Free the Food #25 ✔ | One Man's Trash Another Man's Treasure! [2018-01-25]
Activism to End The Systematic Food Waste...
by @reko
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Dumpster diving
Latest Treasures...
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."
"A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou."
Some delcious food I made from dumpstered potatoes, avocados, salad, mushrooms, tomatoes and sugar snaps...
Dumpstered beer and some high end Gin I bought with Steem from @spirits4you!
Current Free Food in Stock:
BreadCoffee
Bananas
Butter
Sugar snaps
Mushrooms
Onion
Tomatoes
Avocados
Carrots
Strawberries
Blueberries
Celery
Clementines
Beetroot
Pomegranate
Chips
Herbs
Beer
Fennel
Head cheese
Chicken
Crème fraîche
Salad
Sun dried tomatoes
Yoghurt
Coleslaw
Cheese
Wheat
Candy
Crispbread
Chestnut cream
Sweet buns
Apples
Crisps
Mozzarella
Flour
Minced meat
Tzatziki
Tacos
Vegan products
Roast beef
Salmon
Onions
Potatoes
Sun dried tomato sauce
Mango/peach sauce
Candle lights
Herbs
Mustard
Herring
Ham
Meatballs
Sausages
Herbs
Lemons
Greens
Past Treasures:
Salmon and cucumber is gonna be on the menu here for a while...
Found some sweet coconut water with peach and mango and also one with coconut water and espresso...nomnom! :)
Massive amounts of food in stock, this is just a part of it all...
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Was a cold and snowy night here in Gothenburg...
Lizzy is my loyal partner when diving, always ready to go! :)
Mission accomplished... ;)
Why do I Dumpster Dive?
- Bring awareness on how much food is wasted with our current system!
- Save the abundance of food that is wasted and share it with my network!
- Minimizing costs enabling me to Power Up 100%!
- Great regular exercise and good karma... ;)
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I am new to your campaign but just to open the discussion more here on this blog, what is your main theory of why all of this is being wasted? I can think of a couple different arguments. Some may say it is the greedy capitalists and their disdain for poor people. Others would say that it is government interference and overburdening regulations that force businesses to toss perfectly good products.
I would love to have this discussion with you and all of the followers here.
i can't speak for where @reko is, but in the US a lot of things have what is dubbed "shelf life" so when something is "over a designated time" it has to be thrown out! that means even perfectly good food. and there are regulations and legalities that wont let that food be donated! completely stupid! it is stupid laws- your second point i think.
i think also it is a human fear of real life... as a gardener and homesteader i know apples are not perfect ; food rots and goes to waste! the cycle of life happens very quickly. people try to have the perfect apples (all heavily sprayed) in the stores and the consumer looks at apples and only wants the perfect ones. it comes down to swaying public opinion and also public willingness to buy from local farmers and such as well. the stores carry what people want and what they buy so we are feeding the capitalist machine.
Reko good job! Do you have a many competitors?
Wow.
It is insane exactly how much food goes to the waste from grocers.
You are to be commended!
BLAST OFF BROTHER!!!
JGV
It is truly insane but we'll stop it don't worry!;)
Just the matter of time
Dinner looks good. Add some Tim's Cascade potato chips and a ginger beer and you've really got something!
I'm 100% salt free (inorganic) so no can do!;)
Good for you! Probably a lot healthier for you. So many things today are loaded with salt and sugar.
indeed but salt is the biggest problem imo especially as it's in everything and people don't think twice...
Sweet bro, you make me wana put my scuba gear on and go diving myself again! And you got your Gin!
YAY!:D
this is a lot of food that was been put to waste, we need to find a way to recycle all this food back to the common man who needs it instead of throwing it away , this is a waste and to imagine how many more are been thrown away in the whole of the country
Your steem power is great. Keep it up
My mind has been blown by your posts on this. What crazy "waste"!
I just need to find a dumpster with beer in it.
I appreciate this so much brother. Resteemed
Wow you have my respect for really doing it and diving into the dust.