Sunday, January 26, 2014
Dive in!
One of the films I watched was Dive by Jeremy Seifert. When I first saw this film written on the board in class I wasn't sure what it was about, but after watching the first ten seconds of it I knew when I was diving into. Dive is about a second chance for food. Did you know that we throw away 96 billion pounds of food a year? By trowing away all this food it just adds to our
landfills. I never knew dumpster diving could be so competitive that it had three rules: 1. The first one to the dumpster has first dibs. 2. Never take more than you need. 3. Leave it cleaner than you found it.
One man from this film pulled out a dozen eggs that had been thrown away just because one was cracked. Throwing eleven eggs away just because one is cracked is ridiculous I don't care who you are! This film also focuses on a family who literally almost gets all their food from the dumpster. The mom is pregnant and having a baby shower and all the meat for the shower is from the dumpster. She says that all of her friends know that they get all of their food from the dumpster and that they seem to be okay with it. I don't think I could ever eat a meal that was out of the dumpster, but that is because of the lifestyle that I have been blessed with. I am fortunate that I don't have to worry about whether I will have something to eat for dinner tonight or the next day. However, like the films discusses, a large percent of the food throw
n away is still very edible. 854 Million people go hungry in the world, but yet the US throws away 96 billion pounds of food THAT'S MESSED UP! DON'T WASTE FOOD!
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After everything we've discussed in class, I didn't even think about this! It sounds like an interesting documentary. It is ridiculous how much food is wasted
ReplyDeleteI would love to see this film. What an interesting idea. While I can easily see taking and eating food that someone has just discarded - like if I saw them approaching the dumpster with the intent to throw it in and intercepted them - I'm not sure how hungry I would have to be to start sifting through the contents of the dumpster and trying to determine whether or not they'd be likely to make me seriously ill! The eggs, for instance, seem a little scary. If I knew they'd just then entered the dumpster, that would be one thing. But what if they'd been sitting there for a couple of days? Of course the refrigeration of eggs is apparently not all that necessary. In the UK, eggs are never refrigerated in the grocery store. They are just all lined up on the shelves along with the bread and all the other dry goods. Our ideas about food safety - many of them anyway - are probably pretty prima donna-like.
ReplyDeleteAfter I read this I went and grabbed my leftovers in my fridge and had them for dinner, instead of throwing them out like I had originally planned. Very eye opening.
ReplyDeleteI think we can all take a lesson away from a movie like this one. The amount of food and such that is wasted in America is getting a little out of hand, especially when there are people around the world struggling to find food. I was raised to never take more than I needed at the dinner table for example... Reading up on the staggering numbers based upon the wasted food has raised my awareness towards the subject.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of that show, "Extreme Cheapskates." I'm disgusted by the thought of eating something from the dumpster because you never know what you might find, but I'm also disgusted by how much food is wasted in America! I talked about this a little bit in my last blog post about Walmart because they throw away a lot of produce, but this takes it to a whole new level!
ReplyDeleteI knew that we wasted food, i just didn't realize it was 96 BILLION pounds of it! That is insane to me. It reminds me of the classic mom line "Eat your food, there are starving kids in Africa". There are so many other things we could do with leftover or unwanted food that it blows my mind that so much gets wasted.
ReplyDeleteTHIS IS INSANE! I would love to see this documentary. Reading this gets me thinking of how much food I waste on a daily basis...I try not to waste food so I am going to try harder not too.
ReplyDeleteThat is unbelievable that we throw away that much food! I could never imagine going dumpster diving for my meal for that evening or for the rest of the week! I do however agree with you, you do not throw away a entire carton of eggs just because one is cracked!
ReplyDelete96 billion pounds of food a year! Thats so much food. I hate wasting food. It makes me feel bad. But I never knew it was that much food.
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