This is a great story about an amazing movement to eliminate food waste, create green jobs by doing so, as well as feeding the homeless and hungry. The movement is called FoodShift, and I felt especially compelled by this story because working at the dining hall at Western, I see a massive amount of food wasted. While it is composted, a large amount of it is still edible and untouched and there is large population in Bellingham of hungry and homeless within just a mile of our school.
As we learn about all the externalized costs of mass food production, such as pollution, waste, and health concerns, it is truly a shame to know that 40% of all food in our country is thrown away while 50 million Americans are food insecure. FoodShift eliminates this waste and closes the loop in food product's life cycle while creating social benefits and opportunities for disadvantaged or low-income individuals. It is great to see a sustainable movement such as this that gets rid of an aspect of the American lifestyle that is unsustainable, illogical, and unnecessary.
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