Table to Table

Did you know: for every Canadian EVERY SINGLE DAY 1 pound of food is wasted... Isn't that insane? How much is that? That means that Jeff and I put together weigh the same amount as ONE PERSON's annual waste. Wow. (Now just don't ask how much of that weight configuration is mine?!?!)

This morning's factually mindbending presentation by the Canadian "rep" for Leket Israel (http://www.leket.org/english/) was shocking. I have known by what Jeff ports home from vegetable growers - ripe and juicy and wonderfully tasty though somehow classified as imperfect "seconds" - that food waste is abundant. I survived my first job last night as catering help and scraping wedding guest plates made it even more obvious how much many of us squander. But a whole pound every single day for every single one of us???

How many more people could eat...

Leket Israel (known as "Table to Table" here) performs "Food Rescue" - from cafeterias, restaurants, army bases, catered events, leftovers are scrounged and given to the needy. For a cost of about 33 cents some hungry soul gets a $100 leftover wedding feast. (Apparently about 26% of Israelis regularly go hungry.)

And what about here in Canada? Why should any Canadian ever go hungry with the abundance so many here have? An age old question...and thankfully for you I won't sidle into discussion on capitalism here...

So now what can we do? What do we have a moral responsibility to do? What if it was us starving, or our children, neighbours, friends?