The last time I groused about how food fights are dispicable, many of you told me to lighten up. Well, I’ve found a variation on the “activity” that makes me much less cranky:Â Food Fights Against Food Waste!
This event, undertaken in Wales by these do-gooders, used food recovered from a dumpster. The practitioners aimed to bring attention to the problem of food waste (they blogged about it here). Interesting.
Now–you may be thinking, ‘why don’t they try to put some of that food to use?’ Then again, you might be of the opinion that the awareness the fight brings to waste is supercedes trying to put that food to use.
I think that the images of food as projectiles tends to be harmful–it devalues food. But…this is one kind of food fight that I can half-heartedly get behind. What do you make of this whole thing?
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3 responses to “Food Fight! (for a good cause)”
I don’t think they should have put the food to good use, because it says on that video that it came from the bin, so it’s already been wasted by supermarkets, it’s effectively dirty so it may as well be used to make a point rather than go striaght to landfil.
Bo!
I see your point. But to play devil’s advocate–there are many people who eat food from dumpsters.
Bo?
…the wasted food, or dumpster food should go to local farmers to be used for compost…”get food waste back to the land not the landfill”
-dietetic intern