It’s never revealed who came up with the idea, but director Grant Baldwin and producer Jenny Rustemeyer decided to make a movie about an unusual decision about their eating habits. Call it “dumpster diving,” call it “eating garbage,” but don’t call this movie a boring or dull examination about the way we grow, cultivate, shop for and purchase our food. In Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story, a Canadian couple sets out to determine how much of our food ends up wasted, and how our habits and perceptions determine what we buy, why we buy, and how long we keep it in our fridges and cupboards.
The rules of the game are simple: the couple can only survive on food waste for six months, although they are allowed to eat what friends and family serve. Leftovers are okay, buying food that’s discounted because it’s about to expire is okay,...
The rules of the game are simple: the couple can only survive on food waste for six months, although they are allowed to eat what friends and family serve. Leftovers are okay, buying food that’s discounted because it’s about to expire is okay,...
- 4/28/2014
- by Adam A. Donaldson
- We Got This Covered
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