{"id":15268,"date":"2013-01-07T09:23:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T15:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=15268"},"modified":"2013-01-07T09:23:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T15:23:02","slug":"from-trash-to-table-austrian-activists-launch-freegan-cooking-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/from-trash-to-table-austrian-activists-launch-freegan-cooking-show\/","title":{"rendered":"From Trash to Table: Austrian Activists Launch Freegan Cooking Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Forty percent of our food gets wasted<\/a>. That’s a pretty shocking statistic that represents (as we’ve pointed out many times before) broader waste of energy, water, soil fertility, etc. Dumpster diving<\/a> has become a kind of hip response to this waste of perfectly good food, and now a group of Austrian activists have taken “freeganism” to the next logical step: they’ve created a cooking show for food “rescued” from grocery and restaurant dumpsters.<\/p>\n

Started last Spring, Waste Cooking<\/em><\/a> follows food from dumpster to dinner table. Part Food Network, part Greenpeace-style activism, each episode of the show (which is in German) follows the process of finding ingredients (complete with rubber gloves and headlamps), and then making a meal out of the found food. The meal isn’t just shared by the participants in the process, though: they set up an outdoor kitchen where the food is shared with passers-by. This last part creates opportunities for engagement: the Waste Cooking team does let people know that they’re “eating trash” (often after they’ve taken their first bite, of course), and then offers a bit of education on the amount of food that gets wasted in developed countries. Take a look at the short film version they’ve put together (which has English subtitles):<\/p>\n