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This Entrepreneur Has Come Up With An Amazing (And Simple!) Way To Feed Millions Of Hungry People For Free!

Up to 40 percent of the food grown, produced and sold in America never makes it onto a plate. Rob Greenfield, an American adventurer, environmental activist, and entrepreneur, wanted to know where it was going instead. So, he set off on a cross-country bike trip to find out. The answer is both shocking and beautiful.

Rob discovered that grocery stores and restaurants are the worst when it comes to throwing away perfectly edible food.

Do you see something wrong with these bananas?

Every day, these companies toss entire cases of produce and other stuff, just because it looks like real food (aka ripe or weirdly shaped), or because they need room on a shelf.

And how does Rob know this? Well, he climbed into the dumpsters and rescued it.

“One in 7 Americans don’t have the food they need, yet we are throwing away enough food to feed every hungry American five times over!” Rob’s solution is simple: he wants grocery stores to stop dumping and start donating.

Food rescued from dumpsters in Madison, Wisconsin.

“The most common excuse for not donating is that they fear liability, but according to a University of Arkansas study, not a single lawsuit has ever been made against a grocery store that has donated food to a food rescue program.”

Food rescued from dumpsters in Chicago, Illinois.

“While in Chicago I spent time in Englewood, the poorest neighborhood in town, and learned that most of the people on the block…go to bed hungry almost every night. When I explained to them what I find in dumpsters they just couldn’t wrap their heads around it. So I took them out diving in the northern suburbs and we filled their jeep with over $2,500 worth of food in under two hours.”

In fact, “[s]tores that donate are protected from lawsuits by the Good Samaritan Food Act, they get tax write offs which means it’s profitable to donate, they spend less on dumpster fees, and most importantly they are doing what is right for their community!”

Food rescued from dumpsters in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Want to help hold wasteful stores accountable AND feed hungry Americans?

Visit dumpsters in your area, and if you find a lot of edible food, take a picture or video. Tweet, Facebook, or Instagram the media at the wasteful company with #DonateNotDump. “Food is life and life is too good to be thrown into a dumpster!”

Source: Beth Buczynski via Distractify

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This Entrepreneur Has Come Up With An Amazing (And Simple!) Way To Feed Millions Of Hungry People For Free!

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