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“Would to God that all the Lord's people were Prophets.” Num. 11:29
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Dundee
May 24th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Wow
Thats an amazing account of the situation as it stands. Things are no different in Auckland with a larger population; therefore larger supermarkets and many suburbs going through a period of gentrification the amount of food being thrown away and its quality is phenomenal.
Its awesome to hear that other people throughout Aotearoa are daring to reimagine a world without inequality and systemic injustice. I am aware of at least one group up in Auckland that collects food for redistribution every week , as well as individuals who are actively seeking to subvert the empire through small nonviolent food redistributing actions on a community level.
As for health and safety concerns in my view these are almost totally unfounded. If the supermarket were to instead of throwing best before, superficially damaged packaging and end of line(old model/branding) goods into the bin instead leave them aside for regular collection by foodbanks (who already have systems for collecting food) the issue would be for the most part solved. As it stands the supermarkets put token food donation boxes at their front door while at the back door throw away (at least at my local supermarket) thousands of dollars worth of safe, edible food at the back door. All the while families 100 meters down the road go hungry.
In my view it is the responsibility and calling of christians to stand against injustice in any and every form. This might be as simple as a discussion with your local supermarket bringing him/her into dialog with the local foodbank or it may mean that you may have to personally step in and reclaim food for the community or anything in between
Grace and Peace
Dundee
nick_laing31
March 13th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
We are a couple of Canterbury students who have discovered the hideous amounts of supermarket waste through dumpster diving. At the moment we are doing nothing to prevent the problem but are keen to tackle the problem and put some energy into getting as much of the food as possible to people who need it.
We have read your articles from the JUST site and ODT and were want to know where you are up to in your efforts. If you could give us advice or links to information that could help us that would be great.
If you know of any others in Christchurch that are doing the same thing that would be great as well. We have repeated this message on the JUST site to spam you into replying :p
God Bless, Nick and Tessa.
nick_laing31
March 13th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
sorry, I missed out contact details :/
E-mail back to nick_laing31@hotmail.com