This book was given to me by a friend and I wish I had hundreds of copies that I could pass around. I LOVED this book. It fits into my whole new thought process and life journey.
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This book though, oh my! I know that food waste was a part of my household growing up and I never thought too much about it other then when I hated the meal and my adoptive parents would say "there are starving kids in Africa" and I would think sullenly "fine ill ship it to them."
Reading this book was a huge eye opener to the extent of waste throughout the whole system before the food even reaches my trash can. I would think every now and then as I saw a bruised apple get passed up over and over again what happened to it at the end of the night but quickly was always distracted by the smell of the bakery or the meat counter that was close by. In my youth I even worked in a grocery store and saw how poorly food was handled. That stint though was short lived and I never saw the full impact of what happened to food in the grocery store. This book though clearly outlines the demise of perfectly edible food. What shocked me more then the grocery store "culling" the food was that it went into the trash cans and ruined (with bleach) or locked up so people could not eat it for free, even if it was still edible. Or that these stores just toss it in the first place instead of donating to the food banks that are always in need of meat, milk and produce especially.
As I start my journey to "be the change I wish to see" (Gandhi) this book was able to open my eyes to all the problems food is faced with and maybe ways I can share with others that are looking to get healthy and change the world, even if it is their little world.
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