so many feel like it happens far away and you don t know how to affect change. we do. we eat food, think about food, enjoy food. we have tremendous control about what food comes to our community. just food worked specifically in new york city, but there are areas where even if they have a grocery store, the food is not good, and what s abundant and cheap is not healthy and nutritious and the food is rotting on the shelves. and so the complaints that we hear from the community are i don t want this. i know that i know what s good for me and i want to make chan changes. who wants their food to be a vegetable if it s rotting on the supermarket shelves. especially if you have a limited food budget. you see that food rot on the counter before you can eat it, that s a terrible thing. people are taking control of their food system. it s happening across the country, where people are
eatocracy, mind, body and wait. wasted food, whether thrown in the dumpster or not, big restaurant portions like spaghetti that you see or good fruit laying on the ground, look at all that stuff, it was good before it hit the dumpster, a lot of it someone could have used it, a lot of people need it freelance journalist john than bloom stays is unnecessary and unethical. i want to tell you he wrote the book called american wasteland from firsthand experience here and he joins us now from raleigh, north carolina. hey, jonathan, thanks for joining us. how did you come one this idea and why did you do it? i grew up appreciating food. and my parents taught me to both enjoy food as something that tastes great and also to value it. so, if you were to look into the refrigerator at my household when i grew up there were leftovers of all shapes and sizes. then later on, i was volunteering in a place called d.c. central kitchen and that is a food recovery organization and what they do is they