Your Food Is Lying To You
ADDENDUM: Not ALL foods go sour - certain types of food poisoning come from mold, clostridium, and viruses which are not always detectable by smell.
Special thanks to Nicole Civita (https://www.plenty-enough.com/), Dana Gunders ( / dgunders ), & Yasmin Tayag ( / yeahyeahyasmin ) for their generous support and positively helpful knowledge of food waste in the USA. Links to the research above, but also they each get their own personal link. Click it!
And another special thanks to the Big Reuse for letting us film at their composting sites, right here in Brooklyn. If you want to get involved/volunteer with them, check out their Instagram / bigreuse .
Waste Free Kitchen Handbook by Dana Gunders: https://www.nrdc.org/press-releases/n...
Changing Stuff in the Food System: Feeding Each Other: Shaping Change in Food Systems Through Relationship (www.feedingeachotherbook.com) PREORDER HERE: https://www.amazon.com/dp/180341488X
Check out this great food waste advocacy tool from Climate Changemakers! https://www.climatechangemakers.org/f...
Date Labeling Thinking: The Dating Gam [PDF] (NRDC/Harvard, 2013): https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/fi...
Date Labels: The case for Federal Legislation [PDF]: https://chlpi.org/wp-content/uploads/...
ReFED - Date Labeling Regulations https://policyfinder.refed.org/spotli...
ReFED - Food Date Labeling Act (2021-22 Congress) https://policyfinder.refed.org/federa...
Composting Programs: US Composting Council: https://www.compostingcouncil.org/
CalRecycle Community-scale Composting: https://calrecycle.ca.gov/organics/co...
Sources & Citations
[0:44] The Dating Game (NRDC/Harvard, 2013)
[1:12]
FDA: Letter to the Food Industry Regarding Food Waste, 2019
[2:00] EPA: 2018 Wasted Food Report (2020)
[2:12] Stanford: Methane and climate change (2021)
[2:21] ReFED: Roadmap to 2030: Reducing US Food Waste by 50% and the ReFED Insights Engine (2021)
[2:25] Worldometer: GDP by Country
[4:56] NPR: How A 19th Century Chemist Took On The Food Industry With A Grisly Experiment (2018)
[5:30] Newspapers.com: The Topeka Daily Capital clipping (1903)
[5:50] PBS: Dr. Harvey Wiley: Father of Pure Food
[8:23] GAO: Food Labeling: Goals, Shortcomings, and Proposed Changes (1975)
[8:50] OTA: Open Shelf-Life Dating of Food (1979)
[10:36] EXPIRED: Food Waste in America (2016)
[11:46] Harvard Magazine: The Food Waste Problem (2021)
[12:29] Just Eat It: a Food Waste Story (2014)
[14:46] Montana Secretary of State: TIME FROM PROCESSING THAT FLUID MILK MAY BE SOLD FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION
[15:29] Montana First Judicial District Court (2012)
[16:09] ABC News: Congressional Candidate Shoots Down Drone in Ad (2014)
[17:29] Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act (1996)
[17:41] USDA: FAQ about the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act
[19:26] Feeding America: The Impact of the Coronavirus on Food Insecurity (2021)
[23:10] The Guardian: South Korea has almost zero food waste. Here’s what the US can learn (2022)
Episode Credits
Executive Producers: Rollie Williams & Ben Boult & Matt Nelsen
Writers: Rollie Williams & Matt Nelsen, with help from Ben Boult
Editor: Rollie Williams
Cinematographers: Matt Nelsen & Ben Boult
Assistant Editor: Xola Thompson
Animator: Ian MK Cessna (https://ianhasawebsite.com/)
Theme music by Gratis
Special thanks to Harry Tannenbaum and the Mill team
Special Thanks to CLDC for their support
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