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Birth of a Food-Not-Bombs (A Shroomerite's testimony to the richest of waste)
    #6043637 - 09/09/06 08:46 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

If you've never heard of Food-Not-Bombs, let me give you a brief overview. They aren't so much an organization, as an action. The goal is outlined pretty simply by my friend:

"What does Food Not Bombs do?

*Distributes free vegetarian food to local people in need,
*Provides literature tables to empower people with information about hunger, health, peace and justice.
*Provides hot meals at to protests and events.
*Organizes creative actions to end war and poverty"

simple.

So let me tell you about my experience with my sister birthing a FNB in Sarasota last night.

I drove about an hour from Tampa, bringing a cooler, some cookware, and two garbage bags full of emergency canned foods I had stashed away on my porch about a year ago. I figured that I wasn't going to eat it anytime soon, and that it would probably turn poisonous after a while of sitting in the florida heat.

I meet up with my sister and help her load up stuff into my car, like tables, and boxes upon boxes of smelly, half rotten vegetables! We haul it over to the New College campus and a small group of volunteers starts picking through and seeing what is good for eating, and what stuff should've stayed in the dumpster. Despite the smell, there was a treasure trove of perfectly fine, not rotten produce. Dozens and dozens of exquisitely ripe bananas, loaves of bread (slightly firm, but not stale by any means!) eggplants and cucumbers!!! Starfruit, grapes, cantaloupe slices! The only thing disgusting about this food was what was around it.

For two hours there was the hustle and bustle of cooking, chopping, boiling, and general horizontal leadership. There were a lot of "excuse me's" and cramming in to tiny campus kitchens. The coordination was obviously lacking. "Do we have paper plates?" "Spices?" "Wait, I thought someone said they got that already?" I didn't even learn any names until the night was over, people just got straight to business.

But soon, the smell of garbage was replaced with a pleasant smell of bread pudding, cinnimon, and a veggy stew with just about every plant imaginable in it! It was delicious! The girls took the ripe green apples and plums and bananas and star fruit and made a "fruit crumble" with "Fuck the Police" written decoratively on the crust in strips of fruit.

Some supplies were bought. For intance, I brought some intant mashed potatoes. Someone else brought falafel mix (to go with the dozens and dozens of of not stale pitas that were salvaged from the dumpster). But when I insisted on using the canned corn for the stew, my sis said "Save it for next week we have enough FRESH vegetables for right now." She had bought 25 husks of corn for $2.50! They didn't look pretty on the outside, but they were untouched on the inside.

So after this magnificent transformation we somehow got everything over to a local park and set up a table with the food. Fliers were handed out to people in the shelters the week before, so there were already a few homeless waiting for us.

Let me tell you what they picked out of no more than two seperate dumpsters. It was enough food to feed around a dozen homeless people, and twenty hungry activists, and there were STILL LEFT OVERS!!! And this was not rotten food people, this was GOOD FOOD! Many of the folks there said the veggie stew was some of the best they'd ever had! Donated clothes and blankets were offered for free.

I had a chance to talk to some of the folks there. One guy named Doug was telling us how Salvation army only gives them only 10 days in their shelter, and charges them $10 per day. They didn't even have BEDS! They were sleeping on the floors in the halls. They had no lockers to prevent against theft. City ordinances have been passed making it illegal to lay on a blanket in a public place if you've admitted that you have nowhere else to go. You are not allowed to "Sleep on or under any material" in public. Basically what these laws did was force the homeless to get out of sight, without addressing the problem. Many cities are making it illegal to feed the homeless in public. Before we arrived we were worried that police might harrass us since we didn't have a permit, but fortunately there was a fair going on downtown so they didn't even notice us.

I was told that in Orlando, they have been trying to shut down FNB to the point where they are feeding people out of vans now to avoid tresspassing and permit violations.

So let me ask you. Why is it that we have to DIG THROUGH THE GARBAGE OF CORPERATIONS like Sweetbay (formerly Kash 'n' Karry), and Starbucks to get food to starving people, and those in power are trying to stop it from happening?

Let me tell you something guys, you're paying too much for food. Food doesn't cost as much as we pay for it! These corperations throw massive amounts of food in the garbage so that they can inflate their prices and get top dollar for something that actually costs a few cents a pound to produce.

These corperations have built a system of economic dependence that has us trapped. We are raised to consume and waste food while we strip the land of nutrients. You know where chemical fertilzers come from? Natural Gas! We use massive amounts of chemical fertilzers so we can produce this HUGE surplus of food which could never be produced by organic means. But the irony is that we don't NEED this much food! We throw so much of it in the garbage without even composting it, that FNB is able to feed the entire homeless community of a city out of less than a dozen dumpsters.

But the question shouldn't be "why are they trying to stop this", but rather "why isn't the community doing anything for these people?" It used to be that if a person in the community was hungry or needed medical attention that they would receive it from those who cared about them, those who were close by. Now we ask them "Insurance? Medicaid? Bluecross? No money? No food and no healthcare! Fuck you!"

We live in a culture where everyone around us is a stranger not to be loved and helped, but to be feared and fucked over if it is to our benefit.

Many of these men were Vets! People say we need to support the troops? Why don't we start by supporting the ones that are starving on our doorsteps, and dying from Agent Orange poisoning! The government USED the lives of these people to make profits in illegal wars, and then it dumped them like trash. And now they want to stop people from feeding them in public?!!

I'm sorry but this is fucking bullshit! These were good people, willing to work just to survive, but the nature of our Must-have-transportation economy makes it impossible for us to form a self-sufficient community. So what happens when you destroy cheap housing and build million dollar condos on top of it, make it impossible for poor people to buy food, and refuse to provide shelter for those who are displaced by the system? Well you get Food Not Bombs feeding homeless Vets in your pretty landscaped parks.

I'm not asking you to go out and give everything you own to the poor. Hell I'm not even telling you to pick up a protest sign. You could vote Republican for all I fucking care! But I'll tell you this. Start buying fresh produce at FARMERS MARKETS, straight from the honest hard-working folk that grow them on the outskirts of your city. Buy FRESH food, rather than prepackaged poisons that make us fat and clog our arteries! Quit buying shit pumped full of preservatives from corperations who charge outrageous prices and then destroy perfectly nutritious food in front of the starving, while saying "No, you can't have any because you don't have any money"

Take a good hard look at your own lifestyle. Do you need to use that much fuel? Could you ride a bike rather than take a car? When was the last time your family sat down for a good ol' fashion'd home cooked meal? Is it a regular activity, or only reserved for holidays centered around consumerism? Do you know who your neighbors are? Do you even know their names? How long do you plan to live in your current neighborhood? Are you only there until you can make enough money to get a nicer place, or until your lease is up?

Before I ask you to take up activism, I'll ask you to take a look at your COMMUNITY. Where is it? Can you tell me?

There was only about a dozen homeless-folk that showed up, they said they'd spread the word. We're going to make it a weekly activity. For the St. Pete FNB the crowd has grown to (im told) 80 people comming weekly to feed! Last night I heard things like "We need kids like you, with hearts. Because nobody else we listen to us."

If you live around Sarasota or the Tampa bay, PM me if you want to help.

(* ps. Don't eat acid after feeding homeless people, unless you wanna feel really good and really bad at the same time *)

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Re: Birth of a Food-Not-Bombs (A Shroomerite's testimony to the richest of waste) [Re: dr0mni]
    #6043647 - 09/09/06 08:51 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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Many cities are making it illegal to feed the homeless in public




It's fucking heart-breaking, the world we live in.


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Re: Birth of a Food-Not-Bombs (A Shroomerite's testimony to the richest of waste) [Re: TheFakeSunRa]
    #6043739 - 09/09/06 09:42 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)


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Re: Birth of a Food-Not-Bombs (A Shroomerite's testimony to the richest of waste) [Re: dr0mni]
    #6049430 - 09/11/06 10:10 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Wow, I knew some deadheads in New York that had "food not bombs" on their tourbus.

I worked at a Popeyes chicken when I was younger and every night they threw away a large garbage bag of hot chicken. Then they had us padlock the dumpster.  :thumbdown: :mad2:


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Re: Birth of a Food-Not-Bombs (A Shroomerite's testimony to the richest of waste) [Re: Microcosmatrix]
    #6049993 - 09/11/06 01:34 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

That's great man! I was in Guadalajara of all places and happened to meet some mexican anarchist and socialists (odd combo) that did the FNB thing. Their favorite target was McDonalds, I dont think it was a vegetarian affair there. A friend and I wanted to start dumpster diving but never got the balls. Too bad people have to do this. There should be a free kitchen in every city large enough to cook for all the homeless in a given time in that city.

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Re: Birth of a Food-Not-Bombs (A Shroomerite's testimony to the richest of waste) [Re: dr0mni]
    #6050664 - 09/11/06 04:52 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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dr0mni said:
I'm sorry but this is fucking bullshit! These were good people, willing to work just to survive, but the nature of our Must-have-transportation economy makes it impossible for us to form a self-sufficient community. So what happens when you destroy cheap housing and build million dollar condos on top of it, make it impossible for poor people to buy food, and refuse to provide shelter for those who are displaced by the system? Well you get Food Not Bombs feeding homeless Vets in your pretty landscaped parks.





Apparently they aren't willing to work since they're out eating the garbage you carried them. If they are "willing" to work then they should go out and get jobs and buy their own food. Just because they say they are Vets doesn't mean that they are, and the military has it's share of shitbags and eventually they get out.

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Re: Birth of a Food-Not-Bombs (A Shroomerite's testimony to the richest of waste) [Re: snoopaloop53]
    #6053429 - 09/12/06 01:06 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

one man I was talking to, nicknamed "Cornbread" told me he was a ground sniper in Vietnam. I asked him if he was working right now. He said no. I asked "Is it that you can't work, or you choose not to?" he said "I would work if I could, but it's the transportation!"

Lets face it guys, you need a car to get a job, and you need a job to pay for a car. Public transportation is really shitty in Tampa Bay, and when you have no safe place to sleep at night, you will probably be pretty hesitant to travel acrossed town, into strange territory for a job that pays less than slave wages.

Besides, why SHOULD they work when an entire community can survive off of stuff that people throw away!?

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Re: Birth of a Food-Not-Bombs (A Shroomerite's testimony to the richest of waste) [Re: dr0mni]
    #6062883 - 09/14/06 09:40 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Dumpster diving is a legitimate career.

Maybe you could give these people a ride to "work" i.e dumpster diving. (or some actual employment type "job")


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Re: Birth of a Food-Not-Bombs (A Shroomerite's testimony to the richest of waste) [Re: dr0mni]
    #6063151 - 09/14/06 11:08 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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dr0mni said:
one man I was talking to, nicknamed "Cornbread" told me he was a ground sniper in Vietnam. I asked him if he was working right now. He said no. I asked "Is it that you can't work, or you choose not to?" he said "I would work if I could, but it's the transportation!"

Lets face it guys, you need a car to get a job, and you need a job to pay for a car. Public transportation is really shitty in Tampa Bay, and when you have no safe place to sleep at night, you will probably be pretty hesitant to travel acrossed town, into strange territory for a job that pays less than slave wages.




But the real question is: What are they doing each and every day?

If it takes you 2 hours to walk to work each way, but that's the only way you can make ends meet, then guess what: you walk 2 hours to work each way.

I took a break from college 2 years ago and decided to try working, only I began in a part of New Jersey where the transportation was really bad. I had no car, and so I had to walk for 1 hour to work every morning, and most nights (because I was tired from working) it would take closer to 90 minutes to walk home. I could have taken a better job, where I would have had to walk farther, but I was often too tired, so I settled for less pay and less walk. But that's the point: I made appropriate decisions based upon my situation. When I wasn't happy with it, I began saving and looking into school loans so that I could change my situation. It wasn't easy, and it took a lot of time.

But I did it, because that's what people do. And once I made enough money, I moved. I now live in a city with public transportation because I knew I wouldn't have a car, and I made choices accordingly.

If you know you don't have a car: What are you doing in an area where you cannot survive without one? And more importantly, if you don't have a job, and you are unhappy with your situation: What are you doing to make it better?

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Re: Birth of a Food-Not-Bombs (A Shroomerite's testimony to the richest of waste) [Re: dr0mni]
    #6063168 - 09/14/06 11:14 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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Let me tell you what they picked out of no more than two separate dumpsters. It was enough food to feed around a dozen homeless people, and twenty hungry activists, and there were STILL LEFT OVERS!!! And this was not rotten food people, this was GOOD FOOD! Many of the folks there said the veggie stew was some of the best they'd ever had! Donated clothes and blankets were offered for free.




My aunt quit the local day shelter where she would cook 3 meals a day for the local needy.

They cut funding and put harder restrictions on the shelter.

Sad to say but lawyers are to blame for everything.. Some homeless man gets sick eating food eaten for free at a community outreach center and he gets $100,000K because his life was worth sooo much to begin with the day he ate the free food.

I work in the grocery business and we throw away about $10,000 worth of food EVERY DAY at my store alone. We HAVE to throw it away because local laws forbid us to donate the good food to the needy..

We do use things up till the time they either cant be sold or till the expiration date but still I buy this shit all the time, expired or not I know its still good and I eat it often..

Only bakery goods are given away at about $500 a day with a tax write off. These can only be day old and only some bakery goods are approved..

You should check out http://www.fsbookco.com/ARTSCIENCE.html
The are and science of dumpster diving


Great book I read years ago..

Food and waste in the US is outrageous..


I like to use the example of what goes on daily in the seafood department at your local grocery store..

Seafood comes packed in ice and once we unload the seafood we are stuck with the ice.. We will then use water to melt the ice.


Some places on the planet have NO WATER and we are using water to melt ice in order to get rid of it faster...

I love telling people that just to see their reaction.


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Re: Birth of a Food-Not-Bombs (A Shroomerite's testimony to the richest of waste) [Re: GabbaDj]
    #6063434 - 09/15/06 12:56 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

I have that book. It's a good one. Dr.Omni should read it. He could be feeding alot of the waste not fit for human consumption to farm animals and then eating the animals.

I like what FNB does, but I think it's silly to rule out all meat products.


Oh, and fuck lawyers.


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Re: Birth of a Food-Not-Bombs (A Shroomerite's testimony to the richest of waste) [Re: Economist]
    #6063436 - 09/15/06 12:58 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Not everybody is as physically/mentally fit as your typical college student.


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Re: Birth of a Food-Not-Bombs (A Shroomerite's testimony to the richest of waste) [Re: Baby_Hitler]
    #6065906 - 09/15/06 07:21 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Let's build death camps for the bums and gas them all.

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