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with hungry getting its funding slashed or something is given to spain and the region's pharma say the other words forcing them to send us a red tape. next to the stock of the grocery covered by digging deep in the rubbish bins. every year in america we throw away ninety six billion pounds and lose. two hundred sixty three million pounds a day. eleven million pounds an hour. three thousand pounds a second. the be

. the end. of. the beyond. players. who mom. played. the bombs nearly a billion people in the world are going hungry 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. 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 look and 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 l.a. so i think it's you know forty three to forty five degrees which is good because it keeps all the meats and stuff cold is but. there's. no and i buy attics ever no added hormones ever free range good meat all of

these perfectly good eggs because one was cracked in even get all over the other ones just through all the way is what they're doing with everything they have bags of avocados one goes bad they threw in the entire bag of all because out apples oranges everything is tossed in it for no good reason they're all good these are all good eights look not and cheese from the german alps. much better with ups than i ever have for her we started two years ago and we have we really like the upper class makes me crazy. and i'm taking some soft brown we take stuff that's double back. what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. and getting needs for my own consumption. and for my baby showers more in the dumpster at one am this morning. at three pm this afternoon on the grill.

i think i'm going to have a pretty healthy. and i'm making a public announcement everyone's like the doctor with a big problem just like me wouldn't tell him that we went to montserrat also get their food but i'd say most of our friends are aware of the fact that you get all the feeling and i'm sure they think it's pretty cool. living off the ways. of the consumer is the american. league.

i love. so we got. a lot of variation. in the wash arms. and then we're going to have blueberry pancakes the dumpster stuff is really great. because there's such a large quantity of it can turn into a lot of work so. far out of our stuff clean every day and. there's like. a reason and now you're washing raising cattle and it's about being a deal it is just. a lot of more work than just going to push certain picking up exactly nothing you need fifteen or twenty five kids it's like this occasion you wake up in the morning in control and clean up the palace dumpster dive where it's

going to kill me she's going to wake up in the morning all this food security. rotting in my kitchen. but finally have all this trouble years even though we still had to buy groceries we really began living off food cold 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 alfonzo a professional chef would cook up gore made dishes from food we had just scrounge out of dumpsters look at hello that he tried to pursue out of. 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 and 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 crunchy on. sand and stuff with feta cheese in spinach rescued from your local dumpster. and a beautiful little orange features or a blank. sheet a cake. is made from and one dozen times tr egg whites has japanese hire one hundred percent. hamsters. delicious. and i'm strictly law i.

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 a 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 joes rip it out many many many times and they locked it so the food can then rot inside the dumpster set of people getting it it's that smart. i don't hire i don't even want to take all those good moments like. 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 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 a handbook for freezer just didn't but that's what i thought. i knew i wouldn't need. a serious. 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. so the freezer is 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 think you don't want a lot of the same thing so i was a really nice for meats and. 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 to people who need it. i decided to ask the grocery stores. ok so here we are at trader joe's saturday afternoon i'm going to go in and talk to him because i went to their website and their website says that they prefer to talk face to face i was. on and on and on and right so none of the stores none of the oh 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 so. we could go from. and. 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 through that house 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 but they don't they don't want me to get into it so if i'm wrong. but the gate is busy i can respect them because what if they like this one because there's back stock and they don't want people getting into the new xbox and i'm going. i'm going. i don't understand how anyone could get upset for you stealing trucks. a week there's the bad one that's really bad like it was a little bit of you're still going to waste you know this is something that. has

been discarded and just wants to be forgotten about you but you take it take that out. i don't see how that can be conceived as being criminal in any way but to see you not you not because you just let it rot i mean mines that have been shipped up from mexico and my cheese from germany and meat from my chilean i mean you just let it ride because of the plans. or 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 that's just i believe

a do it if i get caught arrested i should be proud to say i got arrested for eating somebodies waste i think it's just i think it's just and i'm willing to pay the consequences for that i do it openly when when they catch me or other people i shake their hand and tell them what i'm going in a same way from i see what i do and most of the time they're very from. you know when they do. it is technically trespassing and it is against. your guys right now. that is where the conflict comes it is a conflict between what i believe is just and what is legal and this lifestyle you believe it is it's more of 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 actually come to a commercial or there's it would be trite but. a lot it's not even

a cough it's not. about we can pull off and i'm not. saying that brought the whole side they're just not careful but what would you. do for the life . aquatic to be able to create that. we've lost but it's good it's more procedures . like that but you know fifty percent of all the food gets up a credit card will never make it but if you have back through all of the perception that went into it just like right oh all except transporting. the fertilizers to increase total degradation of the farm mean everything else that if we were to cut our food waffle and half we would probably be a total overall creation so i thought that.

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 homeless 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 about one in every ten people are at risk of hunger los angeles games roughly just over a million people once angeles county at some time during the year are at risk of hunger not knowing where their next meal is going to come from so the 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 were not reaching so that's that's how big a problem is here even if we take our size and 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 the kind of food and resource available that you still have people going through the cracks and that should happen as a country we export billions of pounds of food to other countries to the top of what we keep ear and we're still not making food available to everybody here in america which is. the sad state of affairs is that.

these vast enquires of food be 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 eleven million pounds of food every year it's 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 food waste that means we throw away two billion eight hundred eighteen 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. in ways 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 time i did actually 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 happen to be the best store to dumpster dive so. we know we've pulled a lot of food out of their dumpsters and particular i still 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 and 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 silly first let's say thirty five and a half million people in the u.s. don't know where the net meals coming from. but about people and us are actually going hungry and saying they're just not going to eat today so they can't confirm.

the fed. to write he six million. now. numbers in the millions and billions are hard to imagine and can feel meaningless without a way to picture them so what does ninety six billion pounds of food look like it's impossible to accurately measure ninety six billion pounds of food waste because of the endless variables in size in which 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 interact 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 and 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 and five months redirecting our annual from the waste and the grateful pigs mouths would raise one hundred twenty million immigrants and the massive hogs producing enough meat 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 lang's sixty pounds so one acre equals twenty four hundred pounds of wheat putting our annual food waste into acres of wheat 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 per day for an entire week. maybe a better way to picture how much food we waste for me 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. is 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.

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