the join me every thursday on the alex summon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport. business. i'm show business. i'll see you then me me. i actually don't want any be able to handle one. yeah. of course. oh, we're, we're not doing anything illegal. so there is, there would be a law against it, but there is no law against taking food from the trash in the stores are not giving the food away. the reason that there are stores just for people to make money. there's no announcement that's made 20 minutes before the store closes . attention customers. the food you're now looking at will very soon in 20 minutes

. be on the curb outside. don't bother buying it. do, and you can get it for free. so the reason that stores are uncomfortable are the management of stores to people who work there might be uncomfortable about seeing people salvaging good food that they throw out is because it might be a threat to their business who's who are rescuing the food that they were not scavenging or were rescuing resources that are still good. i teach english as a 2nd language. it had been a few different colleges in town. woodward, in college, urban, hatton college and patient diversity. i can afford to shop. it's not like i'm starving . but the environmental issue is a big thing. i have a 12 year old son and i'm kind of feel about the world we're leaving him. and i know that me taking the odd thing here. there is not going to change anything,

but if a lot more people did it, there be a lot less stuff going into the waste stream. and i'm getting some eating the food that i get, a recycling the packaging. and composting what i don't eat. so i feel like if, you know, it's a little bit, but it's just, you know, be, had 7000000 people all the a little bit, it would make a math difference. food waste is a dagger in problem that i think many people don't conceive the scale almost a 5th of the farmland in the united states and 4 trillion gallons of water grow food that just doesn't get eaten because it can't turn a profit, profit seeking capitalists have decided it's not sellable, therefore it won't be edible. almost 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions are attributable to food waste. it's simply not sustainable. and at the center of the ethos of the freedom movement is to live more sustainable lives beyond the

trappings of liberal capitalism. and it's, it's imperative the, the scale that this issue is that we do something about it, ah, there's a waste in every step of the food system from the farm where the food is pick the perfectionist standards that we have. where if you go to an american supermarket, a key we is always about the same size as a chicken egg, like perfect. and that's true of the size of a mango, the size of a papaya, the size of an apple, the size of the size of an apple, the size of a potato, which we all know. there's huge variation in these things. and so on the farm from

right, then everything gets wasted. and then the next step is when they package it and ship it, and some of it gets wasted in the packaging. and then at the supermarket, if it's produced, it gets a little bruised. if it has a little dent being it gets wasted. the whole idea of perfection seems like a nice idea. i mean that's what advertising is all about. to have the perfect house has the perfect vacation, have the perfect vehicle, have perfect couch. perfect furniture, have everything perfect. but what we pay for the perfection is a really quick destruction of our planet. and that's not perfect. all of these potatoes, holla, pianos, onions, all of these came from waste balance. horses. the i speak openly about my friend

with my family and friends. i don't hide it from anybody. i'm not ashamed of it. it strikes some people as as odd. they put some folks off, particularly. i'm thinking of my sister when i told her that, you know, i do food rescue. she's like, oh, what's that? it's like, well food is going to be thrown away. so dumpster diving. i'm like, well yeah, that's one way to do it. you know, so you're in a dumpster like, yeah, there's food in there. so i don't know. i mean there's some steps in there. oh yeah, there might be something yeah. i like that good like greens and whatnot. i imagine that you can make a serial, you know, one or 2 things. yeah. hey, just talking openly about it when we start being guarded when we're ashamed of it. that reified as other people's impression that it is a shameful thing to do if you try to hide it like, oh yeah, well, you know,

sometimes we're like in the dumpster, but those just says, no, we get food from the dumpster because good food is there. then prompt them, ask why, why is good food in the dumpster? well, all tell you because of these wasteful system that we live in, and it's an opportunity we'd have a conversation if you're just bolden up front about it. stores in our country are abundantly stocked and they don't want to ever have to run out of any product so that people have this comfortable sense of having everything they could ever dream of. and this is the byproduct of that. we're also wasting all of this good food. this is not yet expired, but they got a new shipment in. this is best buy march 21st, which is in 2 days. so they probably got a whole lot more of this product. and so they got rid of the older one,

and there's one type of food that they've last for years after they move buyers. that can food and the theme in the cabinet here mostly can that. yeah. so if we have another bar in teams, i'm good. i don't know why it gets thrown out. i tried, mangled yesterday. ah, i opened i can find an expression and by that he said, this is last forever by september, september 20th 2021. so i don't know why this, even there are other 5 of my job isn't e s l teacher. i don't, i have all my future immigrants, so i get the unique opportunity to kind of be like this and bastard american culture. so i will introduce them to things that maybe they wouldn't get from another teacher. and yeah, some people are kind of grossed out by it or whatever, but other people i find it to and i've had students that like, oh, how do you do this work? you do, you know where,

where can i go and i go walk or any neighborhood? if you see a dumpster look inside, you never know what's going to be in there. in new york city, the garbage is put out differently than in most of the rest of the country, because especially in manhattan, there's no back parking lots. normally, there is no where they keep a dumpster. normally, the supermarkets and bakeries and stores all put their garbage on bags on the curb at night. ah, ah ah, ah, ah, i think there are free guns who are finding lots more food than they themselves

want. and it's just an instinct or propensity to not let the food get wasted, that you're going to take it just so it doesn't sit there in the trash. and then in 20 or 30 minutes, a truck comes by and it just gets shipped off and thrown out to a landfill. ah, darlene offered me some of the food that she put in her fridge and this was the picture she sent me. oh my god, what you'd like. yeah. and it's absolutely more. yeah. because of the bound people today, there's more blueberries. i didn't know if you want to green purple grape both wash, beautiful apples jain nor miss green apple. and can just construct beautiful.

remember last night when we were on our walk home and i found that container structure. exactly. so i was thinking that's why i didn't mention i need those 2 because i felt greedy. now i have enough, but i'll take because you know there been smoothie beautiful and i have a case blueberries. if you would like more rainy berries. i do encourage people to do it because just there is far more food and other things than i could possibly consume. wow, baby. yeah. and i don't usually take fresh stuff more than i need unless i know that my friend jared like will it's i want to see or i might get a little extra but i don't want i don't want to take up home. that doesn't go bad because i can leave so much. i'm really grateful that i found this freaking group because it's nice to have these good people in my life like darlene and rich. you know, people who think the way i think people are attracted to us because we think

differently than most of society that we're not always thinking about. i have to get that thing that i just saw advertise because the newest and the best really quite the opposite that we're thinking. i don't have to get something just because it's newer and better that they're more important things than having the best of everything and, and kind of having the best friendships and relationships and integrity and knowing good people. that's really important me. i got this place last may. i'm in the middle, the pandemic. everything was close. i had no interest in going to stores on top of that. i have gonna buy anything. i was gonna buy cheap junk. i spent what i could on the place, but i managed to 1st place beautifully just with things i got from for free. this

on the side of the street. the other side of the street. it's thing weighs a 1000 pounds, a nice piece of furniture. i don't know who to put in it, but it's got nice shelves and doors and everything in here is stuff i've picked up there around the from their various places we ever wore or anything, plenty of bandages and medical supplies, blood pressure monitor. this is, this is, this is like my, this is my, on my pharmacy to read. i can't he, things like tooth paste. i got in the for years and here i had finally for magnesium or cohen how and health pill probiotics i've got them are i given the people they need them? it's just it's, it's amazing. like i pick up a lot of random things and i try to give them away for stuff i don't use and do pretty good. pretty good job of getting rid of stuff and but you know, i know my, one of my goals is not to have too much, but i want to tell you that kind of was sad and funny. the things that i found to pacify 1000 staples, i realized i will never buy staples again. as long as i live,

i have to stable to rest my life. there are, there are a lot of resources on, on the web to find things on facebook. there. bunch of different pages called by that are combined nothing groups and they're very local. people have babies out here and they, babies grew up and they get rid of their stuff. they need to buy it again. there's a baby carrier for everything, but the baby winter hat some people post. i think i wanna get rid of this other go for hey, do you have this? and it talks people up differently. yeah. it's actually this person's looking for breath from this person who has one. so now they're going to meet, you know, say here's somebody either by stolen from c as my, as a star by somebody's got some spare chicken. and somebody else wants it. somebody is stopped by a few minutes ago and she got some lip balm and face mask and things like that that i picked up. and now now it's somebody's using it. it wasn't just thrown away. join me every posted on the alex, silent show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport,

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i? this is fun. someone to someone dropped off the love yesterday. so welcome to our free store. we launched this right now. we're just over our one week anniversary. this used to be just this stuff right here. this plywood just this graffiti and it was full of trash all of that sting away plastic that's blowing all over the city. the 2nd here, cigarette, but bottles, people were loitering, it was an eyesore. it was attracting all 1st about stuff and we decided that's kind of a good use to the community. and i found a bunch of stuff in the trash like this beautiful black sign that was ready to go in the garbage. the so everything came from the trash from our street right here in

hell's kitchen. this is given, take over everything, not just all of these items, but given, take a skills resources. there's a lot of turnover in this neighborhood. when people buy all of their fancy things to furnish their apartments and then they leave town. so often it literally goes in the trash. someone took our shelf that was right over here. real estate, but we'll get more to this is what i'm talking about. this is amazing, that's exactly the type of stuff we need. so i love this, i've been enjoying looking at the pictures on the group and looking at the 2000 in the turnover. been like phenomenal people are seeing someone saw like there's this, he ruler and they're like, oh i wonder if that's still there because you can see it. sometimes we post photos in our by nothing group that. yeah. okay. all right, we're off until i'm a great day and it's, you know, pilot for the community and for our elected officials and for our building owners

to see when the community comes together. yeah. it's going to say neat is gonna say piety. let us in your space is worth braces. there is such an abundance of stuff that for getting rid of there is a tremendous need. we don't need to buy anything more. we don't need to buy new. it all exist, whatever we need, and there can be so much more sharon, we just need the spaces to do it. what did you get to choose? oh my god. well, it's great to see you have a nice day with we're on the way to a 3 cycle event. first hills queens. so i was here with all my giveaway random things that i've accumulated over the last, whatever years and months and days. so this is a new event,

as far as i know that they're running a lot. so people can bring things to give away and people can come and take things for free. and this is great for me because i'm always looking for a way to give things away. this was in the trash of a store because christmas was over. so i can perfectly good item that became garbage tax laws, you know, definitely do benefit the wealthier people in our society. so that makes sense for them to throw it out right off rather than give it to somebody who could use it. because then that person is not going to buy it, of the core of the philosophy is reducing waste, whatever would otherwise become waste, stopping it from becoming waste. and instead using it in a way that transcends traditional capitalist markets. there is no exchange of money

. so we're just looking to use things that other people no longer have any use for or have decided not to have a use for i'm just showing mark a gift that i'm bringing. i found it st recently like this week and how that's a nice fine. that's awesome. yeah. yeah. so yeah. besides the missing strings that has like this might need. oh yeah, it's good thing on the back. i forgot the not nothing. yeah. so they're not needs a repair or placement. yeah. it's not even an issue that we should only be thinking of as happening in the global south or over in somewhere in the 3rd world. this is an issue right here in our backyard. when people think of issues of food and equities and hunger, they always think of something maybe they might see on tv asking to make a donation to the children in africa or what have you. but people are starving

right here in the united states in our own backyard, in our community. there are people hungry and dying on the streets right here. this isn't a problem over there. this is a problem with which we as americans are intimately linked because it's happening around us in our own community and our resources to do something about it. here in our community. any local rocher is throwing away tens upon tens upon tens of pounds of food. perhaps even hundreds of pounds of food every week and you could just go take that, then you could use it to feed people in your community. we have the tools to build solutions to these problems at the local level and a comparative that we do. well, not everybody has to dumpster dive to get free food. and it's nice that i think, especially during the pandemic, there's been a lot of concern about all of the people who have lost their jobs and haven't been

able to make rent, and haven't been able to keep up with the economy. but let it, let us grab it for him and let us grab it for you. let us grab it for you. this is aaron mckenna bakery. we pick up from here every sunday and they give us a bunch of a really good treat. usually it's what they have left from the day before, i believe sometimes they throw in some fresh extra stuff for us. people in the park just absolutely go wild over these. everything vague and gluten free. not free, i think as well. so pretty much anyone can eat them unless they're trying to cut down on sugar more or less at the end of the day, we don't throw anything. we like to donate stuff. we give it out to the neighborhood, our friends around here or not. i know the area more or less so i know where there's people that are like homeless. i'll go on next to them and i'll give them stuff the. you don't waste that all here and we try to make the best of everything

we do here. wasting food is terrible in general, but i think especially in new york, just there are so many people you know, in such close proximity that need it. i think other bakeries throwing away food instead of donating it is kind of just a couple of dogs myself where they are like instead of donating and they'd rather just throw it away because it was maybe losing money, but you lose money anyway, throwing it away and so i think it be better if you just gave it to someone in rabbit funds that are right there. let me get you. my name is sam agnew. i'm a volunteer with the lower manhattan food, not bombs. and we are in tompkins square park right now, which is where we serve food every sunday at 4 30 pm. it's food that was otherwise going to be thrown away from a grocery store that we pick it up from. and we take the food of food. we cook it every sunday and we serve in the park for free people who are hungry as

a way to mitigate food waste and feed hungry people and just build a sense of solidarity and resiliency in our community. the we just have, you know, just sort of, you know, big and groceries. cato pepper, tomatoes and brew banana plants. and some of these bags have read and now we got roll a cinnamon raisin bread. i just saw. this is all donated to buy groceries. stuff. they're not going to sell, but it never makes it to the trash. and then we just didn't want anybody you want that. me. i never, ever, ever needed food because it's cold and my dog i became really scared. so we started going to the pantry. it's just due to the what i want to participate and it was they're giving out and anything i don't use, i think around the neighborhood to other people and i'm retired and there's no work

. so it's very scary time. and people here are very afraid, everybody in the city is very afraid because it's empty now and nobody knows what they're, they're planning and i wasn't my 1st thing. i would say the majority of people who come here are people who come to the park regularly. they live in the area of a big chunk of them are on fixed income or are on disability or on unemployment or food stamps, and don't really have a huge budget for their groceries. there are a lot of other places who provide deals for people in the area. one of them, you know, is government based. another one is the church nearby, but the majority are, you need to prove your financial need. you need to somehow prove that you need the

help when it comes to food, not bombs, will serve absolutely anyone. you know, whether they're doing well or not. because it's about, you know, to waste. it's about, you know, these, any, any amount of food that we serve them is a meal that they are not paying a grocery store for. or, you know, consuming and feeding into the market in creating more ways in the community fridge that we come to after. we finish serving whenever we have leftovers we. we just put all of our, all of our leftovers in this refrigerator. if free food, anyone can come and get anyone to come in for food and there's a pretty high turnover rate for this one. i check it every few days and you know, if you look at, if you come here like you in the morning and see what's in there, you come there the next day, all of it will be gone. so this, this refrigerator feeds a lot of people in the neighborhood, and we always just put whatever we have left over in the fridge afterwards.

basically during the pandemic, i think last summer in particular, there was like a big move to set up, free fridge is all over the city. so it a lot of neighborhoods in new york city, there are these refrigerators that anyone can go to and get food. so yeah, really cool aspect of mutual aid in practice. and just to piggyback on that, that is a very, very nice thing that people do that they put food in the refrigerator because there are a lot of homeless people around here. and they, i guess they do appreciate you know, what is being done in this neighborhood. i live right up the block. my name is robert. i bring stuff down also just so that people can have something to this time. got a really, really picky, what's going on. as far as the pandemic is concerned, lot of people don't have money to go shopping to elderly parents or

whatever the case may be. but you know, this is really, really a wonderful thing that people do bring. i mean, it's like, i got them. i mean, you can't, you can't put in any other way. i wonder if i have another bagel bag for such purposes. yeah, i have a i have a clean bag for you here. i've read in the news recently. i didn't read the details of it. have a kind of busy at work, but that france has, has recently made it illegal for sources. throw away food. so they have to distribute the food that they still edible. they read like were here, things get near that expiration date. they throw it out like a great thing would be if i were looking at, i'm certain there was nothing there. that would be, that would be awesome. that's. that's not going to happen. i'm not trying to get everyone to learn to dumpster dive. i'm trying to change the way that we're managing the economy and dealing with the food. there should not be all this ways.

there should not be the ability to dumpster dive the the the, the, the the ah,

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