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

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 foods that would
otherwise have gone to waste
America is a country which has a massive
problem of food waste 40% 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 their course in our homes food has
been rejected because it’s too ugly the
wrong shape or size
so these Kali flowers for example
perfectly delicious and edible they’ve
just got a few blemishes and the
wholesalers weren’t able to sell them
then we go in we intervene we say don’t
chuck that away give it to us we’re
going to cook it up five thousand people
we had 800 pounds 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 so 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
five thousand 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 menu
some people call them Frankenfish some
people think that they look like a snake
that they’re ugly