While I was meeting with the woman who runs the Love Food, Hate Waste (LFHW) site in England, the dining services folks at UC Davis used that very slogan as the title for their report/how-to-manual/call to action. Good for them!
“Love Food, Hate Waste” is really worth browsing through, as it has a little bit of everything. And if you’re a school administrator, dining director or sustainability coordinator, I’d recommend thinking about using that document as a guide.
Speaking of my meeting in Banbury, England at the offices of WRAP (who run LFHW), I asked, but they wouldn’t tell me any other possible names for the site. Apparently, it was suggested early on in the process, then they never found anything else that 
captured the message quite so well.
Love Food, Hate Waste really does say it all, as illustrated by Davis dining services’ borrowing it.
Another thing I learned is that WRAP found the “food lovers” who appear on their home page and resemble food items (potatoes, apples, pasta) by having a casting company put out calls for specific looks. So: ‘We need a guy who looks like a potato.’ And they sure got one! (and I’m told that the stout dude pictured here is on TV in Britain…)
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It must be very interesting to be seeing the food waste issue from a slightly different cultural perspective. I look forward to reading more about your trip.
I would say, “don’t do anything I wouldn’t do,” but in this case it’s more appropriate to say, “don’t eat anything I wouldn’t eat.”
Have fun!
Katy Wolk-Stanley
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.”
Pasta? Who looks like pasta? 😉
The worst wasted food ad on tv probably isn’t being shown in England. Glad Forceflex bags have two children judging garbage bags into which their parents are flinging totally uneaten meatloaf dinners. This is shown as cute and charming. We’ve written to Glad saying we disapprove of this sort of ad. It’s an abomination at a time that food pantries are running low and millions of Americans are on food stamps.
“Hate” is not strong enough a word. I would pile on adverbs to make my point. (I also find it very hard to be friends with people who waste things…)
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