Food Not Bombs

On September 13, 2007 my class was fortunate to have David Giles come to my class to talk about his involvement with Food Not Bombs. He is a student in anthropology that has received his Ph.D and is a local food activist. David was nice enough to go dumpster diving for orange juice to show the class how much food society wastes. I have never thought about companies throwing out food before David came to my class and explained all of the rules and regulations that stores have to follow because of due dates. It makes sense that a store would have to throw out products because of its due dates but these companies are throwing out foods before the date that it goes bad. These foods that are found in these dumpsters are still healthy and safe to eat.

David gave me a lot of inspiration because by him just dumpster diving he is saving his own money and he is not wasting food. Today in third world countries people are dying because they do not have enough food and in America we are just throwing it away. David has made me want to become more active as a food activist and he showed me that if you do not stand up for what you believe in then nothing will show for it. I think that Food Not Bombs is a great organization and I only hope that it gets bigger and more nationally recognized so we can save food and money.