of the week as well as the latest news stories leave new leaders try to bring calm to tripoli after capturing the capital but the massive flood of weapons onto the streets means stability could still be a long way off. moscow slams it is new is sanctions on syria aim to put pressure on president bush on a lawsuit over he's down on protesters by doubts over the accuracy of media coverage coming out of the country are raising questions about who's to blame for the bloodshed. ukraine threatens to take russia to court in its push for

a discount on gas prices but the kremlin claims it's on solid ground and a looming battle saying here have some planes have no legal ground. and hundreds of thousands rally across israel in the nation's biggest anti-government protests the demonstrators demand the authorities turn their attention from security to social justice. more news at the top of the hour and now you can watch part two of our special report about this angela's dumpster divers who sell which thousands of dollars of food that's been thrown away that's coming up next on our team. here's my letter to dan de as c.e.o. of trader joe's i 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 continue tithing 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 chance to. meet

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to him or her past. the words from. the man. 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 joanie 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 at 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 is bananas aren't edible are quiet they throw him 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 how. about. moving here what we saw was among younger people say they. point lack of understanding. they don't know what a food that's gone bad there's a fear that 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 eggs 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 know having. a loving dad no doubt there are real complexities but my son fen solve the problem quite easily pick up the food 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 us i mean 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 body that way about a one that got the price you pay her and the products but again if you know our own personal character but it could be the profit. do we value the earth. do we value all that it produces. have we lost our connection and 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 some potato leek soup made from a greedy in the dumpster was. right and some. 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 feet 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. my home i know i don't always be the ones who i was either. but

now. you can all. live on here her black eyed let's not talk about. it for lunch. we'll laugh now you eat lunch. don't waste it you gotta eat it. can. 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 stores closed tomorrow there's. hundreds of dollars of me here hundreds

of bread tons of sour why wouldn't they at least attempt to give this food to the food banks the stores are all closed tomorrow too so tonight will 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 at 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 terror for 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 serve 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 mention martin i'm the only bit for bit selfish on bell south just kids here we supply a preface like she did it for. forty fifty people a day if we wouldn't pick up a bit tonight a tree or throws it would have dried their concert it is better for you to get it again i see get it. right. here if you're wrong thank you

very much ok i think you're right we all felt pretty good the night had 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 and dented 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. those are all fifteen dollars croyle 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 that 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 and 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 first hand 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 men jumping starving america has become the bread basket in front of the guard some of them are for three. our farmland in ranges must produce more food than ever before to supply our own needs and are fighting a life. very . 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. for his home care can rightly consider himself the best soldier in the world and in the future a war born knowledge that has made him stop playing red over the world can

guarantee that no one under suffer from malnutrition all from. ironically the advances in reducing food waste and increasing production through new food science efficient packaging and just tribute laid the foundation for modern agribusiness and ultimately a broken food system that wastes one half of all that it produces. food has often been linked to war and its accompanying imagery. poleon bonaparte's 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 a 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 aids to can preserve and dry excess food for the coming months and not only were people urged to clean their plates that 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 grace fair great grandparents generation have and 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 should never be wasted and if saving good food is a value that resonates deeply international character shouldn't the establishment that provide us with food reflect that value and should we be practicing it in our homes and communities as well. 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 destro now in 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 are on our way to a three legged dog 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 of other grocery stores so they're doing exactly what needs to happen food

that would go to the dumpsters 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 get our food from a fresh rescue program with trader joe's albertson's fons trader joe's was the first really big chains to really jump ship from being afraid to give the for the way they can it's difficult clinton pass the good samaritan after all when it's really close to the expiration dates we have to freeze it which time locks 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 that set up that food would most likely go into the yes and if we're not on time with for a few hours later it's in the dumpster most families we give them so much food by cases the produce that we tell them that we hope to give you so much food you have to go next to your neighbor that you don't 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 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. at it we have to help each other that's what we're here for to help everybody and if everybody 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 stock 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 struggles 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 a journey as ever since she started this documentary the dumpster diving just been terrible thanks paul.

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