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  • "Feeding the 5,000" is a celebration of the solutions to food waste,

  • where we feed 5,000 people a delicious meal made entirely out of foods that would otherwise have gone to waste.

  • America is a country which has a massive problem of food waste; 40% of the food isn't consumed.

  • A huge amount of perfectly good food is being wasted, all the way up and down the supply chain.

  • You start on the farms; you go to manufacturers, wholesalers, restaurants, and of course in our homes.

  • Food has been rejected because it's too ugly, the wrong shape or size.

  • So, these cauliflowers, for example, perfectly delicious and edible.

  • They've just got a few blemishes, and the wholesalers weren't able to sell them.

  • And we go in, we intervene, we say, "Don't chuck that away! Give it to us. We're gonna cook it up for 5,000 people."

  • We had 800 pounds of just the sweet potatoes today, and that's just the beginning.

  • We have hundreds and hundreds of pounds of food that would otherwise have gone to waste that we're putting to good use.

  • We've got teams of four to six chopping vegetables around big round tables while they listen to the music and enjoy the day.

  • So, right now, we are putting the finishing touches on the 5,000 meals of vegetable curry that we've started preparing yesterday and will be serving to the community today.

  • It's up to us, the citizens of this country, of this world, to say, "We're fed up with food waste, and it's time to take food waste off the menu."

"Feeding the 5,000" is a celebration of the solutions to food waste,

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