Nineteen years ago I visited a migrant labor camp where I encountered sub-standard living conditions and rampant hunger. In contrast, over the years, I observed the waste of thousands of pounds of all kinds of good, nutritious food: the daily discards of farms, schools, university dining halls, restaurants, supermarkets, bakeries and food wholesalers. I decided to do something about
the problem...
The author Sara Pines,
who lives at the EcoVillage of Ithaca, is the founder of the Friendship Donation Network, a food rescue program
now in its 19th year of operation.
