Winner of numerous awards, “Just Eat It” follows Canadian filmmakers Grant Baldwin and Jen Rustemeyer over a six-month period, as they conduct an experiment to eat only discarded food. The film also features interviews with environmentalists, food-waste experts and farmers, who highlight the extent of the problem and solutions. Panelists will discuss food-waste reduction strategies at home by cooking more with less, recycling uneaten food scraps, changing habits and will field questions from the community.
This event addresses the need for a cultural shift about the appearance of food, meat consumption, purchasing habits and expiration dates and what individuals can do to reduce food waste, one of the heaviest and most expensive types of disposed trash. In the U.S., 40% of food never gets eaten, wasting all the resources from field to fork like water, energy, labor and cropland. Each year the average American family throws away 1,000 pounds of food, equating to at least a $1,500 lost. All this is wasted, while one in eight Americans is food insecure.
“Consumers are responsible for more wasted food than grocery stores and restaurants combined, so changing household behavior is key to reducing the problem of food waste,” according to Save the Food.
For registration and further information about the Just Eat It event and Save the Food Challenge, visit Love Your Food NY”™s Elizabeth Radow, A Pinch of Salt Chef Raquel Rivera and Waste Free Greenwich founder Julie DesChamps.
