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policing leads many wondering if thoughts are nations practice the democracy they preach. coming up next groceries in the ground and how the back alleys of l.a. are the supermarket aisles for those saving thousands of perfectly edible thrown away food. 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. her. to. soothe mom. comes nearly a billion people in the world for knowing 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 meet. unless you find it if your rule number two first ones to the temperature as first did. if you always gotta share and rule number three leave it cleaner than you'll find you've. found it before you leave it cleaner and you found that it's all 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. no antibiotics ever no added hormones ever free range good me all of these perfectly good eggs because one was cracked in even get all over the other

ones just thrown all the way is what they're doing with everything they have batch of avocados one goes bad they threw in the entire bag of all because out apples oranges everything just tossed in it for no good reason they're all good these are all good apes look about and choose from the german alps. much better out of the dumps and i ever have for her thirty two years ago and we have clearly only the upper class makes me crazy. now i'm taking some stuff but i only take stuff it's noble buying. what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. and getting meat for my own consumption i hope for my baby shower tomorrow from 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 cat. and i'm making a public announcement to everyone talking exactly what they did 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 you get all the feeling and i'm sure they think it's pretty cool. living off the ways. of the consumer isn't the american. league.

so we got. a lot of. them 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 can turn into a lot of work so i. figure out the best stuff clean i mean i know there's like. a reason and i never wash trays and bag and it's not that big of a deal it's just that a lot more work and just when you first start picking up exactly you know you need fifteen or twenty. kids it's like this kitchen you wake up in the morning can a trend clean up that follows some strides away it's going to kill me she's going to wake up in the morning on the streets. rotting in my chest.

but fennel have the strawberries 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 seeing 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 gourmet dishes from food we had just scrounge out of dumpsters look at hello to try to assign it. i've read this in this yeah i don't think this about the fish is good it's simple the chicken was looking a little funky a little like purplish 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 packed 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 that run show on. salmon stuff with. farit she's a spinach rescue from your local dumpster. and a beautiful blue orange interest group look. to the cake. is made from and one dozen times tr egg whites and strawberries are one hundred percent. hamster. and delicious. 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 the 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 more lock dumpsters which seem to be a growing trend to keep dumpster divers out and ensure total waste. this is the trader joe's we put out many many many times and i locked it so the food can rot inside the dumpster start of people getting it that's that's smart. i don't know ira i don't even want to take all this food on the side. i'm tired of

it there's. there's too much we all they took this much because we didn't want to waste but i like 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 looked and books for a freezer they just didn't but that's what i did ok. i knew i would need a good. yeah. yeah place here yes. a few anyway we got in the garage for free for free donated. and just over a week of nightly diving we had

a year's supply of neat. stuff so the freezer is totally filled up there's just. a little layer of some bread and stuff. just not because i didn't find enough meat just because i'm just tired of me you get kind of picky thank you don't want a lot of the same thing. so ours are 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 them because i went to their website and their website says that they prefer to talk face to face i was wrong on our on and on and. in out of the right so none of the stores out 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 or come. 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 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 my if they don't open it but they don't they don't want me to get into it so i just wanted to. put the gate because 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 next i'm going. i'm going. i don't understand how i don't want to get upset for you stealing trying to. wait there's the bad one so we got like it was a little bit of stuff because you're here stirring the waste you know this is something that. has been discarded and just wants to be forgotten about you know

you take it check 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 then you just let it like rot i mean mines have been shipped up from mexico like cheese from germany and meat from. chile and i mean you just let it rot because there's a man's. pretty good. 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 brake. i believe it's just i believe to do it if i get caught and arrested i should be proud to say arrested for eating somebody is 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 and when when when they catch me or people come i shake their hand and tell them one and two minutes away from them i still want to do it and most the time they're very firm. they give them a stick. it is technically trespassing and it is against. your guys right now. and that is where the conflict comes as a conflict between what i believe is just and what it's legal and this lifestyle i believe it's more of just. going into the store and buying stuff with money but rather this is. totally different outside the system

way of living. the more stores i visited in phone calls i made the more silencing 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 them a call but actually come to a commercial although there is little even in the train. plot it's not even a cop. show about the law and i'm not. saying that

the whole. would you. do it for the life because to quiet the critics a lot but it's good it's more prestigious auditee automobile but you know fifty percent of all the people who gets up at howard will never make it. if you half back through all of the production that went into it that way right so all it took to transport. the fertilizers to increase total deprivation for performing at everything else that if we were to cut our losses at half we would probably be told told all patients that fight back.

after my conversation with timothy jones and i went to the l.a. food and 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. who created 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 one in every ten people are at risk of hunger los altos 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 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's still you know over a third of those people that we're not reaching so that's that's how big the

problem is here even if we take our size hundred thousand square foot facility distributing thirty four thirty five million pounds a year still not reaching the demand here in our county it's a big problem here in america where you do have all that kind of food and resources 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 here and we're still not making food available to everybody here america which is. the sad state of affairs is that.

these vast empires of food the 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 food 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 or 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 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 ok contractor 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 asuka 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 their next meal is coming from. but about people in the us are actually. saying they're just. so. so fed. up to. six billion.

numbers in the millions and billions are hard to imagine and can feel meaningless without a way to picture that 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 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 should be eating grass in the first place consume seven pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat 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 pigs this 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 pounds lighter 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 and the 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 per day for an entire week. or maybe a better way to picture how much food 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. 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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