Feeding the 5000 photos

Feeding the 5000 was a truly fantastic and inspiring event to be involved in. It was a great way to educate the public about food waste and food security. And of course a chance for everyone to share a free lunch!

There was a brief appearance from Boris Johnson which helped bring some mainstream press coverage to the event too. I concentrated on the more subtle details of the day, especially interesting was the huge pile of food provided by produce world that was rejected by the supermarkets because it wasn’t perfect – what a signifier of how much perfectly good food is wasted unnecessarily every day: current estimates put it at 30% of all food in the UK!

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