Comments on: Freeganism http://fifthestate.co.uk/2007/06/freeganism/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:46:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: angela sheeran http://fifthestate.co.uk/2007/06/freeganism/#comment-164102 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:11:20 +0000 http://fifthestate.co.uk/2007/06/freeganism/#comment-164102 I am a producer working on a programme called World Today, on BBC World Service Radio. We are discussing food waste on the programme tonight and I want to find a Freegan to interview on our programme. Would you be available? Or can you help with a talkative contact? My direct line today is +44 207 557 3676 Angela I am a producer working on a programme called World Today, on BBC World Service Radio. We are discussing food waste on the programme tonight and I want to find a Freegan to interview on our programme. Would you be available? Or
can you help with a talkative contact?
My direct line today is +44 207 557 3676
Angela

]]> by: Fiona http://fifthestate.co.uk/2007/06/freeganism/#comment-137726 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:18:05 +0000 http://fifthestate.co.uk/2007/06/freeganism/#comment-137726 Hi Tristram, I am currently working on a University assignment on subcultures and find Freeganism fascinating. I would be hugely grateful if you could email me and I will send some questions. Just in case you are suspicious at all, we are very much in agreement with your principles and are curious as to how you organise yourselves and communicate together. Please email at your earliest convenience. Many thanks and looking forward tohearing from you, Fiona Hi Tristram,

I am currently working on a University assignment on subcultures and find Freeganism fascinating. I would be hugely grateful if you could email me and I will send some questions. Just in case you are suspicious at all, we are very much in agreement with your principles and are curious as to how you organise yourselves and communicate together.

Please email at your earliest convenience.

Many thanks and looking forward tohearing from you,

Fiona

]]> by: Joy Harris http://fifthestate.co.uk/2007/06/freeganism/#comment-68531 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:56:38 +0000 http://fifthestate.co.uk/2007/06/freeganism/#comment-68531 Hi Tristram, Am compiling a feature on food waste for an over-50s magazine and would love to go on a 'raid' one evening to see the extent of the problem and cook a meal from the takings. Do you have an older friend who knows the ropes and might accompany me? I'm based in Peterborough but could get to London/Cambridge easily. If not, could I come with you? I fit the age range, so it would still count! Hope you can help, Thanks, Joy Hi Tristram,
Am compiling a feature on food waste for an over-50s magazine and would love to go on a ‘raid’ one evening to see the extent of the problem and cook a meal from the takings. Do you have an older friend who knows the ropes and might accompany me? I’m based in Peterborough but could get to London/Cambridge easily. If not, could I come with you? I fit the age range, so it would still count!
Hope you can help,
Thanks,
Joy

]]> by: Karol Orzechowski http://fifthestate.co.uk/2007/06/freeganism/#comment-59667 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:36:17 +0000 http://fifthestate.co.uk/2007/06/freeganism/#comment-59667 Hi again, I thought I would include the website for our radio station and show for you to peruse if you would like to check us out: Our radio station: www.ciut.fm Our program website: www.animalvoices.ca Our radio listenership is hard to measure, but our show is also distributed as a podcast, and our archive has a wide international audience (in over 50 countries). Our show archive is accessed approximately 500 times per day, and our most popular shows are downloaded many thousand times. Should you require any more information, please don't hesitate to contact me. Cheers, Karol Orzechowski, Producer / Technical Supervision, Animal Voices. Hi again,

I thought I would include the website for our radio station and show for you to peruse if you would like to check us out:

Our radio station: www.ciut.fm

Our program website: www.animalvoices.ca

Our radio listenership is hard to measure, but our show is also distributed as a podcast, and our archive has a wide international audience (in over 50 countries). Our show archive is accessed approximately 500 times per day, and our most popular shows are downloaded many thousand times.

Should you require any more information, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Cheers,
Karol Orzechowski,
Producer / Technical Supervision,
Animal Voices.

]]> by: Karol Orzechowski http://fifthestate.co.uk/2007/06/freeganism/#comment-59652 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:51:47 +0000 http://fifthestate.co.uk/2007/06/freeganism/#comment-59652 Hi Tristram, My name is Karol Orzechowski and I'm the producer for an animal advocacy radio show in Toronto, Canada called Animal Voices. We just received a review copy of "Bloodless Revolution" from your publisher, and we would love to have you on our program to talk about your various writings. Please e-mail me if you're interested: animalvoices AT gmail DOT com Hi Tristram,

My name is Karol Orzechowski and I’m the producer for an animal advocacy radio show in Toronto, Canada called Animal Voices. We just received a review copy of “Bloodless Revolution” from your publisher, and we would love to have you on our program to talk about your various writings.

Please e-mail me if you’re interested:

animalvoices AT gmail DOT com

]]> by: Tom Butler http://fifthestate.co.uk/2007/06/freeganism/#comment-45670 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:27:13 +0000 http://fifthestate.co.uk/2007/06/freeganism/#comment-45670 Dear Tristram, I came across this post in an attempt to get in touch after reading Bloodless Revolution - what a brilliant book. Although it is packed with data, references and revelations, your writing style makes it easy to read. Its certainly not a casual read - there's too much history and philosophy on every page - but it is certainly very enjoyable. Thank you. (By coincidence, our April newsletter's editor's perspective (http://www.astraea.net/holonics/magazine/ 20070430.htm#perspective) came to the same conclusion as Bloodless Revolution - eat less, and a lot less flesh!) I also enjoyed the post above, by the way. Reminded me of a recent article in The Ecologist. And I didn't realise we waste so much. I wasn't sure of the numbers but it looked like about a third of food is chucked out (not even composted) along the distribution chain. In a normal business, that much waste would put the business out of business! I hope we have a chance to be in touch one day - virtually or otherwise. Best wishes, Tom Dear Tristram,
I came across this post in an attempt to get in touch after reading Bloodless Revolution - what a brilliant book. Although it is packed with data, references and revelations, your writing style makes it easy to read. Its certainly not a casual read - there’s too much history and philosophy on every page - but it is certainly very enjoyable. Thank you.
(By coincidence, our April newsletter’s editor’s perspective (http://www.astraea.net/holonics/magazine/
20070430.htm#perspective) came to the same conclusion as Bloodless Revolution - eat less, and a lot less flesh!)
I also enjoyed the post above, by the way. Reminded me of a recent article in The Ecologist. And I didn’t realise we waste so much. I wasn’t sure of the numbers but it looked like about a third of food is chucked out (not even composted) along the distribution chain. In a normal business, that much waste would put the business out of business!
I hope we have a chance to be in touch one day - virtually or otherwise.
Best wishes,
Tom

]]> by: Tristram Stuart http://fifthestate.co.uk/2007/06/freeganism/#comment-37761 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:12:40 +0000 http://fifthestate.co.uk/2007/06/freeganism/#comment-37761 Hi Peter, I am absolutely not talking about giving away food that is stale or past its use-by date. Fareshare and other organisations collect food from supermarkets and manufacturers while it is still fresh, and redistribute it in a hygienic and dignified manner to thousands of people across the country. If you go down to the Fareshare depot in Bermondsey (they're always looking for volunteers), you'll see it's all good fresh food, exactly as you'd buy it in the shops. And yes, you are absolutely right that the first step is to avoid creating surplus in the first place. The U.S. study that I mention, by Dr Timothy Jones at the University of Arizona, found that about half of food waste could be avoided by reducing the creation of unnecessary surplus. This would include simple measures such as training retail and catering staff to avoid ordering or preparing more food than they are likely to sell. Such measures are good for business, as well as for society and the environment. Hi Peter,
I am absolutely not talking about giving away food that is stale or past its use-by date. Fareshare and other organisations collect food from supermarkets and manufacturers while it is still fresh, and redistribute it in a hygienic and dignified manner to thousands of people across the country. If you go down to the Fareshare depot in Bermondsey (they’re always looking for volunteers), you’ll see it’s all good fresh food, exactly as you’d buy it in the shops.
And yes, you are absolutely right that the first step is to avoid creating surplus in the first place. The U.S. study that I mention, by Dr Timothy Jones at the University of Arizona, found that about half of food waste could be avoided by reducing the creation of unnecessary surplus. This would include simple measures such as training retail and catering staff to avoid ordering or preparing more food than they are likely to sell. Such measures are good for business, as well as for society and the environment.

]]> by: Peter Sherrott http://fifthestate.co.uk/2007/06/freeganism/#comment-36568 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:19:45 +0000 http://fifthestate.co.uk/2007/06/freeganism/#comment-36568 Hi Tristram - I've actually met you at one of Charity's Isle of Wight retreats (performing Shakespeare I believe!) and just wanted to say how much I'm enjoying your Bloodless Revolution book - really good suff! With regards this article, I was just wondering whether there were legal issues surrounding the safe usage of food and that anything disposed of must come close to these boundaries? The principle of re-distribution is clearly admirable, but it seems a real shame to be feeding the food-impoverished from our bins (emotively stated as this is) - is there not the potential for legislation to prevent/decrease the massive overproduction and subsequent wastage of food? Cheers, Pete Hi Tristram - I’ve actually met you at one of Charity’s Isle of Wight retreats (performing Shakespeare I believe!) and just wanted to say how much I’m enjoying your Bloodless Revolution book - really good suff!

With regards this article, I was just wondering whether there were legal issues surrounding the safe usage of food and that anything disposed of must come close to these boundaries? The principle of re-distribution is clearly admirable, but it seems a real shame to be feeding the food-impoverished from our bins (emotively stated as this is) - is there not the potential for legislation to prevent/decrease the massive overproduction and subsequent wastage of food?

Cheers,
Pete

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