Friday Buffet
August 1st, 2008 by Jonathan
Because seeing is believing: Here’s the booty from a dumpster diving expedition that shows how much good food grocery stores throw out.
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Don’t waste that pigeon squab?!?
UPDATE: I noticed that Berkeley’s famed Chez Panisse is featuring squab on August 9th.
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has proposed fines to ensure San Franciscans keep their food waste and other recycling streams separate.
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Downsizing your ‘food print‘ includes wasting less food. I’d prefer the term ‘carbon food print,’ but either way, it’s a nice piece.
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UPDATE: Yesterday I wrote about how Bennigan’s declared bankruptcy and is closing all of its restaurants. One Florida Bennigan’s announced it will donate its remaining food to an after-school program for at-risk teenage boys. Hopefully other Bennigan’s will follow suit.
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Not really food waste, but waste-related and cool: Check out this tip-of-the-iceberg Swiss trash can. The sideways video is annoying, but it’s worth sticking around until at least the 35 second mark.
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The racket, the wasted fuel . . . kill me now.
Yeah, I love it. Newsom shelters illegal aliens who have been arrested for other crimes who then commit murder. But yet, he’ll send someone to go through your trash to make sure you aren’t wasting food. Nice. At a press conference, he said they won’t enforce the fine, so what is the point?
wait… so, is this pic of the dumpster food you got actually GOOD food… It looks fine… is it food that is only a few days past expiration or seriously UNEXPIRED food…? What if its food that has sat out in the sun so they throw it away to be safe? Or produce that has been splattered with cleaning chemicals and you’d never even know… We had to throw stuff like that away in a restaurant because we could get seriously sued if someone got sick and they found us to be the negligent ones.
If you got sick, you’d be out of luck.
I want to know how good this food really is… we used to go dumpster diving behind this bakery cuz it was company policy to throw out the days bread… we’d find gads of good loaves and buns and pastries, but we knew (cuz a friend worked there) that the bread wasn’t contaminated it was just “day old.”
How can you be so sure of eating this stuff?
Rose,
I agree that it’s a bad idea to announce a toothless fine.
Corinne,
That’s not me in the picture and I didn’t (and don’t) go out dumpster diving. I just came across this photo on Flickr. “Freegans” definitely take some risks, but they’re usually pretty good at knowing what they should and shouldn’t eat. But don’t take my word for it, ask a freegan at www.freegan.info