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international crime and called the revised human naturally. next fall special report. dr seuss. of dollars of food has been thrown away. every year in america we throw away ninety six billion pounds of food. two hundred sixty three million pounds a day. eleven million pounds an hour. three thousand pounds a second. hand

. to. soothe mom. claims. the bombs nearly a billion people in the world are knowing country every day. in the united states even our trash cans are filled with food you just have to go get it.

so there are three basic rules to dumpster dive rule number one never take more than you meet. unless you find it if your rule number two first ones to the dumpster as first did. that you always gotta share and rule number three leave it cleaner than you'll think you. found it before you leave it cleaner and you found some right. it's an unusual night in l.a. because it's it's freezing outside freezing for zero eight so i think it's you know forty three to forty five degrees which is good because it keeps all the meat and stuff cold is but. there's. no antibiotics ever no added hormones ever free range good me all of these

perfectly good eggs because one was cracked didn't even get all over the other ones just thrown all the way is what they're doing with everything they have bags of of a coddles one goes bad it through an entire bag of avocados out apples oranges everything is tossed in it for no good reason they're all good these are all good apes look about and choose from the german alps. i much better with the ups than i ever have for her we started two years ago and we have we really like the upper class makes me crazy. now i'm sick and stuff but i only take stuff that's doubleback. what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. and getting meat for my own consumption at home for my baby shower tomorrow in the dumpster at one am this morning. at three pm this afternoon on the grill.

and. i think i'm going to have a pretty healthy cat. and i'm making a public announcement everyone's like stocked with food i'm just like we wouldn't tell him that we went to montserrat see get there but i'd say most of our friends are aware of the fact that we get all of it i'm sure and i think it's pretty cool. living off the ways. of the consumer isn't the american. league.

so we've got. a lot of variation. so i wash arms. and then we're going to have thank you x. the dumpster stuff is really great. because there's such a large quantity of it it can turn into a lot of work so. far out of that stuff clean every day and. there's like an hour of reason and i never watch grey's and. i miss not having to deal with it it's just that a lot of more work just going universe started picking up exactly nothing you need fifteen or twenty markets it's like this occasionally you wake up in the morning and kind of trend to clean up their powers and some survives where it's going to kill me she's going to wake up in the morning all this group is going to be.

rotting in my village. but phil have a lot of strawberries and even though we still had to buy groceries we really began living off food pulled from the trash. eating food out of dumpsters is repulsive to most people but there's a certain beauty seen garbage transformed into a meal with friends and better meals than we could ever afford to buy especially when our friend alphonse or a professional chef would cook up gore made dishes from food we had just scrounge out of dumpsters look at hello to try to personify. a pretty decent this yeah i'll think about the fish it's good to pull the chicken was looking a little funky a little like purplish at food makes up about twenty percent of the landfill waste which means we're feeding our landfills as much as we're feeding our country so instead of rotting underground acts beneath the earth and producing harmful nothing

gas this garbage was feeding my family and friends and doing it in style. well this will be blood orange and onion salad. with a crunch show on. sand and stuff with feta cheese in spinach rescued from your local dumpster. and a beautiful blue orange citrus or blank. today cake. is made from and one dozen times tr egg whites in astronomy is higher than one hundred percent. hamster. delicious. i'm strictly law i. am. the found myself wondering through trader joe's hoping for certain items to be

waiting for me in the dumpster that night i got excited when i saw a bad tomato in a pack of four for me that had turned the slightest shade of brown anything dated for the next day would most likely be in the dumpster even though the sell by best buy dates don't mean the food is bad they're just overly cautious states for absolute freshness and protection from possible lawsuits i dreaded morelock dumpsters which seem to be a growing trend to keep dumpster divers out and ensure total waste. this is the trader joe's we've been out many many many times and i locked it so the food can then rot inside the dumpster sort of people getting it that's that's smart. i don't know ira i don't even want to take on this group homicide. i'm tired of it there's. there's too much we only took as much because we didn't want to waste but

i did it's like almost two in the morning and i don't have anywhere to put it or even though i would be breaking rule number one i decided to buy a freezer for all the excess food we rarely saw other divers around town so i knew that most of the discarded food was ending up in landfills i had to save as much of it as i could so many. like i mentioned and book for a freezer i just didn't like but that's what i do ok. i mean i didn't need your good. graces here yes oh thank you anyway we got in the garage for free for free donated. in just over a week of nightly diving we had

a year's supply of meat. still in the freezers totally filled up it's just. a little layer of some bread and stuff. just not because i didn't find enough meat just because. or just tired of me you get kind of picky like you don't want a lot of the same thing so ours are really nice for you meet. rescuing food from the dumpster was great for the few of us doing it but it felt too self-serving to leave it at that the question nagged me why is all this food being thrown out and not given the people who need it. i decided to ask the grocery

stores. ok so here we are a trader joe's saturday afternoon i'm going to go in and talk to them because i went to their website and their website says that they prefer to talk face to face i was i'm on a lot of on and on and on in the right so none of the stores none of my coffee he's going to give me the card for the place already called which refused so basically it's impossible to talk to anybody on camera i mean even off camera they wouldn't discuss details of the phone on the beach. and. go they won't talk to me company policy no interviews no. no interview call this guy i got the card. but the number for the main office but she said she'll see a pallet and on that pallet are four trash cans and those trash cans are all filled

with meat and all of that gets thrown away were here. comes true that has a lot gave another rule that i've been told is never penetrate into something that is not yours it's not mine if they don't open it and they don't they don't want me to get into it so it's on for long. but the gate is this i can respect that because what if they like this one because there's back stock and they don't want people getting into the news back so i'm going. i'm going oh. i don't understand how you want to get upset are you stealing trucks. a week there's the dad. that's really dad like it was a little bit of she if you're still going to waste you know this is something not to. spend discarded and just wants to be forgotten about you when you take a check that out. i don't see how that can be conceived just being criminal in any

way but to see you not you not because then you just let it like rot i mean minds have been shipped up from mexico like cheese from germany and meat from. chile i mean you just let it rot because there's a man's. word you get it. it's kind of. like get back to your i can't i'm on a fast. i believe that that dumpster diving to civil disobedience is nonviolent civil disobedience because i believe in what i do it i believe it's right and i'm willing to break the law and i don't believe i don't i take it seriously to break. i believe it's just i believe to do it if i get caught and arrested i should be proud to say i got arrested for it you need somebody is waste

i think it's just i think it's just i'm unwilling to pay the consequences for that i do it openly when when when they catch me or people come i shake their hand and tell them one and two minutes away from them i so want to do and most of the time they're very front. of them is doing great. but. it is technically trespassing and it is against. your guys right now. and that is where the conflict comes it is a conflict between what i believe is just and what it's legal and this lifestyle i believe it's more just. going into the store and buying stuff with money but rather this is. totally different and outside the system

way of living. the more stores i visited in phone calls i made the more silence and resistance i received meanwhile i was attempting to educate myself and kept running into a name in almost every article i read timothy jones dr jones was former head of the garbage project at the university of arizona and probably one of the world's most knowledgeable people on waste and his sixteen years with the project dr jones found that what we throw out and it's nearly unrestricted quantity and variety reveals a lot about us as a society i gave him a call but next why would you come to the commercial level there isn't even any training in. law it's not even a cop it's not. about we can offer and i'm not putting him down i'm simply saying

but the whole society there are just so different that he. would you. do your life . like to create that here we've lost but it's good it's more prestigious a body like that. you know fifty percent of all the food gets up and ready to power will never make it and it's probably nothing if you waste half way through all of the production that went into it it's like right so all of it took to transport. the fertilizers to increase total decoration from the farming that everything else that if we were to cut our food last week and half we would probably be the total play charades.

after my conversation with timothy jones and i went to the l.a. food bank the second largest of its kind in the country since nearly all donated food from grocery stores goes through the food bank i hope to get a better understanding of the situation. located in the heart of downtown l.a. near one of the largest concentrations of on this people in the world the infamous skid row i couldn't help thinking about all this wasted food in relationship to hungry people in my own city los angeles county we have a population of ten million people one in every ten people are at risk of hunger los angeles case roughly just over a million people los angeles county at some time during the year are at risk of hunger not knowing where their next meal's going to come from so los angeles regional food bank through a network of about nine hundred charitable agency sites we reach about six hundred seventy four thousand of those people so there are still you know over a third of those people that we're not reaching so that's that's how big a problem is here even

a food bank of our size i mean thousand square foot facility distributing thirty four thirty five million pounds a year still not reaching the demand here in l.a. county it's a big problem here in america where you do have all that kind of food and resource available that you still have people coming through the cracks and that should happen in this country we export billions of pounds of food to other countries to on top of what we keep a year and we're still not making food available to everybody here in america which is. the sad state of affairs is that.

these vast empires of suzi part of the solution. many of them already work almost every major grocery stores on the l.a. food banks list of donors the question is could they do more and from the amount of food thrown into dumpsters every night the answer is yes. darryn told me that the l.a. food bank is short of eleven million pounds of food every year if the entire country throws out ninety six billion pounds of food every year what about just los angeles

county i'm going to use this whipped cream i got out of the dumpster the other night to do the math to see how much food l.a. county throws away every year every year in l.a. county we throw away twenty four billion pounds of trash. according to the e.p.a. twelve percent of that is from waste that means we throw away two billion eight hundred eighty million pounds of food saving just one percent of valets food waste would equal nearly thirty million pounds of food that's almost triple what the food bank is short every year. food waste happens on all levels of production and consumption on farms in transit in the making of highly produced foods in grocery stores in restaurants and in our homes our grocery stores are the obvious choice for redirecting wasted food to hungry people. i decided to go to the trader joe's headquarters since it's only a fifteen minute drive from my house but i was

a bearded mangy dumpster diver and thought i'd better clean up before talking with sophisticated businesspeople about policy changes in their companies a haircut and a shave in the tide did absolutely nothing for me we didn't have a camera rolling or anything we just walked in and i asked to speak with someone and they said we're going to have to ask you to leave because you can't be asking questions about trader joe's i can write a letter to the c.e.o. of trader joe's which i will do for picking on trader joe's because they happened to be the best store to dumpster dive so. we know we've pulled a lot of food out of their dumpsters a particular a soup couldn't believe that there were actually hungry people in the united states the richest country in the world so we stopped by the regional offices of bread for the world an organization working through political means to end global hunger there are hungry people in the u.s. i'd say there are about thirty five and a half million people in the u.s.

who are food insecure that's a that's only fair so let's say thirty five and a half million people in the u.s. don't know where their next meal is coming from. and the us are actually. saying they're just. so fed. up to thank you six million.

numbers in the millions and billions are hard to imagine and feel meaningless without a way to picture that so what does ninety six billion pounds of food look like it's impossible to actually measure ninety six billion pounds of food waste because of the endless variables in size and weight one pound of steak takes up less space than one pound of bread but you have to look at the food behind the food the indirect losses through feed grains used to produce meat a cow which should be eating grass in the first place consume seven pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat so a pound of wasted me actually represents seven pounds of food waste. but if we stick to the lower estimate of ninety six billion pounds what does that amount of food look like on a freight train. the average boxcar can hold up to two hundred eleven thousand

pounds of cargo if you filled each one to capacity you would need four hundred fifty three thousand two hundred fifty seven box cars that's a train long enough to stretch from los angeles to new york city and all the way back. what if all this food were then unloaded in fed to pay exists will like they used to do in the old days with food scraps a three pound piglet needs an average of thirty pounds of food per week to reach its massive two hundred sixty five pound slaughter weight in five months redirecting our annual food waste into grateful pigs mouths would raise one hundred twenty million piglets and the massive hogs producing enough need to give everyone on the planet three pounds of pork. but meat is costly to produce both financially and for the environment and at two hundred twenty two pounds of meat per person per year in the us we have far exceeded what is healthy and sustainable for the planet

. so instead what would ninety six billion pounds of wheat look like on average one acre produces forty bushels of wheat each bushel weighing sixty pounds so one acre equals twenty four hundred pounds of wheat putting our annual food waste into acres of wheat would total forty million acres that's a wheat field nearly the size of the state of oklahoma enough wheat to feed everyone on the planet three one pound loaves of bread her day for an entire week. maybe a better way to picture how much we waste would be to travel just six hundred miles from our southern shores to the tiny country of haiti. with our ninety six billion pounds of food waste the entire country of haiti could be fed for five years or more. here in the poorest country in the western hemisphere twenty five percent of children are chronically malnourished. reduced to eating mud cakes made

from dirt salt vegetable shortening in filthy water to curb their hunger pangs unfortunately we can't simply put our wasted food on a boat and feed haiti. and that's not what haiti needs to become whole again. but the contrast of our excess and their lack exist side by side as with the needy and marginalized in our own wealthy country if nothing more it is an unsettling reality that calls into question our flippancy with food waste. and in spite of the complexities surrounding food production consumption and waste we can no doubt eliminate both food waste and hunger in the united states as a start while looking more seriously at the dire needs of neighbors around the globe.