Consider this: Before food reaches your table, it is produced and handled by farmers, co-ops, manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers. Some perfectly edible food is discarded for a variety of business reasons at every step. In the average city, approximately 10% of all solid waste is food. This is an incredible total of 46 billion pounds nationally per year, or just under 200 pounds per person per year. Estimates indicate that only 4 billion pounds of food per year would be required to completely end hunger in America. Clearly there is an abundance of edible, recoverable food being thrown away.
-From the Food Not Bombs Handbook
We are a group of students working to organize servings in our region (Kingston and/or Hudson, NY). We reclaim food which would ordinarily go to waste and use it to make vegetarian meals, which we then serve to the community. We do this because this because we believe that food is a right, not a privilege. No one should starve in a world in which enough food is produced for everyone to eat. We want a society where people make free food for each other all the time, just because they can...
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