I don’t know why you came here today
what motivated you to be in this
Fletcher theater but the reason I am
here is because around three years ago I
was in a local supermarket in fact
accelerated and I saw some bananas
there is shiny yellow bananas and I was
talking to the store manager from the
supermarket and I saw these bananas
being put into a supermarket we just
wheeled away so I said to him he said to
me well there’s newer shinier bananas
coming in so they’re basically for the
dustbin and I was quite shocked
I said lovely yellow shiny bananas what
would happen to them and he said no way
that’s possible said what happens is
even sometimes they can be cut up and
sliced up to make sure they don’t go to
somebody but I was really involved I
mean I can understand that you don’t
always want staff to take the product
owner because obviously people can end
up mishandling and doing things
deliberately but there’s absolutely no
excuse with fearing those bananas away
because there’s so many people in
Malaysia and around the world that need
those sorts of things so that’s what I
thought something has to change it so
I’d like to actually stop because for me
in terms of sustainability in the thin
waist I actually think the biggest
problem out of everything is us
knowledge so I’m going to ask anybody to
stand up I’m gonna ask you four
questions okay it’s very simple if you
think the answer is a or to stick with
the left hand if you think the answer is
B or top your right hands and you think
the answer is C put up both hands to get
the answer right hooray congratulations
keep standing if you get it wrong I’d
like you to quickly sit down so question
one there are 800 million people in the
world somewhere between hunger and
starvation death surface food we call it
loss food it’s thrown away every day if
we could use this food to feed these
people how many of these people could we
feed if you think the answer is about
half of them at your left hand if you
think we could feed all the hungry
people in the whole world
drop your right hand or if you think we
could feed all of them times four stick
up their pants so let’s do high in the
air okay and you can stay standing if
you said see both hands in the air
everyone else left hand right hand sit
down please sit down you’ve got it wrong
okay
right next question is how often not
human being but just a child how often
is a child died from hunger somewhere in
the world but just purely of hunger if
you think the child is dying every five
seconds your left hands if you think the
child is dying every minute drop your
right hands and if you think the child
is dying every single
okay you can stay standing if you sadly
said every five seconds now if some
people say it’s raining some people say
it’s five seconds some people say it’s
ten seconds but whatever is it’s a lot
next question I don’t know who like Byrd
ex Isle of boiled eggs so I mean it’s
question so how long do you think a
boiled egg can be safely eaten I how
long can it last and fridge and still be
good to eat if you think it’s one day
for the left hand if you think it’s
three days put up your right hands if
you think it’s an entire week put up
their ass behind the air and you can
stay standing if you said okay this is
the last question I think okay the use
by date in the food is very important
it’s usually meat seafood dairy products
that you really have to be careful
because you can get sick however the
best before date is actually just an
indication of the quality of the product
and when it begins to deteriorate so
often if like sometimes there’s tiny bit
different but it doesn’t really matter
in terms so which of the following
products does not need the best before
dates if you think it’s like sugar left
hand do you think it’s vinegar
throughout the right hand what if you
think it’s cooking oil good at both
hands so higher yet okay you people have
got this wrong you’re gonna right you
can stay standing if you said vinegar to
me everyone else it
now if you look around the theater you
will see that actually there’s not that
many of us standing like really and if I
put another couple of questions I’m sure
I could get a few more and examine and
victims just an illustration of afforded
us all of us really don’t know about
food anymore maybe fifty years ago or
hundred years ago but nowadays we would
like fast food and you just just forget
what food is all about so I mean it’s
for me it’s very funny because one of
the things I love most about living in
Malaysia is the love of food how people
connect with food they celebrate with
food for me coming from England
originally you know the English talk
about the weather constantly where is in
Malaysia its food it’s you like
international sport and yeah when you
look at this today a lot of food waste
in general isn’t it amazing how little
we know about something we love so I
think you know and I think about the
arguments I hear about where the best of
nasi lemak draw in the best laughter or
it really is such a contradiction little
thing so anyway I’m going to tell you
about my journey I actually started my
eyes were opened to the secret world of
diploid green waste around about 20
years ago just over 20 years ago
I was waitressing in a restaurant with
parents in Cape Town
and like most restaurants many many
restaurants we were throwing away bins
of great food every single day and we
have kitchen staff through from the
townships who didn’t have very much
money on a very basic wage and they were
busted and it was just incredible
because at the end of the day there was
so much glorious beautiful food we had
prime mistakes we have pristine salads
we had perfect portions of puddings but
what happened to them
splat into the landfill they would go it
was very very eye-opening and of course
again the staff said cannot give to the
employers it cannot give to the staff so
all this is going to be able to receive
it so I eventually returned to the UK
after living in Africa and funnily
enough I have two friends that will work
in food banks one of them Robin I used
to work at BBC where he took me to the
oxygen food bank and I definitely
remember going in and just seeing them
past expensive food everywhere
it was shocking I have to say I looked
around and ask why the supermarkets
giving
to you and you said it’s because it’s
cheaper for them to give it to me than
it is for them to dispose them and then
I sort of have another good friend
called Lindsay who works fair share
which is one of the bigger food banks in
the UK and Lindsay used to actually live
in Borneo himself so he’s got a very
strong connection with Malaysia and I
think partly because of this he’s been
absolutely instrumental in helping us
set up your food projects here in
Malaysia so this is a tiny portion of
warehouse its aisles and aisles and
aisles and it’s what we use and rooms of
fridges and freezers and as I say
there’s 21 different demos the location
alert and this isn’t even the biggest
food bank you know that’s 21 so two
thousand other food banks in the UK and
millions of people and using these food
banks every single day and it’s not just
in UK it’s every single country in
Newark Spain it’s the Germany France you
look at North America everywhere has all
these food banks so hopefully we’ll
start this here in Malaysia too because
there’s only a couple of many that are
going and yet there’s so much food here
why is that because in this region of
the world it’s so cheap relatively the
land and labour and so many the the big
multinational companies and producing
food here and then disposing all this
and after me is such an irony because in
this region of the world countries like
Indonesia and Philippines Cambodia etc
there’s so many people that could
benefit from this food that’s been
thrown away so I’m going to now show you
some reasons why food is thrown away and
please don’t get offended because I can
tell you this happens every day this
this all this predicted by us what’s
wrong with it vegetables okay just
[Music]
[Applause]
so you see the reasons you know ugly
vegetables expiry dates you know they
expire it could be a few weeks or a few
months whoever shops don’t like to store
things only have six months factories
cancel orders but then they still have
to produce them so that goes straight in
the bin if the labeling is ruined made
me a halal sticker it’s like in the
wrong shape import paperwork I think we
spend hours talking to about the reasons
but you get the general picture the
other thing is it’s so like to introduce
our truck this isn’t one of the two
trucks in the spoon project has it’s a
five-ton truck and it’s yeah we take all
our food and I like to just tell you
more about that we convey about the
waste let’s continue to have it and all
the costs that you know companies are
spending and throwing this food because
it’s a lot of money because 30 percent
of all food
way but we absorb because the consumer
you and I are paying for all this food
to be very way in this cycle does not
stop spinning in Malaysia alone three
thousand tons of food every single day
is thrown away
that’s far to around ten million meals
and if you look at our truck I love each
truck when we spit it up any time I’ve
finished up seventeen thousand meals on
waste of food and this watch Rock of
ours if you compare that to Malaysia
that’s six hundred trucks five times the
big trucks you see in the road every
single day if you like maths if you
break that down that’s 25 trucks a day
that equates to 8,000 meals every single
minute are being thrown away here in
Malaysia okay 8,000 meals and that’s a
conservative estimate
this isn’t including the food that is at
the back of a fridge or throwing away
because we’ve finished our meals and
restaurants or at home it’s huge its
massive it’s it’s just incredible so and
it doesn’t need to happen that’s the key
thing here you know 32,000 meals every
minute we’re throwing away there’s a lot
of people that need that food so there’s
very very real need to agree to that and
this is what an alternative is this is
our warehouse this is some of the food
and you can see how lovely that the rats
and the greens are and this is normally
like this in the bed there’s just a tip
of the iceberg and I’m sure you will
know you don’t have to look very far in
all our lives and find food waste this
that’s not a real food here but then
this does not need to happen because
there is a very neat and local solution
should we be feeding these people or we
should really leave this you know that
is the reality it’s it’s not very hard
to but how to change this the way needs
to change here now in villages
volunteers like us because government
and industry cannot do this on their own
they need somebody to lead them to take
from them and we need to show them what
the benefits can be for them and all the
benefits our society and I’d like to use
myself as an example of how random ideas
or movements can happen because my
journey I never wanted to be a food
challenge as well in fact I wanted to do
something very different
I wanted to yes
I wanted to work as a as a journalist I
would I did work at BBC news for a long
time and it was great
sadly like a lot of women I had to stop
because I had family and had to pull out
my husband but lucky for me I came to
Malaysia in 2014 and I work with
volunteer I worked with refugees and I
got to see the desperate need many had
food and I also got to see myself
through the impact food waste has been
the environment or the deforestation is
taking away forests planting food that
we still throw away of didn’t even eat
and what I experienced myself as the
haze having to wear a face mask our kids
are not going to
having to take pop with those because
the haze was coming you soo much or
Indonesia or wherever else well globally
we are making food production happen
it’s not one country’s problem it’s cool
now that’s a common on person actually
make a difference we obviously can’t be
Steve Jobs or Anthony however we can all
make a difference we can be agents of
change whether it be sends on into space
or whether it’s just taking your bag to
supermarkets and cut down on the plastic
because at the end of the day it’s only
ever going to be wrong grain of rice to
tip the scales so this in mind I started
the gossiping to protect more action
we’re about 100 volunteers we’re based
in in Keaau expanding very soon we take
lots of food from supermarkets and
manufacturers applause failures and in
just over 20 months we gave out 1
million meals and that’s growing much
more because we’re taking them lots
better lots more time to live with
multinationals and you know the amount
of money with saving the government and
the society here landfill incineration
is billions and for me the best thing of
all is that the food that goes off
bursts of food that we need the most
which is once high in protein that’s
healthy it’s fresh vegetable or special
foods and this is what benefits our
challenges appeal to the most it’s easy
to recruit people to do this because
feeding is a human
things and you know a bubble louse I
think the reason that we project work so
well is because we all wanna just
society you know but the trouble is is
that how’d you get fair redistribution
of wealth in society it’s very hard
isn’t it and there’s lots of reasons for
it but one of the reasons is that we
don’t throw in money do it
however with food we do you know if
there are way food every minute of every
day
so third-biggest ablution is could be a
reality if we make very lightly so now
you all know the secret and the
environmental impact and damage this
makes I’d like you to understand what an
indictment is on all of us water bottles
of water were throwing away toothbrushes
to shampoos everything’s all doing in
landfill pudding a big problem for us so
what can we do what can you do this is a
start at the must be projects during the
interval Asia and I hope this is the
beginning of your journey to we think we
should accept what’s happening and I
hope you agreed to you can start doing
things in your communities because make
sure you store food properly you put
food public you freeze food for me but
the one thing you must do how can you
take this ring today is you must do
something do nothing because if you do you are also
what motivated you to be in this
Fletcher theater but the reason I am
here is because around three years ago I
was in a local supermarket in fact
accelerated and I saw some bananas
there is shiny yellow bananas and I was
talking to the store manager from the
supermarket and I saw these bananas
being put into a supermarket we just
wheeled away so I said to him he said to
me well there’s newer shinier bananas
coming in so they’re basically for the
dustbin and I was quite shocked
I said lovely yellow shiny bananas what
would happen to them and he said no way
that’s possible said what happens is
even sometimes they can be cut up and
sliced up to make sure they don’t go to
somebody but I was really involved I
mean I can understand that you don’t
always want staff to take the product
owner because obviously people can end
up mishandling and doing things
deliberately but there’s absolutely no
excuse with fearing those bananas away
because there’s so many people in
Malaysia and around the world that need
those sorts of things so that’s what I
thought something has to change it so
I’d like to actually stop because for me
in terms of sustainability in the thin
waist I actually think the biggest
problem out of everything is us
knowledge so I’m going to ask anybody to
stand up I’m gonna ask you four
questions okay it’s very simple if you
think the answer is a or to stick with
the left hand if you think the answer is
B or top your right hands and you think
the answer is C put up both hands to get
the answer right hooray congratulations
keep standing if you get it wrong I’d
like you to quickly sit down so question
one there are 800 million people in the
world somewhere between hunger and
starvation death surface food we call it
loss food it’s thrown away every day if
we could use this food to feed these
people how many of these people could we
feed if you think the answer is about
half of them at your left hand if you
think we could feed all the hungry
people in the whole world
drop your right hand or if you think we
could feed all of them times four stick
up their pants so let’s do high in the
air okay and you can stay standing if
you said see both hands in the air
everyone else left hand right hand sit
down please sit down you’ve got it wrong
okay
right next question is how often not
human being but just a child how often
is a child died from hunger somewhere in
the world but just purely of hunger if
you think the child is dying every five
seconds your left hands if you think the
child is dying every minute drop your
right hands and if you think the child
is dying every single
okay you can stay standing if you sadly
said every five seconds now if some
people say it’s raining some people say
it’s five seconds some people say it’s
ten seconds but whatever is it’s a lot
next question I don’t know who like Byrd
ex Isle of boiled eggs so I mean it’s
question so how long do you think a
boiled egg can be safely eaten I how
long can it last and fridge and still be
good to eat if you think it’s one day
for the left hand if you think it’s
three days put up your right hands if
you think it’s an entire week put up
their ass behind the air and you can
stay standing if you said okay this is
the last question I think okay the use
by date in the food is very important
it’s usually meat seafood dairy products
that you really have to be careful
because you can get sick however the
best before date is actually just an
indication of the quality of the product
and when it begins to deteriorate so
often if like sometimes there’s tiny bit
different but it doesn’t really matter
in terms so which of the following
products does not need the best before
dates if you think it’s like sugar left
hand do you think it’s vinegar
throughout the right hand what if you
think it’s cooking oil good at both
hands so higher yet okay you people have
got this wrong you’re gonna right you
can stay standing if you said vinegar to
me everyone else it
now if you look around the theater you
will see that actually there’s not that
many of us standing like really and if I
put another couple of questions I’m sure
I could get a few more and examine and
victims just an illustration of afforded
us all of us really don’t know about
food anymore maybe fifty years ago or
hundred years ago but nowadays we would
like fast food and you just just forget
what food is all about so I mean it’s
for me it’s very funny because one of
the things I love most about living in
Malaysia is the love of food how people
connect with food they celebrate with
food for me coming from England
originally you know the English talk
about the weather constantly where is in
Malaysia its food it’s you like
international sport and yeah when you
look at this today a lot of food waste
in general isn’t it amazing how little
we know about something we love so I
think you know and I think about the
arguments I hear about where the best of
nasi lemak draw in the best laughter or
it really is such a contradiction little
thing so anyway I’m going to tell you
about my journey I actually started my
eyes were opened to the secret world of
diploid green waste around about 20
years ago just over 20 years ago
I was waitressing in a restaurant with
parents in Cape Town
and like most restaurants many many
restaurants we were throwing away bins
of great food every single day and we
have kitchen staff through from the
townships who didn’t have very much
money on a very basic wage and they were
busted and it was just incredible
because at the end of the day there was
so much glorious beautiful food we had
prime mistakes we have pristine salads
we had perfect portions of puddings but
what happened to them
splat into the landfill they would go it
was very very eye-opening and of course
again the staff said cannot give to the
employers it cannot give to the staff so
all this is going to be able to receive
it so I eventually returned to the UK
after living in Africa and funnily
enough I have two friends that will work
in food banks one of them Robin I used
to work at BBC where he took me to the
oxygen food bank and I definitely
remember going in and just seeing them
past expensive food everywhere
it was shocking I have to say I looked
around and ask why the supermarkets
giving
to you and you said it’s because it’s
cheaper for them to give it to me than
it is for them to dispose them and then
I sort of have another good friend
called Lindsay who works fair share
which is one of the bigger food banks in
the UK and Lindsay used to actually live
in Borneo himself so he’s got a very
strong connection with Malaysia and I
think partly because of this he’s been
absolutely instrumental in helping us
set up your food projects here in
Malaysia so this is a tiny portion of
warehouse its aisles and aisles and
aisles and it’s what we use and rooms of
fridges and freezers and as I say
there’s 21 different demos the location
alert and this isn’t even the biggest
food bank you know that’s 21 so two
thousand other food banks in the UK and
millions of people and using these food
banks every single day and it’s not just
in UK it’s every single country in
Newark Spain it’s the Germany France you
look at North America everywhere has all
these food banks so hopefully we’ll
start this here in Malaysia too because
there’s only a couple of many that are
going and yet there’s so much food here
why is that because in this region of
the world it’s so cheap relatively the
land and labour and so many the the big
multinational companies and producing
food here and then disposing all this
and after me is such an irony because in
this region of the world countries like
Indonesia and Philippines Cambodia etc
there’s so many people that could
benefit from this food that’s been
thrown away so I’m going to now show you
some reasons why food is thrown away and
please don’t get offended because I can
tell you this happens every day this
this all this predicted by us what’s
wrong with it vegetables okay just
[Music]
[Applause]
so you see the reasons you know ugly
vegetables expiry dates you know they
expire it could be a few weeks or a few
months whoever shops don’t like to store
things only have six months factories
cancel orders but then they still have
to produce them so that goes straight in
the bin if the labeling is ruined made
me a halal sticker it’s like in the
wrong shape import paperwork I think we
spend hours talking to about the reasons
but you get the general picture the
other thing is it’s so like to introduce
our truck this isn’t one of the two
trucks in the spoon project has it’s a
five-ton truck and it’s yeah we take all
our food and I like to just tell you
more about that we convey about the
waste let’s continue to have it and all
the costs that you know companies are
spending and throwing this food because
it’s a lot of money because 30 percent
of all food
way but we absorb because the consumer
you and I are paying for all this food
to be very way in this cycle does not
stop spinning in Malaysia alone three
thousand tons of food every single day
is thrown away
that’s far to around ten million meals
and if you look at our truck I love each
truck when we spit it up any time I’ve
finished up seventeen thousand meals on
waste of food and this watch Rock of
ours if you compare that to Malaysia
that’s six hundred trucks five times the
big trucks you see in the road every
single day if you like maths if you
break that down that’s 25 trucks a day
that equates to 8,000 meals every single
minute are being thrown away here in
Malaysia okay 8,000 meals and that’s a
conservative estimate
this isn’t including the food that is at
the back of a fridge or throwing away
because we’ve finished our meals and
restaurants or at home it’s huge its
massive it’s it’s just incredible so and
it doesn’t need to happen that’s the key
thing here you know 32,000 meals every
minute we’re throwing away there’s a lot
of people that need that food so there’s
very very real need to agree to that and
this is what an alternative is this is
our warehouse this is some of the food
and you can see how lovely that the rats
and the greens are and this is normally
like this in the bed there’s just a tip
of the iceberg and I’m sure you will
know you don’t have to look very far in
all our lives and find food waste this
that’s not a real food here but then
this does not need to happen because
there is a very neat and local solution
should we be feeding these people or we
should really leave this you know that
is the reality it’s it’s not very hard
to but how to change this the way needs
to change here now in villages
volunteers like us because government
and industry cannot do this on their own
they need somebody to lead them to take
from them and we need to show them what
the benefits can be for them and all the
benefits our society and I’d like to use
myself as an example of how random ideas
or movements can happen because my
journey I never wanted to be a food
challenge as well in fact I wanted to do
something very different
I wanted to yes
I wanted to work as a as a journalist I
would I did work at BBC news for a long
time and it was great
sadly like a lot of women I had to stop
because I had family and had to pull out
my husband but lucky for me I came to
Malaysia in 2014 and I work with
volunteer I worked with refugees and I
got to see the desperate need many had
food and I also got to see myself
through the impact food waste has been
the environment or the deforestation is
taking away forests planting food that
we still throw away of didn’t even eat
and what I experienced myself as the
haze having to wear a face mask our kids
are not going to
having to take pop with those because
the haze was coming you soo much or
Indonesia or wherever else well globally
we are making food production happen
it’s not one country’s problem it’s cool
now that’s a common on person actually
make a difference we obviously can’t be
Steve Jobs or Anthony however we can all
make a difference we can be agents of
change whether it be sends on into space
or whether it’s just taking your bag to
supermarkets and cut down on the plastic
because at the end of the day it’s only
ever going to be wrong grain of rice to
tip the scales so this in mind I started
the gossiping to protect more action
we’re about 100 volunteers we’re based
in in Keaau expanding very soon we take
lots of food from supermarkets and
manufacturers applause failures and in
just over 20 months we gave out 1
million meals and that’s growing much
more because we’re taking them lots
better lots more time to live with
multinationals and you know the amount
of money with saving the government and
the society here landfill incineration
is billions and for me the best thing of
all is that the food that goes off
bursts of food that we need the most
which is once high in protein that’s
healthy it’s fresh vegetable or special
foods and this is what benefits our
challenges appeal to the most it’s easy
to recruit people to do this because
feeding is a human
things and you know a bubble louse I
think the reason that we project work so
well is because we all wanna just
society you know but the trouble is is
that how’d you get fair redistribution
of wealth in society it’s very hard
isn’t it and there’s lots of reasons for
it but one of the reasons is that we
don’t throw in money do it
however with food we do you know if
there are way food every minute of every
day
so third-biggest ablution is could be a
reality if we make very lightly so now
you all know the secret and the
environmental impact and damage this
makes I’d like you to understand what an
indictment is on all of us water bottles
of water were throwing away toothbrushes
to shampoos everything’s all doing in
landfill pudding a big problem for us so
what can we do what can you do this is a
start at the must be projects during the
interval Asia and I hope this is the
beginning of your journey to we think we
should accept what’s happening and I
hope you agreed to you can start doing
things in your communities because make
sure you store food properly you put
food public you freeze food for me but
the one thing you must do how can you
take this ring today is you must do
something do nothing because if you do you are also
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