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Bread is one of the most wasted food items. We throw out almost 750 million loaves each year. All of the food above was rescued from curbside trash outside of a market and bakery in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn.


Immature egg yolks from the oviducts of culled layer hens were used by chef Dan Barber over a stew of kale ribs and imperfect potatoes and parsnips during his wastED pop-up restaurant event in New York in March 2015.


Oyster shells from Brooklyn’s Maison Premiere Restaurant are reclaimed by the Billion Oyster Project, which aims to restore one billion live oysters in the New York harbor. These shells can be used in new oyster beds.

1 posted on 07/01/2016 10:34:57 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

This is political theater and not a meaningul way to feed the poor people in a nation of 330 million people.

You want to end poverty and put food on people’s plates? Get government out of the way.

End Liberalism.
End Socialism.
Cut government in half. For a start.

Social Justice Warriors are not the solution. They are part of the problem.


2 posted on 07/01/2016 10:42:19 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The official language of the United States should be Arabic. It's clear that our government is.)
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To: nickcarraway

The food that appears to be free is known in the industry as “waste.” Someone has to pay for it. In this case, it’s the restaurant’s customers who are charged enough to cover the waste. If they weren’t, the restaurant would go out of business and the “free” food would disappear.

There is no such thing as a free lunch. Or a free late-night snack, for that matter.


3 posted on 07/01/2016 10:42:22 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: nickcarraway

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources has been doing the oyster shell program for years.


4 posted on 07/01/2016 10:47:11 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: nickcarraway

What is going to be absolutely hilarious is when the poor folk who have scavenged for food to survive will be pushed out of the way by yuppy “freegans” who take all their trashed food to their loft apartments downtown where they drink a $100 of wine to go with their reclaimed oysters.


5 posted on 07/01/2016 10:57:08 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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My stepfather used to buy chicken feed mixed with crushed oyster shells because the calcium makes egg shells stronger.


6 posted on 07/01/2016 10:57:16 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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It's a bear claw! You have no idea how rare this is.


8 posted on 07/01/2016 11:04:01 AM PDT by Gamecock ( Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul...Matthew 10:28)
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-—and then there are “expiration dates”—something along without which I got along, most of my life-—


9 posted on 07/01/2016 11:12:46 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: nickcarraway

A freegan is someone who takes food paid for by someone else who used money.


10 posted on 07/01/2016 11:46:07 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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Washington Compost just giving a heads-up to Big City dems; so they can figure out how to tax ‘free’.


12 posted on 07/01/2016 12:53:36 PM PDT by bakeneko
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When I was in France the Bakeries had “Old” Bread (Baked that Morning but by 2:00 PM it was “Old”) that was sold to feed the ducks in the river just down the street.

They take their bread very seriously ...


14 posted on 07/01/2016 3:36:13 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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