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perfectly edible thrown away food is about. every year in america we throw away ninety six billion pounds of the. true hundred sixty three million pounds a day. eleven million pounds an hour. three thousand pounds a second. hand . her.

to. soothe mom. playing. the bombs nearly a billion people in the world are going on three 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 need. let's you find it if your rule number two the first one is so the temps are as first did. it you always got a share and rule number three leave it cleaner than you looked and you. found it before you leave it cleaner and you found this out 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 spent down. there's. no antibiotics ever no added hormones ever free range could mean 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 bags

of of a condo's one goes bad through the entire bag of all the clothes out apples oranges everything is tossed in it for no good reason are all good these are all good aches but not and she is 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 to say them seconds and stuff but i only take stuff that's double back. what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. and getting meat for my own consumption. and for my baby showers more for 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. we're not making

a public announcement everyone's like exactly what they did i'm just like we wouldn't tell him that we went to montserrat also get there but i would say most of our friends are aware of the fact that you get all of the dumpster 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 grace and then there's the washrooms. 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 our stuff clean every day and i know there's like i don't have a reason and then i never wash trays and i've actually i'm it's not that big of a deal but it's just. a lot more work than just the new version certain picking up exactly you not think you need fifteen or twenty i could just like this occasionally wake up in the morning and kind of trend to clean up the problems dumpster hives where it's going to kill me she's going to wake up in the morning on the street it's going to be. rotting in my village. but finally have a strawberry 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 alfonzo a professional chef would cook up gore made dishes from food we had just scrounge out of dumpsters little hello to try to piss 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 her polish 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 methane 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 on. salmon stuff with feta cheese and spinach rescued from your local dumpster. a beautiful blood orange futures are blank. to the cake. is made from and one doesn't dumpster egg whites in the shop days hire one hand your present. hamster. 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 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 they locked it so the food can then rot inside the dumpster instead of people getting it that's that's smart. i don't know i don't even want to take all this good looks 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 like it's like almost two in the morning and i don't have anywhere to put it

really 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 handbook for a freezer they just didn't but that's what i did ok. i'm going to give it. a serious. 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 the freezer is

totally filled up there's just a little layer of some bread and stuff. just not because they didn't find enough meat just because they're 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 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 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 at rosslyn i love it on and on and. in the right so none of the stores. he's going to give me the card for the place already called which refutes so basically it's impossible to talk to anybody on camera i mean even off camera they wouldn't discuss details of the phone. because you have to 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 we're here. some story that

has a lot gave and 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 then they don't they don't want me to get into it so if i'm wrong. 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 backslid i'm going. i'm gone. i don't understand how anyone could get upset for you stealing trucks. a week there's the bad. so we got lucky was evil but the cure you're still going the way you know this is something not. spent discarding just wants to be forgotten about you you take it take that out. i don't see how that can be just be criminal in any way but to see you not because you just look 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 of the plans. you get. it's kind of. like get back to your i can't i'm on a fast. i believe that does or die mean a 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 the law but i believe that's just i believe a do if i get caught arrested i shall be proud to say i got arrested for eating somebody who's 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 what i'm doing the same way from myself. and most of the time they're very frightened. this is probably. making no noise to hurry to. get. paid. technically trespassing and it is against the law. guys right now. 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 outside the system way of living.

the more stores i visited in phone calls i made 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 in its nearly unrestricted quantity and variety reveals a lot about us as a society i gave him a call but that's what will you come to a commercial level there isn't even a train in the. lot it's not even a caucus which you know about with people and i'm not there i don't suppose they brought the whole thing but i think they're just so different that he. would you.

do sort of what life. took life to create that. law but it's getting more prestigious bought it by automobile from you know fifty percent of all the. hard will never made it to the public if you write half that through all of the perception that went into it it's like right so all the transporter where the fertilizers increase. for the farm mean everything else that if we were to cut our food waffle and half we would probably be the total overall creation but. after my conversation with timothy jones 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 one in every ten people are at risk of hunger los angeles county 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 travel 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 were not reaching so that's that's how big the problem is here even if we bank 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 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 and hires a floozy 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 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 eighteen million pounds of food saving just one percent of valets food waste will equal nearly thirty million pounds of food that's almost triple what the food bank is short every year. weighs 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 but 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 the haircut

and the 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 we're picking on trader joe's because they happened to be the best store to dumpster dive so. we know we pulled a lot of food out of their dumpsters and particular a 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 a hundred 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 wheels come from. but. in the us are

actually. saying they're just. so. so fed. up to move ninety six million. 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 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 meat actually represents seven counts 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. when if all this food were then unloaded and fed to pigs swill 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 food waste into grateful pigs mouths would raise one hundred twenty million a glimpse into 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 whang sixty pounds so one acre equals

twenty four hundred pounds of wheat putting our annual food waste into acres of wheat with 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 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 that stubble 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 some brains. 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 a dire needs of neighbors around the globe. let

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