Why These Filmmakers Ate Nothing But Trash for Six Months
Syndicated from Yes Magazine, Jul 30, 2015
In the new documentary "Just Eat It," filmmakers Grant Baldwin and Jenny Rustemeyer swear off grocery shopping for six months and eat only food that would otherwise be thrown out.
Photo courtesy of Pure Souls Media.
After learning that nearly 50 percent of the food grown in North Americaeach year is thrown out, filmmakers Grant Baldwin and Jenny Rustemeyer decided to stop buying groceries and only eat food that would otherwise be thrown away. The pair’s exploration into the wastefulness of the industrial food system—and their experience with life-sustaining dumpster diving—is documented in their film Just Eat It.
Nearly 50 percent of the food grown in our society is thrown out.
The food-waste statistics exposed in the film are staggering. Couple that with surreal images, like Baldwin standing knee-deep in a dumpster full of hummus, and you might be left wondering how much your own personal actions contribute to this giant waste habit.
Want to know if you’re a part of the problem? Baldwin and Rustemeyer created a quiz that helps you understand how much food you’re wasting, and points you towards ways to waste less.
Just Eat It - A food waste story (Official Trailer) from Grant Baldwin
This article is shared here with permission from YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions. The author, Liz Pleasant, wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Liz is an assistant web editor at YES!
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On Jul 30, 2015 Kristin Pedemonti wrote:
I have dumpter dived and it's wonderful! In NYC that was how many of us survived living in an expensive city :) In DC many of the stores donate their leftovers to shelters and programs. Yay! A step in the right direction, grateful!
On Jul 31, 2015 Diane Emerson wrote:
The food waste issue is huge, and one way to reduce it is to buy your food from the growers directly, through farmer's markets, roadside farm stalls, and delivery through Community Supported Agriculture. Spray free or certified organic, and buy from your local cooperative food market for other items. The coop I belonged to in Portland allowed volunteers access to their out of date food kept in the coolers: for every 2 hours you worked, you could visit the produce or dairy cooler and take what you needed. Perfect.
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