Taste the Waste  A documentary about the worldwide destruction
of food. Why do we throw away so much? And how can we stop this
kind of waste? Film by Valentin Thurn  Amazing but true: On the
way from the farm to the dining-room table, more than half the
food lands on the dump. Most of it before it ever reaches
consumers. For instance every other head of lettuce or potato.
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When it comes right down to it, no one actually thinks this is
okay: Food is not something to be thrown away “because others
have nothing to eat”, as younger people would say, and as for
the elderly: “I was around during the war and we were glad to
get our hands on every crust of bread!” That’s one side of the
story. They discover the other side when they venture a look
into dumpsters: behind their local supermarket and, if they can
summon up enough courage, in the trash cans outside their own
door. We’re not talking about chicken bones and potato peels
here. The topic at hand i