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[distant traffic noise]

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[quiet voices]

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Jen >> I don't think
we're foodies.

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I think we're more
like food fans.

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You know at parties I'm always
the one who's hovering over

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the snack table.
And even when I was a kid

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I remember going to my friends' houses and just like

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opening their fridge and
taking food out of there.

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Grant >> As a kid I had
a problem with rationing

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than anything.

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And you can see that even though
I've got my own candy

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I'm looking at his going,
"That'd be nice."

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My mom thinks I'm looking at
my brother, admiring my brother

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but I know for sure that
I'm admiring his candy

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in this photo.

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I've read a couple
of news articles now

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that we're wasting
40 percent of our food.

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My question is if that
much food is being wasted,

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how much of it is still good
and can I eat it?

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Dana >> I was looking at various metrics for sustainable

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agriculture in the fruit
and vegetable industry.

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And I started coming
across these numbers

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about how much was being wasted.

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And here we were trying to get
farmers to be just a little bit

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more efficient with their water
or just a little bit more

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efficient with their
fertilizer use.

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And yet on the other hand
40 percent of the food

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was not actually being eaten.

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And I just thought, how is
nobody talking about this?

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Jonathan >> So 40 percent
of everything raised or grown

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is not in fact eaten.
And then globally

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about one third of all the food produced is not consumed.

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Dana >> It's very scattered throughout the system

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and it makes it hard
to point a finger

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and it also makes
it harder to see.

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Tristram >> If we're wasting a third of the world's food supply

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and we need to increase food
availability where it's needed,

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cutting food waste is one really
quite simple place to start.

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Jen >> Tomorrow we start
living off discarded food

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so tonight for our last supper
we're having all-you-can-eat.

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It's appropriate to eat here because it says

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"wasted food subject
to extra charge".

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Okay, so anything expired
or already wasted.

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Grant >> Yup.
Jen >> Meaning if they've put it...

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Jen >> Oh my goodness, if I forget
my lunch, do I have to go

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to like dumpster driving
on my lunch break,

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that's not cool.
[laughs]

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Grant >> You won't
forget your lunch.

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I can just picture your boss
seeing you, "Jenny?

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Is everything okay?"

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Grant >> We are super lucky,

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my brother is moving,
he's clearing out his fridge

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and it looks like we're getting our first food score.

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Jen >> Oh my goodness.
Nick >> Yeah.

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Jen >> Why weren't you guys eating this in the last couple of days?

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Nick >> Because we've been
at Linda's parents'.

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We're going to take some of it. Jen >> Oh yeah,

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you should take most of it. Grant >> No, we'll just take

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what you think you're
not going to want.

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Nick >> Okay.
Probably won't have it,

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you have it.
Jen >> Oh, it's fine.

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Nick >> That will keep.

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No, no, no.

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Jen >> Really?
Nick >> Yeah, smell.

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Jen >> Are you sure?
Nick >> Yes!

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It's been there forever.

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The sour cream we don't want.

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Nick >> You can have that.

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I hate this.
Don't want that.

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That's probably done.
Potato salad, garbage.

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Black beans from the other day, do you want those?

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Jen >> You want
to keep them, right?

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Nick >> Oh, and a nice red onion.

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This one's fine,
you can have that one.

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You want some cream?
It's either chili

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or spaghetti sauce.
Chili?

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You can probably take this one.

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Look at all this.

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Thanks for shopping
at Nick and Linda's fridge.

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When you go shopping and you're
busy you forget what you have.

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It's a chore, right?
You have to go in your fridge

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find what you have and then figure out what you need

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to make a meal off that
and go shopping.

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And the reality is you're
out shopping and busy

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and you're like what should
we have for dinner?

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Let's get this, do-do-do,
fill it up, right?

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And you just keep piling up
this, this collection of stuff

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in the fridge.

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And some of it it's like
"I don't want that,"

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"Do I really want leftovers
from last night?"

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Nothing wrong with food, probably going to taste okay,

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but I had it last night and
so I have to have to have it

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again tonight but we've
got enough money to buy

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a whole brand new meal, right? So that's part of it,

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it's just a wealthy society.

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Grant >> Thanks, Nick.
Nick >> Not bad.

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This is a small one.
That's good.

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That would have been...

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It's usually like a full
Santa bag so good job, guys.

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Jonathan >> We fill our refrigerators to the point

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that we couldn't possibly use
everything before it goes bad.

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There was a study in New York,
they looked at all

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the food waste in one county, and the most waste

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came from households,
more than from restaurants,

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more than from supermarkets, more than from farms.

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Dana >> In our households we're wasting somewhere between

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15 and 25 percent of the food that we're buying.

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You know that's expensive.
I mean imagine walking out

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of a grocery store with
four bags of groceries,

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dropping one in the parking lot and just not bothering

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to pick it up.
And that's essentially

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what we're doing
in our homes today.

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Delaney >> Seven dollars.
Customer >> Okay, thank you.

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Delaney >> Thank you,
have a good day.

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Grant >> What do you have
for culls right now?

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Delaney >> So this.
Grant >> Okay.

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Delaney >> So this one I knew it wouldn't sell when I put it out.

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It has this little bulge
because it rained hard.

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They get an abnormal
formation when it rains

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and I knew it wouldn't sell
as soon as I put it out.

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I should have just composted it.

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That's why I'm going
to give it to you.

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You guys can totally take all this and take all the chard.

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Grant >> Well,
you'll use one, right?

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Delaney >> No, I won't.

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Like I can't use any of
this stuff for the weekend.

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Grant >> This is a lot of greens, okay, let's stop.

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I'm going to give you ten bucks. Delaney >> Sure.

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That's probably too much.

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Delaney >> My wife and I
operate Ice Cap Organics.

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We're a market garden farm.

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We sell mostly to farmers'
markets and the local CSA.

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We've been doing it
for five years.

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We're all vegetables and
that's what we do for a living.

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Delaney >> Hey, dude.
How's it going?

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Customer >> Good, man.

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Delaney >> If this was what I had
and there was an hour left

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in the market, that one bunch
of chard would sit there,

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and no one would buy it.
But if I had 30 bunches of chard

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all bursting out I'd probably sell 25 bunches of chard.

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So what does that say?

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People are totally
impulse shopping

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and they think if
there is one left

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that there is something
wrong with it.

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People are always looking
a lot for value

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and for aesthetic appeal.

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And I think a lot of it
has to do with people just

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kind of assuming that what
looks better, tastes better.

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The farmers' market has more people that are open to trying

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things that look different
and that's kind of nice

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but still overall there can be
a lot of a good crop at a market

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that won't get sold if it
has just a slight blemish

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or something is wrong
with it aesthetically.

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Dana >> Not every apple
grows perfectly red

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and perfectly round on a tree.

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And so when we expect that
going into the store

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we're driving waste
up the system.

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Stores are very careful to have their produce sections

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look beautiful.

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And they don't want to ruin
their image by having something

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like a bargain shelf or products
that don't look perfect.

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Tristram >> I went to a banana plantation and after one day of harvest

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on a single plantation
there was a truck load

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of bananas being wasted.

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And those were being wasted
solely on the basis

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of cosmetic standards.

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The banana plantations
growing bananas

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for European supermarkets. Supermarkets tell you

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what diameter,
length, curvature,

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all of those parameters
have to be exactly right

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for that supermarket so bananas basically look the same.

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It is deeply shocking
when you see mountains,

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concentrated mountains
of food being wasted.

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It's something that every time
I see I still get shocked by it.

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Harold >> We're a very large operation for our commodity

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which are peaches,
plums and nectarines.

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To put it in perspective
I probably produce, for peaches,

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about a third as many peaches
as the State of Georgia does.

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Chris >> We have ladies
grading the fruit.

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They're graders and
they sort out the fruit

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that is not going
to go into a box.

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You know they're looking
for scars like this.

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That you and I could cut

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that off right there and eat it

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but unfortunately they don't

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want it in the box.
A lot of it is about appearance.

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This is edible but it's not
edible to the supermarkets.

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Harold >> They have
state standards.

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They have the USDA or Federal
State Standards for product

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but the retailer standards
far exceed

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that which is placed
on us by the state.

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The amount of fruit that's
left either in the field

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or is discarded after it
gets in the packing house,

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I've seen it as high
as 70 percent.

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The least I have seen
is 20 percent

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that gets thrown away
for a lot of times

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no reason that a consumer
would think would be practical.

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Chris >> I'll call up the food bank and say I can get you

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an extra load this week
because we're throwing away

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perfectly good fruit
with nothing wrong with it.

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There is just no market for it.

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Harold >> We donate a lot of
fruit to the Northern California

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Food Bank but they do not
have the capacity

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or the infrastructure
to manage the amount fruit

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that we could
possibly give them.

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A jam and jelly company
will take a little bit of it

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but there is so much of it
that gets thrown away.

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Chris >> As a grower,
that's heartbreaking.

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When you grow the fruit and
there is nothing wrong with it

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and you can't sell it,
that bothers me.

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[fruit thumps, clatters]

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Cameron >> So here's a,
here's a whole celery plant.

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So on the heart machine,
the heart machine will cut

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the heart to length
more or less like that

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and then the crews
will drop that.

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And there's your heart.

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Look at all this.
We have to peel a certain amount

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of stalks off so they
can fit in the bag.

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You know, you saw me,
that's one square foot.

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And I got probably two pounds
of product right there.

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With a little bit of peanut butter and some raisins

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you've got ants on a log, right?

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They're perfectly good stalks.

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None of us are fans
of the waste that we get

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because obviously there's
a lot of good stuff here

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you could dice up
and put in soups.

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We've tried, it just didn't
even pay for the labour

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that it cost to pick it up

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so obviously it wasn't feasible.

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[murmur]

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Dana >> We have this
culture of abundance.

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Part of being a good host is
having more than plenty of food

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available for someone.

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Jonathan >> If you've ever been in
that situation where you've

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had people over and
completely run out of food

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at the end of the meal
there's this odd sense

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that you have failed as a host.

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[murmur, clatter]

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Dana H. >> Basic general rule
of thumb when you're a chef

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and you're working in a kitchen,

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don't ever run out of food ever.

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Some guests really like that bountiful, plentifulness

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of a buffet whereas we have guests that come and stay

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at our hotel and dine with us quite frequently that tell us

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not to have a lot of food.
They want us to be

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very selective in what
we're putting out

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and making sure that
we're managing the foods

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because they don't want
to see that waste.

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Jen >> Part of my job at work
is to organize events.

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And we always have catering.
And I've become so conscious

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of the food waste.

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We had this event today
and it was so frustrating.

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We were working with
another organization

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and it was a big event.
There was like 200 people.

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Usually we order 75 percent
of what there is going to be

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but they were so paranoid
about not having enough food.

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Like they said that would be the
most embarrassing thing possible

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if we didn't have enough food.

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And I felt so peer pressured.

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We ended up ordering food
for 190 people

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when we thought
we would have 200.

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And we had an unbelievable
amount of leftovers.

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She actually even used
the analogy when we were

00:14:54.833 --> 00:14:56.766
discussing this.
She was like, "It's like when

00:14:56.766 --> 00:14:58.833
you serve someone at your house, if you had just enough food

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that would be really embarrassing."

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And I was like, "But I don't think that would be embarrassing

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I think that would be awesome."

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Music.

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Grant >> Things are going
to get harder now

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because I just realized we're running low on cooking oil.

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We've still got some flour.
We're out of sugar.

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We're out of honey,
any sort of sweetener.

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>> I'm fatigued
with this project.

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I don't want to do it anymore. It's not that fun.

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Grant >> Well the point
of the project is not about

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maintaining a certain
happiness or comfort level.

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It's about proving that
there's food being thrown away.

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Jen >> Yeah, but...
Grant >> This is not a lifestyle

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that I want to continue.
Jen >> Well neither do I,

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so let's stop.
Grant >> I don't want to stop

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because we haven't proved anything yet.

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Jen >> One month, three months, six months like okay,

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so it's more impressive than
if you do it for ten years.

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Why don't you just to do it
for ten years then?

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>> Don't be...
Jen >> Because it's ridiculous.

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[distant traffic hum...]

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[rustling]

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Grant >> Let's see what's here.

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[rustling, clatter]

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Dollar ninety-nine!

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This is organic here.

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Grant >> So the last time
I came to this place

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I was in there and I was
rooting around the bin

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and the owner was
closing up I guess

00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:48.000
and threw some garbage
on top of me.

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And he's like, "Oh, I'm sorry."

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I was like "Oh."
He goes, "So..."

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That was like the lowest
of the low.

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[Jen quietly chuckles]

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Jen >> You never told me that. Grant >> I know.

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I just felt really embarrassed that I was in his bin

00:17:04.033 --> 00:17:07.066
and then he felt really sad
for me probably like,

00:17:07.066 --> 00:17:10.033
"Oh, I just threw
garbage on a bum."

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Music.

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That was the lowest point.

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Music.

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You know I didn't get anything
good that night either.

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Music.

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Jonathan >> To me
it's sort of funny

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that wasting food is not taboo.

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It's one of the last
things you can do,

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one of the last environmental ills that you can just

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get away with.

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You know if you are walking down
the street and had a can of soda

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you couldn't find the trash can,

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you were just going
to throw it on the ground.

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I mean that is the ultimate sin
in many places, littering,

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and you could actually
be fined for doing that.

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Same thing with not recycling.

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It is something that in many places could get you in trouble

00:18:00.633 --> 00:18:03.766
but throwing away food
is perfectly fine.

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Wasting food is not only
widespread but it's condoned.

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Music.

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So the last time we were
asked to not waste food

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was during World War II.
And there was this sense

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that we had to sacrifice
for the good of the country,

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for the war effort.

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Presenter >> Now here we have an ordinary loaf of home-made bread.

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Watch closely.

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[whiz]
[applause]

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Audience Member >> Imagine that, a whole
loaf of bread disappearing

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before our very eyes.
Presenter >> Watch this.

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[poof]
There, madam, is the amount

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of bread that you cause
to disappear every week.

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Audience Member >> You must be crazy.
There isn't that much bread

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in the world.
Presenter >> There is that much

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less bread in the world every week through household waste.

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Yes, ladies and gentleman, it is horrifying fact that waste...

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Dana >> And there were posters like "food is a weapon,

00:18:53.566 --> 00:18:56.733
don't waste it" and all
sorts of other propaganda

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to really encourage the public
not to waste food.

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Jonathan >> And since that time it's been the opposite.

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Dana >> Food really
became more plentiful.

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All of a sudden we did start
to see much more abundant

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and cheaper food.

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Jonathan >> Our notion of
what's a reasonable amount

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of food to eat has changed.

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This idea of larger portions
is seeping into our households

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and now we're serving
our friends and families

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too much food.

00:19:23.166 --> 00:19:26.733
The Joy of Cooking is
that venerable cookbook

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that's been around for ages
and many of the recipes

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have stayed the same
but the number of people

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that it serves has changed.

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And so you'll have the same
recipe from 20 or 30 years ago

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and in the current version,
it's only feeding two people

00:19:42.833 --> 00:19:47.133
instead of four or maybe it's four people instead of six.

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Music.

00:19:49.933 --> 00:19:53.433
Dana >> The average cookie
has quadrupled in calories

00:19:53.433 --> 00:19:55.433
since the mid '80s.
And we're looking at

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larger portions in almost everything we're eating.

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Jonathan >> It happens
all the time at restaurants

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where we're often
given so much food

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that we can either overeat
or waste food.

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And in some cases you
can actually do both.

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Music.

00:20:15.366 --> 00:20:18.233
[projector clatter]

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Grant >> My granddad
never wasted anything.

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He obviously grew up through
that time where people

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were more considerate through World War II and whatnot.

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And we used to kind
of laugh behind his back

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because he would always
reuse his teabag.

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I swear that he would
use it for days on end.

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Music.

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And at the time I thought
that that was really...

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I thought that was ridiculous
like, get a new teabag.

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And he was pretty much
like that with everything.

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If he had any leftovers even if
it was like two spoonfuls left

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and he couldn't finish it he would put that in the container

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in the fridge.
And he would eat it.

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You know he wasn't just putting
his leftovers in the fridge

00:21:01.633 --> 00:21:04.866
and leaving them there.
He would finish them.

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Music.

00:21:09.333 --> 00:21:13.800
What I used to think was
funny about what he did

00:21:13.800 --> 00:21:17.866
I now find it sort of inspiring.

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Music.

00:21:21.100 --> 00:21:28.333
[spoon clinks]

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Grant >> We've had almost
no luck finding food

00:21:35.733 --> 00:21:38.166
behind grocery stores.

00:21:42.233 --> 00:21:44.733
Jen >> It's locked.
Grant >> There are almost always

00:21:44.733 --> 00:21:48.433
locked bins or
they are compactors.

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Jen >> It's locked.

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Everything is locked.

00:21:55.300 --> 00:21:57.233
Grant >> Now we've been
looking a little bit further

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up the supply chain
in wholesale areas

00:22:00.033 --> 00:22:02.200
a little further
out of the city.

00:22:10.900 --> 00:22:12.900
Holy cow!

00:22:18.900 --> 00:22:21.033
There's so much granola.

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Lots of salsa.

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Jen >> Hurry up.

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Grant >> Fudge Walnut Treat,

00:22:36.433 --> 00:22:38.666
I think it's fascinating.

00:22:38.666 --> 00:22:41.200
I, I, I'm starting
to enjoy this.

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I've seen people do this
in videos and I've seen photos

00:22:52.833 --> 00:22:56.200
and stuff but I didn't actually
believe that this is how much

00:22:56.200 --> 00:22:58.366
one could find.

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I thought we were
going to be struggling.

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Music.

00:23:12.200 --> 00:23:18.733
Music.

00:23:18.733 --> 00:23:22.100
Grant >> Hi, Mum.
Mother >> So you're not starving

00:23:22.100 --> 00:23:24.766
by the sound of it.
Grant >> We're not starving.

00:23:24.766 --> 00:23:28.900
It's always a lot of one or two
things and there is never...

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You never sort of
have a variety.

00:23:39.866 --> 00:23:44.033
Mother >> Let's put this
in the kitchen.

00:23:47.633 --> 00:23:49.566
Jen >> Like we're over here
to see family and I don't want

00:23:49.566 --> 00:23:51.500
to spend my whole time like
driving around looking for food,

00:23:51.500 --> 00:23:53.433
it's ridiculous.
Grant >> We're not spending

00:23:53.433 --> 00:23:55.366
the whole time.
Jen >> And the other thing

00:23:55.366 --> 00:23:57.300
is your mom just asked us
to pick up two litres of milk

00:23:57.300 --> 00:23:59.233
so I'm going to pick up
two litres of milk for her.

00:23:59.233 --> 00:24:01.966
Grant >> Yeah, but it's for her,
we're not going to eat it.

00:24:01.966 --> 00:24:05.600
Jen >> We said that if we
go over to someone's house

00:24:05.600 --> 00:24:07.733
we can eat their food
so that we can alleviate

00:24:07.733 --> 00:24:11.200
that kind of stress of making everybody feel uncomfortable

00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:14.466
but we didn't take into account like when we go away

00:24:14.466 --> 00:24:17.266
for an entire weekend.
We can't just like go

00:24:17.266 --> 00:24:20.066
to someone's house and then
just eat everything they have.

00:24:20.066 --> 00:24:23.700
We can't drive around a strange
city and try to find some food.

00:24:23.700 --> 00:24:25.633
I mean we're trying to do it now

00:24:25.633 --> 00:24:27.633
and it's not working
out very well.

00:24:30.866 --> 00:24:33.133
No way there is even
anything in there.

00:24:41.733 --> 00:24:43.833
Is there any way that
I could look at the stuff

00:24:43.833 --> 00:24:45.833
you culled today
and buy some of it?

00:24:45.833 --> 00:24:48.533
Clerk >> Oh, possibly.
This is some of salads

00:24:48.533 --> 00:24:50.533
that we pulled off today.
Jen >> Oh that's great.

00:24:50.533 --> 00:24:52.666
Sweet, okay.
Clerk >> They're just dated

00:24:52.666 --> 00:24:54.700
and we have pull them off
three days before.

00:24:56.400 --> 00:24:59.133
Jen >> Should we get two salads?
Grant >> Yeah.

00:24:59.133 --> 00:25:02.100
Jen >> Okay, awesome, thanks.
Clerk >> You're welcome.

00:25:02.100 --> 00:25:05.100
Jen >> Oh!
Grant >> Are those culls?

00:25:05.100 --> 00:25:07.866
Ask him.
[laughs]

00:25:07.866 --> 00:25:10.000
Is that culled stuff?
Clerk >> What, right there?

00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:11.933
Jen >> The bottom of the rack. Clerk >> We're not allowed

00:25:11.933 --> 00:25:13.866
to sell that stuff, no.
Jen >> Why not?

00:25:13.866 --> 00:25:15.800
Clerk >> It's policy.
Because we're known

00:25:15.800 --> 00:25:17.733
for the highest quality.

00:25:17.733 --> 00:25:19.666
Jen >> But those bananas
look totally good.

00:25:19.666 --> 00:25:21.600
Clerk >> Just trying
to do my job.

00:25:21.600 --> 00:25:24.733
Jen >> I know, you totally are.
Can I buy those bananas?

00:25:24.733 --> 00:25:26.900
Clerk >> Yes, you want
to buy the bananas, sure.

00:25:26.900 --> 00:25:29.866
Jen >> Yeah, that looks perfect. Clerk >> Those ones are okay.

00:25:29.866 --> 00:25:31.800
Jen >> Awesome.
I'm not going to ask for a deal.

00:25:31.800 --> 00:25:33.733
I'd rather just not
draw attention to it.

00:25:33.733 --> 00:25:35.666
And the food is
perfectly good anyway.

00:25:35.666 --> 00:25:38.600
Cashier >> Hi, need a bag?
Jen >> No, thank you.

00:25:38.600 --> 00:25:42.800
Music.

00:25:42.800 --> 00:25:45.166
[mingled voices]

00:25:45.166 --> 00:25:52.266
Music.

00:25:58.933 --> 00:26:02.200
Grant >> It's from a pizza chain.
Oh my god, look at it.

00:26:02.200 --> 00:26:04.966
Oh my god, it's a motherlode!

00:26:04.966 --> 00:26:08.233
Okay, my buddy is working on
a photo shoot for a pizza chain

00:26:08.233 --> 00:26:12.066
and so they're shooting
all these bits of food.

00:26:12.066 --> 00:26:15.833
Uh, let's see what it says,
pre-cooked bags of bacon,

00:26:15.833 --> 00:26:17.766
chicken, sausage, mushrooms.

00:26:17.766 --> 00:26:19.733
Ahh, chicken!

00:26:22.366 --> 00:26:24.366
Okay, let's go.

00:26:26.766 --> 00:26:28.700
What's going on?

00:26:28.700 --> 00:26:30.700
Friend >> If you go down there
and to the left,

00:26:30.700 --> 00:26:33.300
you keep going straight you're going to find a green dumpster.

00:26:33.300 --> 00:26:36.400
So uh, go and check out what
it's got in store for you.

00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:38.800
I don't even know what
your game is with this.

00:26:38.800 --> 00:26:40.800
Grant >> We're trying to survive off of food waste right now.

00:26:40.800 --> 00:26:42.800
Friend >> Really?
Well, you're going to hit

00:26:42.800 --> 00:26:45.466
the jackpot pretty soon here.

00:26:48.166 --> 00:26:50.433
Friend >> So, it was in
the fridge all weekend.

00:26:50.433 --> 00:26:52.433
Grant >> Oh, okay.

00:26:53.900 --> 00:26:56.500
Friend >> Food styling is
really interesting because

00:26:56.500 --> 00:27:00.466
anytime you see a picture of food in an ad or in a commercial

00:27:00.466 --> 00:27:03.100
somebody has spent hours
preparing it and making it

00:27:03.100 --> 00:27:05.533
look just right and
choosing the right tomatoes

00:27:05.533 --> 00:27:07.800
and the right piece of meat
and the right pepperoni

00:27:07.800 --> 00:27:10.333
to make it look
really appetizing.

00:27:10.333 --> 00:27:13.333
Music.

00:27:13.333 --> 00:27:15.366
Jen >> That's a lot of chicken.

00:27:15.366 --> 00:27:17.366
You want to take all of it?

00:27:17.366 --> 00:27:19.366
Grant >> Yeah, we'll
put it in the freezer.

00:27:19.366 --> 00:27:21.366
Jen >> What are you going to do with these many bacon bits?

00:27:21.366 --> 00:27:23.466
It's gross.
We don't even eat bacon, hardly.

00:27:23.466 --> 00:27:25.833
Grant >> Well, we'll
add it to everything.

00:27:42.866 --> 00:27:44.966
Jen >> We don't have
anywhere to put it.

00:27:48.300 --> 00:27:50.500
You get these tomatoes they only have a couple of days on them,

00:27:50.500 --> 00:27:52.433
then you get some lettuce and
it only has a couple of days.

00:27:52.433 --> 00:27:54.366
And everything in our fridge
only has a couple of days.

00:27:54.366 --> 00:27:56.366
Our whole fridge
is full of stuff

00:27:56.366 --> 00:27:58.733
that needs to be eaten tomorrow. I started making a list

00:27:58.733 --> 00:28:01.100
on the chalkboard of things that must be eaten in the next day

00:28:01.100 --> 00:28:03.800
and it's way more food
than we can possibly eat.

00:28:05.933 --> 00:28:09.366
Tristram >> When we grow food
we start with the soil

00:28:09.366 --> 00:28:11.766
and some sunlight.

00:28:11.766 --> 00:28:15.166
The plants grow,
we harvest the produce.

00:28:15.166 --> 00:28:18.300
We take it into the packhouse. We'll sort the ones

00:28:18.300 --> 00:28:21.066
that fit the standards
of the supermarkets

00:28:21.066 --> 00:28:23.166
that it's providing.

00:28:23.166 --> 00:28:26.033
And a lot of that food
is wasted at that stage.

00:28:26.033 --> 00:28:29.666
Then through distribution,
it will have to survive

00:28:29.666 --> 00:28:32.766
a long journey
to wherever the shop is.

00:28:32.766 --> 00:28:34.700
It might sit on a shelf
and some of the food

00:28:34.700 --> 00:28:36.633
might be wasted there.

00:28:36.633 --> 00:28:38.566
Dana >> And then the consumers come in and pick their favourites.

00:28:38.566 --> 00:28:40.500
And you know,
there is your winner!

00:28:40.500 --> 00:28:43.233
It makes it home, but who knows what happens to it then.

00:28:43.233 --> 00:28:45.433
Music.

00:28:45.433 --> 00:28:48.666
♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪

00:28:48.666 --> 00:28:52.700
♪ Ooh, ooh, ohh ♪

00:28:52.700 --> 00:28:54.800
♪ Whoaaa ♪

00:28:54.800 --> 00:29:01.066
Music.

00:29:01.066 --> 00:29:04.833
♪ Won't you come see about me? ♪

00:29:04.833 --> 00:29:07.000
♪ I'll be alone, ♪

00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:09.633
♪ dancing you know it, baby ♪

00:29:09.633 --> 00:29:13.400
♪ Tell me your troubles
and doubts ♪

00:29:13.400 --> 00:29:17.200
♪ Given everything
inside and out ♪

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♪ I'm going to take you apart ♪

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♪ I'll put us back together
at heart, baby ♪

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♪ Don't you forget about me ♪

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Music.

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♪ As you walk on by ♪

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♪ Will you call my name? ♪

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♪ As you walk on by ♪

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♪ Will you call my name? ♪

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♪ Will you walk away? ♪

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Music.

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♪ Will you call my name? ♪

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Music.

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♪ I say la la la la ♪

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♪ La la la la ♪

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♪ La la la la la ♪

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♪ La la la la ♪

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♪ La la la la la ♪

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Tristram >> When we fail
to eat it

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what we have failed
is an entire system

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which is in itself
already wasteful.

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And all of the embodied energy
and the resources in that

00:30:31.300 --> 00:30:34.566
piece of food, all of that
has been wasted.

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It's been in vain.

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Grant >> This is my favourite day of the project.

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I found some chocolate.

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And I found quite a bit of it.

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Jen >> Is it expired
or something?

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Grant >> Not for a year.
Jen >> What?

00:31:03.066 --> 00:31:12.366
Music.

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Microwave.
Barbeques.

00:31:25.633 --> 00:31:27.666
Not on the list.

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Not even expired.

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So if they weren't on
the federal recall list

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and they're not past date

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then I think they're thrown out because they don't have

00:31:37.966 --> 00:31:41.033
French writing on them,
French labeling.

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[sizzle]

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Jen >> So, at the beginning
we had four eggs,

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two for Grant and two for me.

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And of course he ate his
right away, but I've been

00:31:56.800 --> 00:31:59.100
rationing mine because I didn't know when we were going

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to find eggs again.
I'm saving them in case

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I need to bake
something special.

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I've been going to the grocery
store and looking in all

00:32:05.466 --> 00:32:08.033
the cartons trying to find
the ones with the cracked eggs.

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Nobody wants to buy
the cracked ones.

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So I'm willing to buy the ones
that are imperfect

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and I haven't found
any yet though.

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But as of today I'd say
we don't have to ration anymore.

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Grant found tons of eggs
in a wholesale dumpster

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and they still have
a few weeks on the date.

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Actually I think we're going to have the opposite problem now.

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Now we have so many eggs it's
like a race to eat the eggs.

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We've putting them in a glass
of water to make sure

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that they sink because that means the eggs are good to eat.

00:32:45.900 --> 00:32:48.833
But it's still a lot
of eggs for two people.

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Delaney >> Our farm and all
the farms that are like ours,

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when we have a lot of stuff
left over or if a crop

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doesn't work out it's
not such a big deal.

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It's a loss of time and money

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but it's not waste as such because we still use it.

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We compost it and we actually
put it back into the dirt

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and it's really valuable for us.

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It's to the point where
we actually buy compost.

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Having compost on the farm
is also really valuable.

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Zucchini is always a good example because it,

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it produces so much at
its peak production time

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that in the shoulder seasons it's barely keeping up

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to demand and then once
it really ramps up

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and starts producing
the maximum amount

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it triples the amount of demand.

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If we grew less zucchini then
we'd have less zucchini waste

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but then we wouldn't be able to
meet demand in the early summer

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and spring and then in the later
summer when things cool down.

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We sell right to the people
that are eating the food.

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So there is actually
very little opportunity

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for the food to go bad.

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We harvest on Friday.

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We sell it on Saturday.

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Well, it's going to last
for two weeks in your crisper.

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So you're going to have
a lot more opportunity

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to use that vegetable.

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Music.

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It tends to be
14 to 16 hours a day,

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seven days a week
during the harvest season.

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Our harvest season is condensed in this part of the world

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so we really have to go for it when things are yielding

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to put enough away
for the winter to survive.

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Music.

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[wind howls, birds chirp]

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Tristram >> Abundance
is the success story

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of the human species.

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You look back to the
creation of agriculture

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10,000 to 12,000 years ago,

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that was all about
creating surplus,

00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:55.566
creating more food than you need in any individual moment.

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That allows you to store
food over the winter.

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It allows you to store food
in case there is a bad harvest.

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It allows you to trade food,
to have feasts

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which is a really important
part of human society.

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Those are all wonderful things.

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And in the past if you
had even more surplus

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than you could possibly use, maybe it didn't matter so much.

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The problem is now that all
rich countries in the world

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in North America and
Northern Europe have between

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150 and 200 percent of the food that they actually need.

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Music.

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People think that environmental problems are about smoke stacks,

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about roads, about factories, about cities and concrete

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and for sure those
are significant.

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But if you look at the earth
from the sky

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what you see is fields.

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And it is there that we have
had the biggest impact.

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Wasting a third of the land
and all of that energy

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that we currently use by wasting the food that we've produced

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is one of the most gratuitous aspects of human culture

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as it stands today.

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Music.

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Music.

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At the moment we are
trashing our land

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to grow food that no one eats.

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>> I really see
preventing food waste

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as a parallel
to energy efficiency.

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If you think about
both energy and food

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they're resource
intensive industries

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facing an increase in demand
as population grows

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and as the world population
increases in affluence.

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Music.

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Jonathan >> From an energy perspective there's an estimate

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that about four percent of
all U.S. energy consumption

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is embedded in the food
that we ultimately toss.

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So four percent of all
the energy we're using

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is being thrown away.

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Music.

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It's difficult to think of water as a precious commodity

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especially for many people
who don't live in desert

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or drought-ridden communities but the water that is embedded

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in the food we throw out
could meet the household needs

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of 500 million people.

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Tristram >> One of the problems when food waste started being

00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:26.966
picked up by governments and
they started doing studies

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on where food was being wasted and what kind of food

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was being wasted it immediately became apparent that by tonnage

00:39:33.466 --> 00:39:35.666
fruit and vegetables
were being wasted the most.

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And so a lot of campaigning
went into focusing

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on fruit and vegetable waste.

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And that's not a bad thing.
I mean of course we need

00:39:41.700 --> 00:39:44.100
to not chuck away a whole
load of carrots just because

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they're not straight,
but although the tonnages

00:39:48.266 --> 00:39:51.666
for meat and dairy products
being wasted are much smaller,

00:39:51.666 --> 00:39:54.700
the resource use represented
by that waste of meat

00:39:54.700 --> 00:39:56.700
and dairy products
is far greater.

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You use vastly more land
and other resources

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to produce your meat
and dairy products

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than you do your
vegetable products.

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Dana >> Just last night
I was at a barbecue

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and there were all
these extra hamburgers.

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For each one of those hamburgers the water that went into

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producing it is equivalent
to taking a 90 minute shower.

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Tristram >> We have to use
our land in a sensitive way,

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to plan and to manage it
in a way that ensures

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that people are fed and
ensures the long term health

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of the ecosystems that
we depend on for our survival.

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Jen >> Okay, let's go.

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It's a lot different
than I thought.

00:40:58.600 --> 00:41:00.533
I thought we were really going
to be scrounging for food.

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But instead it's,
it's more like

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mass quantities
of certain foods.

00:41:08.066 --> 00:41:10.366
The scale of the stuff
that we've seen so far

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is pretty shocking and
I think we've only seen

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like the littlest bit.

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Grant >> It's been impossible
to track how much we found.

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Often when we find a pile
of food we're just looking

00:41:43.900 --> 00:41:47.800
at the top few inches
and it's eight feet deep.

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So we don't even know
what's down there.

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Music.

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It's been challenging enough trying to log everything

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that we've actually taken.

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Music.

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Grant >> 225 grams.
Two limes.

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And a mandarin orange.

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Jen >> I've been trying to track how much food we find.

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And in the first month alone
we brought home

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1,127 dollars of food.

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And even we're trying to pay
for it we only ended up

00:42:35.266 --> 00:42:37.200
spending 33 dollars.

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And then after that it just
kind of got out of control

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and I couldn't even
monitor it anymore.

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Music.

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Grant >> I'm just starting
to lose the excitement

00:42:45.900 --> 00:42:48.033
of finding tons
of food like this.

00:42:48.033 --> 00:42:50.500
But ultimately it's the fact
that what we're doing

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it's not reducing
the amount of waste.

00:42:53.400 --> 00:42:56.966
Somebody is losing money on
this when it gets thrown out.

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Jen >> I mean,
on the one hand I'm happy

00:43:01.800 --> 00:43:04.266
because we found food
and it's really exciting.

00:43:04.266 --> 00:43:07.100
And then on the other hand
I feel so guilty

00:43:07.100 --> 00:43:09.833
for even feeling excited
because it's such a shame

00:43:09.833 --> 00:43:11.966
that so much food
is going to waste.

00:43:11.966 --> 00:43:16.033
And it's, it's really
depressing actually.

00:43:16.033 --> 00:43:18.200
Music.

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Grant >> Highs and lows
of the project, you know.

00:43:20.700 --> 00:43:22.700
Highs and lows.

00:43:22.700 --> 00:43:25.200
Mmm, this is a high point.

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Jen >> I'm pretty sure
that people think

00:43:28.833 --> 00:43:30.966
that we're eating food scraps,

00:43:30.966 --> 00:43:33.000
scrapings off people's
plates or something

00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:34.933
because when I tell them
about the project

00:43:34.933 --> 00:43:37.133
they just get this weird look.

00:43:37.133 --> 00:43:39.833
I mean if they could see the
quality of the food that we find

00:43:39.833 --> 00:43:43.233
and the amount,
we've been eating pretty well.

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Music.

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Music.

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Music.

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Grant >> You're welcome
to grocery shop at our house.

00:44:21.800 --> 00:44:24.400
Take you need, we have too much. Friend >> Where'd you find this?

00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:26.333
Grant >> It's all
in the dumpster, man.

00:44:26.333 --> 00:44:28.266
Friend >> It's all...
In the dumpster?

00:44:28.266 --> 00:44:32.400
Sweet!
Sweet, organic free-range.

00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:34.766
Cheese, okay.

00:44:34.766 --> 00:44:38.800
Sure.
That looks good.

00:44:38.800 --> 00:44:41.466
Sweet.
Are you sure you can part

00:44:41.466 --> 00:44:43.400
with all this or?
Jen >> Oh yeah.

00:44:43.400 --> 00:44:45.333
Friend >> Yeah?

00:44:45.333 --> 00:44:49.466
Music.

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So none of this is open,
it's like perfectly...

00:44:51.566 --> 00:44:53.500
There is nothing wrong
with any of this.

00:44:53.500 --> 00:44:55.633
Cool.
Cheers, man.

00:44:55.633 --> 00:45:02.800
Music.

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Music.

00:45:07.866 --> 00:45:10.400
Jonathan >> Disking in food
or ploughing it under

00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:12.433
is certainly helpful
to the soil.

00:45:12.433 --> 00:45:15.000
It gets the nutrients
back to the soil

00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:17.900
and helps the soil
become more fertile

00:45:17.900 --> 00:45:20.800
but when you think about
the resources that go into

00:45:20.800 --> 00:45:24.333
producing our food, if we are
to rescue those foods

00:45:24.333 --> 00:45:26.433
and channel them
to people who need it

00:45:26.433 --> 00:45:29.600
that's a much better use of
the resources and nutrients

00:45:29.600 --> 00:45:32.866
than just simply
ploughing it under.

00:45:32.866 --> 00:45:34.900
Music.

00:45:34.900 --> 00:45:37.366
♪ Any day now
Any day now ♪

00:45:37.366 --> 00:45:39.800
♪ Any day now
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00:45:39.800 --> 00:45:41.733
♪ Any day now
Any day ♪

00:45:41.733 --> 00:45:44.866
Jonathan >> Gleaning is
the practice of going out

00:45:44.866 --> 00:45:48.200
into fields where there
have been harvests already

00:45:48.200 --> 00:45:50.766
and recovering goods
that otherwise

00:45:50.766 --> 00:45:52.966
would be ploughed under.

00:45:52.966 --> 00:45:55.900
I go gleaning because
it's a nice way

00:45:55.900 --> 00:45:57.933
to practice what I preach

00:45:57.933 --> 00:46:01.866
and to actually do something
to recover food

00:46:01.866 --> 00:46:03.866
and get it to people
who need it.

00:46:03.866 --> 00:46:06.666
It's a little more
participatory and active

00:46:06.666 --> 00:46:10.266
than just writing books
and giving talks.

00:46:10.266 --> 00:46:13.900
So we're headed to
a sweet potato field.

00:46:13.900 --> 00:46:17.566
The Society of Saint Andrew
runs this gleaning outing.

00:46:17.566 --> 00:46:21.400
And they run most gleaning
outings in this state.

00:46:23.166 --> 00:46:26.700
Hmm, if you guys want to stick around until 7:00 pm,

00:46:26.700 --> 00:46:29.800
we can go to the turkey shoot,

00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:32.000
the Barber Town turkey shoot.

00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:34.000
I've heard good things.

00:46:35.366 --> 00:46:37.300
Woman >> I've been good
So glad you could come.

00:46:37.300 --> 00:46:39.233
Picker >> They're perfectly
good sweet potatoes and we

00:46:39.233 --> 00:46:41.800
put them to very good use.
And when we deliver them

00:46:41.800 --> 00:46:44.600
they'll literally be on somebody's table tonight.

00:46:44.600 --> 00:46:47.166
Jonathan >> Wow, that's great.
Picker >> Which is a cool thing.

00:46:47.166 --> 00:46:49.100
Music.

00:46:49.100 --> 00:46:51.600
♪ Any day now
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♪ Any day now
Any day now ♪

00:46:53.800 --> 00:46:56.300
♪ Any day now
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Music.

00:46:58.233 --> 00:47:00.766
♪ Any day now
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00:47:00.766 --> 00:47:02.966
♪ Any day now
Any day now ♪

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♪ Any day now
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Jonathan >> Now the term gleaning dates back

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to the Old Testament.
And it used to refer

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to the practice of the hungry folks going to the fields

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and picking what
had been left behind.

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And many farmers would not
harvest certain parts

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of the field but obviously
there have been some changes

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since that time and now gleaning looks a little bit different

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where it's essentially volunteers harvesting food

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for the hungry.

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♪ Any day now
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♪ Any day now
Any day now ♪

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♪ Any day now
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Music.

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♪ Any day now
Any day now ♪

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♪ Any day now
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♪ Any day now
Any day ♪

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Jonathan >> There's a secondary motivation in that

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it's a whole lot of fun.
It's really neat

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to get out into the fields
and get your hands dirty

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and really play a role
in our food system.

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and also connect to where
your food comes from.

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♪ Well I've worked so hard ♪

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♪ Pushed my fingers
to the bone ♪

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Woman >> Oh, that's good.

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[indistinct voice]

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Where did they come from?

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Jonathan >> Just a farmer
who wasn't going to use them

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and he was nice enough
to let volunteers come glean.

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Woman >> This is good for me.

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You got more!
>> Yeah.

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>> They sure look good.

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Jonathan >> Before
I started gleaning

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I hadn't grown my own food.
I didn't really know what

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a broccoli plant looked like.

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I didn't know what collard
greens looked like in the field.

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And I certainly didn't
know how hard it was

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to pick sweet potatoes.

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Music.

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[birds chirp]

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Grant >> I've gained ten pounds.

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You can see it.

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There's definitely a curvature

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an extra...

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I think it's a combination
of more processed food

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but also just stuffing myself

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when we've got copious
amounts of one thing.

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You know, I don't
even like yogurt.

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I think there's probably about

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maybe nine or ten yogurts
in the fridge right now.

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This size if not bigger.

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Music.

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The race is not
trying to find food

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it's like trying
not waste it again.

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Jen >> But you don't have to
take so much, that's the thing.

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You don't need
to get ten yogurts.

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Grant >> I can't see...it's just
disheartening knowing that

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that if we don't take that food that's there right now,

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it's gone.

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It's going to landfill
next morning.

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Oh!

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Grant >> Since the beginning
of the project,

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Jen um, has been
missing one food

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and that's feta cheese.

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and the coolest thing
is the 'best by' date

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isn't from a year from now.

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Well it's not cool
it's thrown out

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but it's cool for Jen.

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It's a bit of a surprise.

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You can come in now.

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[laughs]
I got you something.

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[laughs]
Jen >> What is it?

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[laughs]
Grant >> Open it up.

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Jen >> Oh, it's feta cheese.

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[laughs]

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Thank you, that's awesome.

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It's what I've been craving.

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Doesn't expire until
December next year.

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We have more than a year on it.

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Wow, I didn't know that
feta lasts that long.

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That's amazing.

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Dana >> About 60 percent of consumers are throwing food away

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prematurely because
they don't understand

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what the dates are telling them.

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Tristram >> It's been shown that a million tons just in the U.K.

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of food are wasted in people's homes because of date labels.

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Dana >> There's two buckets
of dates out there.

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There's your 'sell by' dates
that are really a communication

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between the manufacturer
and the store saying,

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"Hey, if you sell this
product by this date,

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I promise that when your consumer gets it home

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it will still have
a shelf life left."

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Tristram >> That date
shouldn't appear visibly,

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it should be encoded so that only staff understand it

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because it confuses people.
They see 'display until',

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they see a date they think, "Ew, can't eat it after that date."

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Dana >> Then there's this whole
other bucket of dates

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which consumers are meant
to see and that's 'use by',

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'best by', 'enjoy by',
and 'guaranteed fresh by'

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and those dates are indicators of quality and not safety.

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Daniel >> There is no regulation that prevents them

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from selling it after
the 'best before' date

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because there is no safety concern with that product.

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Tristram >> I've talked to manufacturers of pies for example

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and their 'use by' date,
isn't the date that they think

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that is going to become dangerous in that scenario.

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They think it's the date
that they think the pastry

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will stop being perfectly crisp.

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Music.

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Jonathan >> Dates often create this sense that we can't

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possibly use an item
one minute after midnight

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on the day of the stamp
on the package.

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The only thing required
by federal law in the U.S.

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to have an expiration date label
on it is infant formula.

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Dana >> Other than that there's
really no other food product

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that has a federal regulation.

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Music.

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Grant >> Last night I went out looking for food in a place

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that I've gone a few times
and found a few things,

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but I came around the corner
and they had brought in

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a special dumpster

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and it was the size
of a small swimming pool

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and it was completely
filled with hummus.

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Music.

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Grant >> It's unlike anything
we'd seen so far.

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And initially I thought
oh, it must have all gone bad,

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they are throwing it out.

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But when I looked at it, it had three and a half weeks left

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on the 'best before' date.

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I took three or four home.
You can only eat so much hummus.

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I mean...

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When we started the project
I expected to find some waste

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and I really had prepared
myself to see it,

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but when you are actually standing in front

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of something like that,

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it was totally different.

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Music.

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Jonathan >> There is
this misconception

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that simply throwing something away isn't a big deal

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because food is biodegradable.

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Yes, that's true.
If you were to throw

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an apple core just out into
the woods, it's not a big deal.

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The problem comes when all
that waste is aggregated

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and it decomposes
without air in a landfill.

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That anaerobic condition
is what creates methane

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which is a greenhouse gas
that's more than 20 times

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as potent as CO2
at trapping heat.

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So essentially we are
creating climate change

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from our kitchen waste bins.

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Dana >> Putting food into
landfill is just a huge

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waste of resources
if nothing else.

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I mean those are nutrients that
we can be capturing and reusing.

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Jonathan >> So there's this
hierarchy of uses for our food.

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Obviously at the top
would be feeding people.

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That might not be just
feeding your family,

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maybe it's donating food and
the applies to restaurants

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and supermarkets as well.

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If we can't feed people then
we should try to feed animals.

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Feeding livestock or chickens
or whatever it may be

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is certainly an age old solution to the scraps and food waste

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that we have on hand.

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If you can't do that then
creating energy from it

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is the next best thing.

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Then composting, get the
resources back into the soil.

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Only if we can't do
any of the above

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should we be landfilling
or incinerating or sending

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our food to the waste
water treatment plant.

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In real life it's flipped
around and the majority

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of our food wastes does end up
going to the landfill.

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In the U.S. it's about 97 percent of all the food waste

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that's created ends up in
a landfill or an incinerator.

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Music.

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Tristram >> You need a robust system for ensuring

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that food waste can be recycled, can be feed to livestock

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and turned back into a resource
that we can use.

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Music.

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Music.

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Janet >> Our city
is built on excess,

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everything.

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We realize it must be though,

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to bring the people here.

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Music.

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We are taking a source that
most people would throw away

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and we are feeding it
to livestock.

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It's naturally making
protein for humans.

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It's the best source
for the food scraps.

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Humans are first.

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We are about seven miles
to the heart of Las Vegas.

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[rooster crows]

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Pig farming is our way of life.

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I started working for
the RC Farms in about 1969

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and I was secretary
for many, many years

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and then I ended up
being boss of RC Farms

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because I married Bob.

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Bob >> If you believe
in your product,

00:58:07.033 --> 00:58:09.033
you ought to advertise it.

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My father and mother,
they brought me up

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on a scrap feeding farm
in San Diego.

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[rooster crows]

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But then my dad found Las Vegas

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and they had an abundant supply.

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Here's some of the food scraps.

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Food that you didn't eat, leftover from your plate

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we'll turn it back
into a wholesome protein.

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We process to a boil,
this kills all the pathogens

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and the pigs love it.

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Thirty tons a day,

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thousand tons a month,

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some of it's never been touched.

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Look at all that,
the pigs are running.

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[laughs]

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My standard inventory now
is around 2,500 swine

00:59:07.566 --> 00:59:09.566
on the ranch.

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[pigs munch]

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You can hear them.
Can you hear them eating?

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Can you hear them chomping?

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That sounds like a nice brook over rocks to me.

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It's beautiful.
[laughs]

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[munches, slops]

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Janet >> He loves it
and I think

00:59:33.933 --> 00:59:36.666
it's just kind of in his blood.

00:59:36.666 --> 00:59:40.233
He would go out in
114 degree weather

00:59:40.233 --> 00:59:43.566
and been a hard worker
all of his life.

00:59:43.566 --> 00:59:45.500
Never seen him slack at all.

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Bob >> Over here is bread, returned bread.

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Music.

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Cakes and so on.

00:59:56.733 --> 00:59:59.400
Yeah, this would be every week.

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Music.

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Janet >> We've had numerous offers to sell this property

01:00:11.266 --> 01:00:15.900
and offer us many, many
millions of dollars

01:00:15.900 --> 01:00:18.133
and go off on cruises.

01:00:18.133 --> 01:00:20.233
That's not our lifestyle.

01:00:20.233 --> 01:00:22.866
We like our old farmhouse.

01:00:22.866 --> 01:00:26.500
We like our work.

01:00:26.500 --> 01:00:31.466
And he'll more than likely
will die with his boots on

01:00:31.466 --> 01:00:34.500
feeding food scraps to pigs.

01:00:34.500 --> 01:00:39.833
Music.

01:00:39.833 --> 01:00:44.266
[water trickles, rain patter]

01:00:47.733 --> 01:00:50.233
Jen >> Good, they look good.

01:00:50.233 --> 01:00:52.633
We've been saving
all of this chocolate

01:00:52.633 --> 01:00:54.733
because we want to
give it out to people

01:00:54.733 --> 01:00:56.666
so at Halloween we thought
it was a perfect opportunity

01:00:56.666 --> 01:00:58.600
and we're going to hand
it out to the kids.

01:00:58.600 --> 01:01:00.533
There's nothing wrong
with that or anything.

01:01:00.533 --> 01:01:02.466
So we're going to give out
these full size chocolate bars.

01:01:02.466 --> 01:01:04.400
Like when I was a kid that
would have been the ultimate.

01:01:04.400 --> 01:01:06.400
Grant >> Oh hey, guys.
Children >> Trick or treat!

01:01:06.400 --> 01:01:08.333
Grant >> Nice pirate.
Pick a bar.

01:01:08.333 --> 01:01:15.100
Music.

01:01:15.100 --> 01:01:17.700
Dad >> What do you say?
Child >> Thank you!

01:01:17.700 --> 01:01:20.733
Jen >> Oh you got it, right on!

01:01:20.733 --> 01:01:23.600
Dad >> Holy cow!
Jen >> Happy Halloween.

01:01:23.600 --> 01:01:25.966
Woman >> Trick or treat.
Dad >> These guys give

01:01:25.966 --> 01:01:28.233
big chocolate bars.
You've got to come back.

01:01:28.233 --> 01:01:30.233
Mom >> Mama will share
that one with you.

01:01:30.233 --> 01:01:33.900
Child >> Happy Halloween!
Jen >> Happy Halloween, guys.

01:01:33.900 --> 01:01:35.833
I'm kind of worried because I think people are going to think

01:01:35.833 --> 01:01:37.766
we're really rich or something. My goodness!

01:01:37.766 --> 01:01:39.700
Grant >> Two bars.
Jen >> We're getting generous

01:01:39.700 --> 01:01:43.333
at this point in the night.
Children >> Thank you!

01:01:43.333 --> 01:01:45.633
Jen >> ...three, four.
One second, I've gotta get more.

01:01:45.633 --> 01:01:48.400
Boy >> Holy smoky nolly!

01:01:48.400 --> 01:01:51.900
They're handing out
full bars of chocolate!

01:01:51.900 --> 01:01:55.033
Girls >> Happy Halloween!
Jen >> You too!

01:01:55.033 --> 01:01:59.866
Music.

01:01:59.866 --> 01:02:03.233
Female >> It was okay,
but after all that build-up

01:02:03.233 --> 01:02:06.166
we're like "Oh, we ought to save the chocolate for Halloween"

01:02:06.166 --> 01:02:09.200
and we only got 19 kids.

01:02:09.200 --> 01:02:16.033
Music.

01:02:19.200 --> 01:02:21.133
Jen >> It's like the exact opposite of what you usually

01:02:21.133 --> 01:02:23.066
look for.
I'm usually looking

01:02:23.066 --> 01:02:26.200
for the newest stuff.

01:02:26.200 --> 01:02:29.066
I don't even usually
look at dates at all.

01:02:32.533 --> 01:02:34.533
Grant >> Oh, no, it's still good.

01:02:34.533 --> 01:02:36.533
This is all still good.

01:02:38.233 --> 01:02:40.533
No bread.

01:02:40.533 --> 01:02:42.966
Right, here we go.

01:02:42.966 --> 01:02:45.533
Do you have anything that's
close dated or any culls?

01:02:45.533 --> 01:02:47.466
Clerk >> No, we can't do that.
Grant >> You can't?

01:02:47.466 --> 01:02:49.400
Clerk >> No, it's a food health and safety issue.

01:02:49.400 --> 01:02:51.333
>> It's a safety,
and you can't...

01:02:51.333 --> 01:02:53.533
Do you guys donate it then or? You don't donate?

01:02:53.533 --> 01:02:56.000
Clerk >> No, it goes straight into the garbage can.

01:02:56.000 --> 01:02:57.933
Grant >> It goes straight
into the garbage.

01:02:57.933 --> 01:03:00.000
Clerk >> We do that because
we get too many lawsuits.

01:03:00.000 --> 01:03:02.566
Grant >> There's too many lawsuits? Have you guys been sued before?

01:03:02.566 --> 01:03:04.800
Clerk >> I don't know,
to tell you the truth but

01:03:04.800 --> 01:03:06.766
it's a health and safety issue.
If it's post dated,

01:03:06.766 --> 01:03:08.766
if it's with within two days, out the door it goes.

01:03:08.766 --> 01:03:10.700
Grant >> What about
any ugly vegetables?

01:03:10.700 --> 01:03:12.633
Clerk >> Ugly vegetables,
same thing.

01:03:12.633 --> 01:03:14.566
Culls are culls whatever.
Same thing.

01:03:14.566 --> 01:03:16.733
Tristram >> I don't know the
single instance where a company

01:03:16.733 --> 01:03:20.266
has been sued by somebody
who has been the recipient

01:03:20.266 --> 01:03:22.366
of free, donated food.

01:03:22.366 --> 01:03:26.766
So I think very often they're
using the fear of being sued

01:03:26.766 --> 01:03:28.866
to cover their shame.

01:03:28.866 --> 01:03:43.600
Music.

01:03:43.600 --> 01:03:47.133
Jonathan >> So in the U.S. anyone who wants to donate food

01:03:47.133 --> 01:03:50.733
can do so free of fear
for being sued.

01:03:50.733 --> 01:03:53.833
There's a federal shield law
called the Good Samaritan Act

01:03:53.833 --> 01:03:57.300
that protects people who give
food that they deem to be

01:03:57.300 --> 01:03:59.500
in good shape.

01:03:59.500 --> 01:04:09.066
Music.

01:04:09.066 --> 01:04:12.533
From my perspective it's
a completely unfounded fear.

01:04:12.533 --> 01:04:14.566
Tristram >> I think that companies are morally

01:04:14.566 --> 01:04:17.333
responsible for ensuring
that the food in their custody

01:04:17.333 --> 01:04:20.366
gets to people who need it
and doesn't end up in the bin.

01:04:20.366 --> 01:04:23.200
And we, the public,
have a responsibility

01:04:23.200 --> 01:04:25.833
to demand that that takes place.

01:04:42.033 --> 01:04:44.300
Jen >> I felt like I'd been reading about food waste

01:04:44.300 --> 01:04:47.700
but I hadn't actually been
doing anything about it.

01:04:47.700 --> 01:04:52.500
So I've been volunteering once a
week at the Quest grocery store.

01:04:56.833 --> 01:04:59.433
If you're low income or
you feel like you're in need

01:04:59.433 --> 01:05:01.600
you can apply to shop at Quest.

01:05:01.600 --> 01:05:05.333
And they stock the whole store
with donated food

01:05:05.333 --> 01:05:07.366
so they can sell it at
a really reasonable rate

01:05:07.366 --> 01:05:10.366
and it's a really good bridge
in between the food bank

01:05:10.366 --> 01:05:12.866
and the regular grocery store.

01:05:12.866 --> 01:05:16.266
It's great to see that there
are grocery stores that donate.

01:05:19.433 --> 01:05:21.433
I used to be a cashier.

01:05:21.433 --> 01:05:24.033
I really liked it actually.

01:05:24.033 --> 01:05:26.333
When I was in university
I was a cashier.

01:05:28.766 --> 01:05:30.700
No, it's good.
It's like a nice break.

01:05:30.700 --> 01:05:33.633
At my job job, I like sit
in front a computer, right.

01:05:33.633 --> 01:05:36.800
So it's a nice break to come here one afternoon a week

01:05:36.800 --> 01:05:39.266
and do something where
I get to like move around

01:05:39.266 --> 01:05:42.333
and move boxes and do something with my body, you know.

01:05:44.833 --> 01:05:49.133
Ken >> Quest saves roughly four
million dollars a year in food.

01:05:49.133 --> 01:05:51.066
We only have a little
peanut butter.

01:05:51.066 --> 01:05:53.733
[laughs]
Everywhere you look.

01:05:53.733 --> 01:05:55.666
My name is Ken March.

01:05:55.666 --> 01:05:58.333
I'm a warehouse
supervisor at Quest.

01:05:58.333 --> 01:06:01.166
Nobody can walk in off
the street and shop at Quest.

01:06:01.166 --> 01:06:04.633
You have to be designated
because the goal

01:06:04.633 --> 01:06:09.700
is to help those in need
and not those that have.

01:06:09.700 --> 01:06:13.000
What we've got is things like coconut milk, cranberry sauce,

01:06:13.000 --> 01:06:15.666
candy, chocolate, spritzers,

01:06:15.666 --> 01:06:18.266
tomato basil soup,
rice crackers,

01:06:18.266 --> 01:06:20.666
cereals, organic cereals,

01:06:20.666 --> 01:06:23.400
repack raisins,
risotto,

01:06:23.400 --> 01:06:26.133
butter beans,
sun dried tomatoes,

01:06:26.133 --> 01:06:28.100
peanut butter, peanut butter
and more peanut butter.

01:06:28.100 --> 01:06:31.400
If we didn't salvage this,
all of this food would either

01:06:31.400 --> 01:06:35.866
end up in the landfill
or be destroyed in some way.

01:06:36.933 --> 01:06:40.833
I've worked in the trucking, warehousing and packaging field

01:06:40.833 --> 01:06:43.500
for more than 30 years.

01:06:43.500 --> 01:06:46.600
You wouldn't want to know
how much product

01:06:46.600 --> 01:06:48.700
we would dispose of.

01:06:48.700 --> 01:06:52.100
Music.

01:06:52.100 --> 01:06:55.066
You imagine that there
are warehouses that are

01:06:55.066 --> 01:06:58.566
a million square feet
of food products.

01:07:01.000 --> 01:07:03.200
So something happens
to that product

01:07:03.200 --> 01:07:06.500
whether it would be dated, damaged or whatever,

01:07:06.500 --> 01:07:10.166
the easiest, most convenient thing to do with it is dump it.

01:07:10.166 --> 01:07:12.866
Music.

01:07:12.866 --> 01:07:16.866
And a large part of dumping
is simple economics.

01:07:16.866 --> 01:07:24.466
Music.

01:07:26.466 --> 01:07:29.400
Ken >> I really like
the concept of Quest.

01:07:29.400 --> 01:07:32.600
It's something I never
would have known.

01:07:32.600 --> 01:07:37.800
In all the years that I have
turfed goods out the door

01:07:37.800 --> 01:07:40.833
I wish I would have known.

01:07:40.833 --> 01:07:44.566
And that's a big thing, knowing
that you can get rid of stuff

01:07:44.566 --> 01:07:47.166
comfortably and
people can use it.

01:07:52.566 --> 01:07:56.266
Music.

01:07:56.266 --> 01:07:59.333
Tristram >> What we need is
to believe that wasting food

01:07:59.333 --> 01:08:01.466
is not acceptable.

01:08:01.466 --> 01:08:05.400
It comes down to citizen morals.

01:08:05.400 --> 01:08:08.133
It comes down to cultural
attitudes essentially.

01:08:08.133 --> 01:08:10.066
Dana >> There are all sorts
of changes we can make

01:08:10.066 --> 01:08:12.833
in our own personal lives
to just start chipping away

01:08:12.833 --> 01:08:14.766
at how much food we are wasting.

01:08:14.766 --> 01:08:16.900
First of all use
our freezers more.

01:08:16.900 --> 01:08:20.366
You can freeze almost anything
and it's a really great

01:08:20.366 --> 01:08:22.533
last minute thing to do
if you think you're not

01:08:22.533 --> 01:08:24.600
going to get around
to eating something.

01:08:24.600 --> 01:08:28.066
Jonathan >> If you're someone who likes to just shop once a week

01:08:28.066 --> 01:08:31.166
then it's really important
to plan out meals and make

01:08:31.166 --> 01:08:33.933
a detailed shopping list and then really stick to that list

01:08:33.933 --> 01:08:37.000
in the store, or it might
make sense to have smaller

01:08:37.000 --> 01:08:40.500
more frequent trips
and just buy what you need.

01:08:40.500 --> 01:08:43.800
Dana >> I think we can start
making dinner by thinking

01:08:43.800 --> 01:08:47.800
of what we have and less about
what we're in the mood for.

01:08:47.800 --> 01:08:50.900
Tristram >> It doesn't require
a complete revolution

01:08:50.900 --> 01:08:53.300
in terms of the way
we treat food.

01:08:53.300 --> 01:08:58.200
It's just tweaking it slightly
and usually in delicious ways.

01:08:58.200 --> 01:09:02.166
Music.

01:09:04.133 --> 01:09:07.133
Grant >> So we're having 20
or so friends over tonight

01:09:07.133 --> 01:09:09.166
to celebrate the end
of the project

01:09:09.166 --> 01:09:13.466
and everything on the menu
is rescued food.

01:09:15.566 --> 01:09:18.433
Jen >> I'm so excited
to be near the end

01:09:18.433 --> 01:09:21.400
and I bet we'll still eat
a lot of the same food.

01:09:21.400 --> 01:09:25.433
I think I'll still try to buy
food that's imperfect

01:09:25.433 --> 01:09:28.200
and look for those items
that I think the other people

01:09:28.200 --> 01:09:30.333
wouldn't buy.

01:09:30.333 --> 01:09:34.266
Honestly, the best part about
this project is that Grant

01:09:34.266 --> 01:09:36.633
took such an interest
in the kitchen.

01:09:36.633 --> 01:09:39.200
He used to look in the fridge and be like,

01:09:39.200 --> 01:09:42.066
"There's nothing to eat,
I'm going to go out for sushi,"

01:09:42.066 --> 01:09:45.033
and there'd still be tons
of food in there but it just

01:09:45.033 --> 01:09:47.600
had to be prepared and
he wasn't willing to do that.

01:09:47.600 --> 01:09:50.066
You're so happy.
Grant >> I made a crumble.

01:09:50.066 --> 01:09:52.866
I've never made
a crumble before.

01:09:52.866 --> 01:09:55.533
In the end, of everything that
I learned through this project,

01:09:55.533 --> 01:09:57.466
my new sense of value for food

01:09:57.466 --> 01:09:59.466
is what's going to stick
with me the most.

01:09:59.466 --> 01:10:02.166
Jen >> He actually even made
recently this little bin

01:10:02.166 --> 01:10:04.133
and it says "eat me first"
on it.

01:10:04.133 --> 01:10:07.100
We put all the food that's the
leftovers like the half onions

01:10:07.100 --> 01:10:09.833
and things that need to be
used first into that bin

01:10:09.833 --> 01:10:12.866
and then he'll go there first and make a lunch out of that.

01:10:12.866 --> 01:10:23.133
Music.

01:10:23.133 --> 01:10:26.233
[mingled voices]

01:10:26.233 --> 01:10:31.733
Music.

01:10:31.733 --> 01:10:33.666
[clinks on glass]

01:10:33.666 --> 01:10:37.766
Grant >> Thank you for coming
and helping us finish off

01:10:37.766 --> 01:10:40.266
all this food that
we needed to get rid of.

01:10:40.266 --> 01:10:43.466
[laughter]
And I guess this is the end.

01:10:43.466 --> 01:10:45.400
Guest >> To Grant, Jenny,
and dumpsters!

01:10:45.400 --> 01:10:47.566
[cheers, applause]

01:10:47.566 --> 01:10:49.833
Music.

01:10:49.833 --> 01:10:53.133
Grant >> I definitely won't miss
having to go in search of food.

01:10:53.133 --> 01:10:55.100
That's going to be great.

01:10:55.100 --> 01:10:58.633
But I'm probably going to still
have a peek from time to time.

01:10:58.633 --> 01:11:01.000
I mean how can you not?

01:11:01.000 --> 01:11:12.133
Music.

01:11:12.133 --> 01:11:26.133
Music.

01:11:26.133 --> 01:11:30.500
Music.

01:11:30.500 --> 01:11:32.833
Dana >> Just by being
aware of it, you almost

01:11:32.833 --> 01:11:34.800
automatically make a difference because you can't help it

01:11:34.800 --> 01:11:36.800
because all of a sudden
you start to see it

01:11:36.800 --> 01:11:38.866
everywhere you go.

01:11:38.866 --> 01:11:41.000
Food waste we can handle.

01:11:41.000 --> 01:11:42.966
You know, it's something we can
actually do something about,

01:11:42.966 --> 01:11:44.933
we can do something
about it now.