trash ah, the stores are not giving the food away. the reason that there are stores is 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. you can get it for free . so the reason the stores are uncomfortable or 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. ah, 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 and a few different colleges in town. laguardia, college fair baton 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, i feel bad out the world. we're leaving him. and i know that me taking the odd thing here, or there is not going to change anything. but if a lot more people did it, there be a lot less stuff going into the way stream. and i'm getting some eating the food that i get of recycling 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 that a little bit would make a massive 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 capitalist have decided 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 that 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 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 and it gets a little bruised, if it has a little then surrounding it gets wasted. the whole idea of perfection seems like a nice idea. i mean that's what advertised. it's all about. to have the perfect house, have 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.

ah. all of these potatoes, holla, pianos, onions, all of these came from westbound sources. the i speak openly about my freakiness and with my family and friends. i don't hide it from anybody. i'm not ashamed of it . strike some people as as odd. 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 so well, food is going to be thrown away. so dumpster diving, am i? well yeah, that's one way to do it. like so you're in a dumpster like, yeah, there's food in there. so i don't know. i mean there are some steps in there. yeah, there might be something. yeah. i like that good like greens and whatnot. i imagine that you can make a serial. you know, what are the 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, in the dumpster, but it just says, no, we get food from the dumpster because good food is there then prompt them to 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 to have a conversation if you're just bolden up front about it. stores in our country, our 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 the buyer. and that can food and the theme in this cabinet here. it's mostly can that. yeah. so if we have another foreign team, i'm good, i don't know why it gets thrown out. i tried mangos yesterday. ah, i opened ah, can or find the expression. and then he said the things last forever saw by september, september 20th 2021. so i don't know why this, even in rather 5 months with my job isn't e s l teacher, i sense i have all my future immigrants, so i get the new opportunity to kind of be like them, bastard,

american culture. so i will introduce them to things that maybe they wouldn't get from another teacher and you know, some people are kind of grossed out by it or whatever, but other people i find it. and i've had students that like, oh, how do you do this? you're working, you do you know where to where, you know, where can i go and i go walk around a neighborhood. if you see a dumpster look inside, you never know what's gonna 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 lot. normally there is no place 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 into 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,

this is the bounty for today. there's more blueberries for you. i didn't know if you want to green or purple grape, not the both wash. beautiful apples jain norm is clean 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 smooth, beautiful, and i have a case of blueberries, if you would like more rain berries. i do encourage people to do it because if 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, is i want to see or i might get a little extra, but i don't want, i don't wanna take stuff home. they knows what to go bad. cuz i can only eat so much. i'm really grateful that i found this free good group because 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 advertised because the newest and the best. but 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 i got this place

last may and until the panoramic everything was close. i had no interest in going to stores on top of that. i have run it by anything i was gonna buy cheap junk. i spent what i put on the place. but i managed to furnish 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 eradicate. he things like tooth paste. i got in the for years and here i had finally from magnesium or cohen how and health pill probiotics. i 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 and stuff i don't use and do

pretty good. pretty good job of getting rid of stuff and but you know, i don't, my, one of my goals is not to have too much, but i want to tell you that kind of was sad and funny that he is. am i found 2 packs of 5000 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 bio, they're 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 don't need to buy it again. there's a baby carrier. so everything but the baby winter hat, some people post, i think i want to read this article say hey, do you have this? and it talks people up. this one is actually this person's looking for a breast pump. this person has one. so now they're going to meet, you know, say here's somebody either by stolen since, since 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 had picked up. and i'm out now. now it's somebody's using it. it wasn't just thrown away. oh, i use . ah. michelle. she popped in. she said, well, i'm getting ready to go shopping for christmas. and we, we said there was a good device to another, shooting another safe part of american life. shattered by violence. the gunman was armed with an a r 1570 automatic rifle. when the issue comes home, it's time to act when we're filing on this issue, the other side window by default, lady that lives over there. i was walking one of the dogs. why do you wear again?

were you scared? nothing. i took it off. i think the people need to take responsibility in their own hands and be prepared if those kind of weapons were less available. we wouldn't have a lot of shootings and we certainly wouldn't have the number that i look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except when such orders that conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. the point obviously is to great truck rather than fear take on various jobs with the artificial intelligence we'll summoning the theme in a robot must protect this phone existence with

ah, this is fine. someone, someone drops off and 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 thing. always plastic that's blowing all over the city. the stuck in here, cigarette, but bottles, people were loitering, it was an eyesore, it was attracting all sorts about stuff and we decided let's put it to good use for the community. and i found a bunch of stuff in the trash like this beautiful black fine. that was ready to go

in the garbage. the so everything came from the trash from our street right here in house kitchen. this is given take of everything, not just all of these items, but given take a skills resources, there's a lot of turnover in this neighborhood. so when people buy all 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 bought well, got more. 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 2 men 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. so have

a great day. and this is in a 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 stay neat. it's gonna stay tidy. let us in your spaces. yeah. spaces . there is such an abundance of stuff that people are getting rid of. there is such 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, that'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 giveaways

and 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 it's a 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 on the core of the philosophy is reducing waste, whatever 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 him. i found it st recently like this week and really 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 been thing on the back. i forgot the not nothing. yeah. so they're not needs a repair or placement. 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 backyards. 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 feed children in africa or what have you. but people are starving right here in the united states and 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 10 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 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 we try to make the best of everything we do here. wasting food is terrible in general, but i think especially in your doctor, 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 cool is in 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 use 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. its food that was otherwise

going to be thrown away from a grocery store that we pick it up from. and we take the food, all the 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. we just have, you know, just sort of, you know, big and groceries. cato pepper tomatoes and through banana, plant pain. some of these bags have read and now we got roll a cinnamon raisin bread i. it's all contingent upon what we get on a weekly basis in our donation. sometimes we'll get 10 boxes of food. sometimes we'll just get one or 2 and none of the food was ever in the trash. this is all donated to us by grocer stuff. they're not going to sell, but it never makes it in the trash. and then every month, anybody want that me,

i never, ever, ever needed food. but because of kelvin and my dog, i became really scared. so we started going to the pantry just to see what you want just to participate and see what they're giving out and anything i don't use, i think around the name of 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 you know, 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 pre 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, redirecting food ways. 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 and 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 in to 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 a big move to set up free fridges 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 it's a very, very nice thing that people do that they put food in a 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 off the block. my name is

robert. i bring stuff down also just so that people can have something to this real time. got to really, really eat what's going on as far as the pandemic is concerned, a lot of people don't have money shopping to have, you know, they have believe 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 a god then. 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 read the news recently. i didn't read the details of it kind of kind of busy at work, but the france has, has recently made it illegal for source of throw away food. so they have to distribute the food that they still edible. they read like were here,

things get near the expiration date. they throw it out like a great thing will be if i were you looking at, i'm certain there was nothing there that would be, that would be awesome. that's an i it's doing 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 oh, the it's a topsy turvy, globalized world. as we said, one of the themes for 2021 to be globalization and d. dollarization. so di valorization is not happening right now. people are

flocking to the dollar as all these countries began to get more belligerent in their rhetoric and their saber rattling as we used to say. and they are getting on a war footing. right. and china is obviously setting themselves up for a move on taiwan. i think that's going to be the big story. 2020. 0 right now, there are 2000000000 people who are overweight or obese. it's profitable to sell food that is fatty and sugary and faulty and addicted. not at the individual level. it's not individual willpower. and if we go on believing that will never change, that industry has been influencing very deeply. the medical and scientific

establishment, ah, what's driving the? it's corporate, me, the . ah, the french defense ministry says nato partners will revise the strategic concept of reliance following a dispute. i've recently signed security deal, which we in the u. s. u. k. and australia. that left france in the cold also head, despite record e u energy prices on a huge shortfall in supplying the blog is loving fines on potent for using coal. is also blaming russia for the cross. it gets rather wanted hundreds of follow chaos at mill.