Hungry New Yorkers noshed on 5,000 free meals in Union Square yesterday.
The event, “Feeding the 5,000,” was meant to raise awareness about wasted food and ways to stop global hunger.
BlueHill chef Dan Barber and restaurateur Michael Russell were among the cooks dishing up meals made from fresh Union Square Green Market produce that would otherwise have been thrown away.
International Food Justice Group Feedback organized the event which has been replicated across 30 cities. "We were able to serve exactly 5,000 portions," said Founder Tristam Stuart. "We literally prepped it perfectly."
Stuart is the author of "Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal" and founded Feedback after a one-time London event in 2009 turned into a movement. "We're destroying the environment just by producing food," he said. "This is a way of engaging the public. People are waking up to the problem. A world in which billions go hungry while the planet is dying is a world we can't allow to continue any longer."
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