Field to Fork - 9 Billion Mouths to Feed: The Future of Farming (Ep. 2)

1. lovely. thank u.
2. nice
3. Waaw go west or east what you eat came from a farm.
4. Until we reduce our waste I think diving should be looked up upon. It's very humbling and a service to society. As long as people clean up and still make things look "socially acceptable" after I think it'll become a more common thing. That's awesome though. Had a guy that did the exact same thing around where I lived. Such a nice guy that people started offering him jobs, and he just said "no thanks." lol.
5. As long as a "diver" doesn't make a mess and just does his or her "thing" while respecting others, then my motto is, "Live and Let Live". I spoke with 1 guy a few years ago downtown. Had no employment and refused "welfare". Had a bicycle and went around looking for steel he'd collect for selling to wherever it's recycled here in town. Said he made enough income this way. Had to ride around much of this city to make enough $, but said he made enough to get by. Seemed to be & was a good guy.
6. That's pretty much how I'd treat it whenever doing it again, but not with locked bins. Where I now reside tho is in a much larger town, a small city, next to the small town where I was in 2000-2001, and there're enough divers around where i live downtown, so there's no point in my doing it. There'll be nothing left of value, so I won't bother. These or some of these guys do it in broad daylight in the center of town, but only for refundable bottles and cans, not food. No one seems to mind.
7. People should look up to dumpster divers. It's great. I've found some good stuff. It's cool that it is becoming more socially accepted in some regards. One thing that I've heard, but do not know if it is true is that garbage bins that are rented, leased or whatever you want to call it are still considered private property and are illegal to take from where as if we put out a garbage can it'd be considered surrendering our property to the public in order for it to be picked up.
8. I wouldn't try to break into locked bins or in any where owners, ..., warned me to not go into the bin. I'd only go into open bins and wouldn't do it during daylight if the bin is in full view of many people unless I knew it'd be a bin where people wouldn't care. Fe, I went around looking in bins around apt buildings where students resided while going to a nearby college in order to look for refundable bottles and cans in 2000 and 2001, and no one cared, not in terms of feeling offended anyway.
9. I'm in B.C. actually lol. The reason why it is illegal is mostly due to property laws. If they lock it and you break in it is illegal, have a sign up saying they don't want diving it is illegal, or if you are told by the owners, renters, leasers, or security guards it is illegal. Most of which is done because of divers leaving messes for people to clean. Basically only legal if you can find an open unguarded bin.
10. I don't know whr you live and if the same law exists whr I reside in Quebec, Canada, but the only reason that I can think could be used to "justify" making it a criminal offence to remove and keep foods taken out of other people's garbage is for health concern, to prevent someone from eating bad food and then become very ill. Otherwise, it'd be a totally ridiculous law. It shouldn't be criminal with food tho. At most, govt can simply issue informative warnings to explain what the dangers can be.
11. Totallly. And yes I do mean large bakeries. Where I live people are trying to charge my friends for digging up natural dried pet food out of the garbage because apparently it is there property still and taking it is a criminal offence. Knowing people who have worked in corporate store bakeries(including my girlfriend and close friends) have confirmed such dumping which most of which asked their managers about stating that they should give it to soup kitchens etc.
12. Liked the video and the student program looks great but didn't think it was appropriate to have an ad in front of this video. Are you guys aware that YouTube is advertising with this? 
13. Grocery stores & bakeries throwing out plenty of bread should leave their garbage bins unlocked or open. That way, a resourceful person who's very poor could find edible breads; bakeries that might not be organic but nevertheless make good breads anyway. I know of a small bakery a few miles from where i reside and once found several loaves of perfectly good bread in the garbage bin while looking for other things. Checked the loaves & they were good, so I grabbed them. They're at most 2 days old.
14. But you also said bakeries and if any of these are throwing out (into garbage) garbage-sized bags of bread, then you must surely mean large bakeries, rather than the those like the small single-owner ones I go to in the small city where I reside. These are small and owned by the bakers. Small, but produce a very satisfying selection of organic breads, & they sell fast. Anyone looking for thrown-out breads in the garbage bins at these bakeries will be lucky if they find 1 loaf.
15. Garbage can sized bags. It's just what grocery stores do for presentation. It's very common for a lot of produce to go bad as well. We do eat with our eyes first as the saying goes. I do know there is some laws around donating though. I'm not quite sure what they are, but I have ran it by friends that have worked in bakeries and they say they couldn't do it legally. :S
16. 1 to 2 bags of bread per day? What size bags? If only a couple of regular-sized bread bags, as normally found in grocery stores, then it's not surprising. Better, tho, is when stores and bakeries put this bread, assuming it actually still is good, which it often if not usually is, available to customers at reduced prices. And another option is to donate the bread to charitable organizations, such as the Salvation Army, f.e. The latter provides food to the needy for free, where I live anyway.
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18. The way we eat is another thing. We waste so much food is ridiculous. The average grocery store with a bakery throws away 1-2 bags full of bread a day, and that's just the bakery. Grocery stores overstock to look plentiful to appeal to their customers and end up throwing away half of their food. Even in restaurants the amount of food that gets throw is crazy. I could live off the food that we throw out at the pub I work in easily, and it is a small kitchen. Only six of us hired in the back.
19. Glad to hear it! More to come next week.
20. I'm loving this series!