Liz Seymour on the fine art of dumpster diving: "A vegetable is either edible or visibly too far gone to be edible. It’s obvious. Our national obsession with perfect appearance extends to the produce section: most of what we find in the dumpster is not rotten, it’s just got a nick or soft spot. You would eat it without a thought if you found it in your own refrigerator."
More: "The US Department of Agriculture estimates that 97 billion pounds of edible food goes to waste in the United States—that’s over a quarter of the food produced in this country."
Yesterday: Liz addresses some dumpsterphobes --I would guess that my housemates and I eat much more healthily than the average American. Dumpstered fruits and vegetables vs. McDonald’s? Tough call. -- and gets all famous again.
Except for the whole maggot/roach/vermin thing I agree with the fridge story.
Posted by: mick | Oct 11, 2007 at 09:23 AM