Food Too "Ugly" to Sell Becomes a Feast for 5,000 People | National Geographic

2m read

·Nov 11, 2024

Feeding the 5,000 is a celebration of the solutions to food waste, where we feed 5,000 people a delicious meal made entirely out of food that would otherwise have gone to waste. America is a country which has a massive problem of food waste. Forty percent of the food isn't consumed. A huge amount of perfectly good food is being wasted all the way up and down the supply chain.

You start on the farms, you go to manufacturers, wholesalers, restaurants, and of course in our homes. Food has been rejected because it's too ugly, the wrong shape or size. So these cauliflowers, for example, perfectly delicious and edible, they've just got a few blemishes and the wholesalers weren't able to sell them. And we go in, we intervene, we say don't chuck that away, give it to us.

We're going to cook it up for 5,000 people. We had 800 lbs of just the sweet potatoes today, and that's just the beginning. We have hundreds and hundreds of pounds of food that would otherwise have gone to waste that we're putting to good use. We've got teams of four to six chopping vegetables around big round tables while they listen to the music and enjoy the day.

So right now, we are putting the finishing touches on the 5,000 meals of vegetable curry that we've started preparing yesterday and we'll be serving to the community today. It's up to us, the citizens of this country, of this world, to say we're fed up with food waste and it's time to take food waste off the table.

Some people call them Franken fish. Some people think that they look like a snake, that they're ugly.

Warren Buffett: How ANYONE Can Become Rich (5 Steps)

The Making of 'Genius' | National Geographic

View All

Introduction to one-dimensional motion with calculus | AP Calculus AB | Khan Academy

What we’re going to do in this video is start to think about how we describe position in one dimension as a function of time. So we could say our position, and we’re going to think about position on the x-axis as a function of time. We could define it by…

The Strangest Secret By Earl Nightingale

I’d like to tell you about The Strangest Secret in the world. Not long ago, Albert Schweitzer, the great doctor and Nobel Prize winner, was being interviewed in London. A reporter asked him, “Doctor, what’s wrong with men today?” The great doctor was sile…

There's an Art to Getting Brilliant People to Surprise Themselves - Kevin Slavin of The Shed

I had a there were a couple questions from the internet, but I figured we could just start with kind of what we were talking about before about education in general. Sure. So, as you’re a dad now and you’re thinking about education, having now, you know, …

Continental Drift 101 | National Geographic

Talk about the ultimate breakup. Europe and Africa have been splitting apart from the American continents for millions of years at a rate of approximately 2.5 cm per year. The continents are moving about as fast as our fingernails grow. As they continue t…

Limits of combined functions: piecewise functions | AP Calculus AB | Khan Academy

We are asked to find these three different limits. I encourage you, like always, to pause this video and try to do it yourself before we do it together. So when you do this first one, you might just try to find the limit as x approaches negative 2 of f o…

Miyamoto Musashi | The Path of the Loner

At the age of fifteen, Miyamoto Musashi went on ‘musha shugyō’, which means ‘warrior’s pilgrimage’. During this time of his life, he traveled the land practicing his skills independently and engaged in a series of duels. After he received ronin status, he…

Food Too "Ugly" to Sell Becomes a Feast for 5,000 People | National Geographic

More Articles