{"id":1512,"date":"2018-06-01T07:26:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T07:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2018-06-01T07:26:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T07:26:30","slug":"putting-food-waste-to-good-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/2018\/06\/01\/putting-food-waste-to-good-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting Food Waste to Good Use"},"content":{"rendered":"

When asked what topic I wanted to focus on for the group action project, I was immediately drawn to the food waste category. I know that a lot of food from restaurants and stores goes to waste, and I wanted to help change that. This paper and project ended up having a substantial effect on me, and I feel like this is one of the few final projects that I’ve really enjoyed participating in and writing about.<\/p>\n

My group decided that we would contact a variety of restaurants\/stores and shelters\/food banks in order to take excess food waste from the former to the latter. We contacted Roots, a youth shelter near UW, and POPY’s, a shelter in Shoreline. Both were excited and willing to take any donations we could get. We were able to get donations from Einstein Bagels in University Village and Whole Foods. Whole Foods was able to donate pastries and bread, and we got about $200 worth of food from them. We took our donations to Roots because it was closer to the university, but I’d like to donate to POPY’s at some point on my own. Though we weren’t able to achieve our goal of donating multiple times (we only did it three times), it still made a small impact on our community and made a large impact on me.<\/p>\n

When writing my final paper, I considered the material that we learned over the course of the last ten weeks, and most connected with the Pollan reading. When writing about Michael Pollan, I focused largely on how his ideal world was unattainable for anyone who struggled financially. Pollan completely disregards the fact that a large portion of our population cannot afford to simply “eat healthier and organic”. He ignores that food deserts are prevalent in our country, that not everyone has access to farmer’s markets and large organic supermarkets, nor the money for that. Restaurants and grocery stores produce excess food every single day and throw it away – a wasteful practice that could change and be useful for those who can’t afford food. Any establishment that refuses to donate excess food or produces a large amount of excess food at the end of the day and throws it out is contributing to a counterproductive cycle in society. Said establishments seem to have policies that line up with Pollan – if you have money you can eat, and often times you eat much better than those less fortunate than yourself.\u00a0\"\" \"\"<\/p>\n

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When asked what topic I wanted to focus on for the group action project, I was immediately drawn to the food waste category. I know that a lot of food from restaurants and stores goes to waste, and I wanted to help change that. This paper and project ended up having a substantial effect on me, and I feel like… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1515,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}