GLEANING-Skipping-Dumpster Diving-Freeganism = Food Rescue

“And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the
corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning
of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the
stranger.” Leviticus xxiii

Waste occurs on the farm, in stores, restaurants and also at home. Studies estimate that 40 percent or more of all cultivated food is never eaten.

Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested or on
fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest. Some ancient cultures promoted gleaning as an early form of a welfare system.

In the modern world, gleaning is practiced by humanitarian groups which distribute the gleaned food to the poor and the hungry. This can include the collection of food from supermarkets and bakeries at eh end of the day that would otherwise be toss into the garbage.

Dumpster diving (known as"skipping"in the UK) is the practice of sifting through commercial or residential trash to find items that have been discarded by their owners, but which may be useful to the dumpster diver.

Freeganism is an anti-consumerist lifestyle whereby people employ alternative living strategies based on "limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources".

Freegans "embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, conformity, and greed."

Freegans salvage the food for political reasons, rather than
out of need.

The movement also has elements of Diggers, an anarchist street theater group based in Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco in the 1960s, that gave away rescued food.

Americans waste more than 40 percent of the food produced for consumption, which comes at an annual cost of at least $100 billion. Meanwhile, more than one-tenth of Americans do not have enough to eat.

Wasted food

http://www.wastedfood.com/

Dumpster Diving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSlDzu13ytI&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VlFJsuBjA0

Dumpster Diving in New Zealand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZlYDX3t2ss&feature=related

How to be a freegan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO5wMxS1LJk&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB56aGTgfVE&feature=fvw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcZYQqsgpSQ&feature=fvw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAS-AzbNCkA&feature=fvw