Grocery stores around the country are filling their dumpsters with food. Not rotten, spoiled food, but billions of pounds of good, edible food.
Why? Because the expiration date is nearing? Because it costs less to simply throw away excess food rather than do something helpful with it?
Whatever the answer, the contradiction is profound: good, edible food is being thrown away in the very same communities where people are going hungry.
Follow filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and his circle of friends as they "dumpster dive" in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of L.A.'s supermarkets. In the process, they uncover thousands of dollars worth of good food and an ugly truth about waste in America: grocery stores know they are wasting and most refuse to do anything about it.
DIVE!
a film by Jeremy Seifert divethefilm.com
music by Timothy Vatterott timothyvatterott.com
5 Comments
quantumushroomI could be wrong, but foods' expiration dates aren't the assumed date the food spoils, they are the last day supermarkets can legally sell it.
The simplest answer as to why it's all thrown out is lawsuits. There are certain people called "lawyers", just ITCHING to sue a grocery chain that gave food away to a homeless shelter and some bum got sick from eating a brown banana.
SagemindLawyers are truly at the bottom of the scum encrusted gene pool.
(well, maybe not all of them - but the world would be a way different place without them!)
BoneRemakeHIppies piss me off.
These hippies not so much. but for fuck sakes, cut your hair and shave ya flippin love wrangler.
AdrianBlackDon't be such a square, daddy-o, here have a stalk of only slightly dirty celery and be groovy.
>> ^BoneRemake:
HIppies piss me off.
These hippies not so much. but for fuck sakes, cut your hair and shave ya flippin love wrangler.
rottenseedHipsters think that shopping at grocery stores is too "mainstream"
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