Journal on Dive

           After watching the film Dive I was very surprised of how much food is being wasted by the grocery stores.  I kept thinking of all the people in the world who are going without food.  Couldn’t the grocery stores just give the food away?  There are plenty of charities and organizations that will gladly take the food off their hands.  

           There are so many people struggling today.  The way the economy is with job losses, some families are trying to find jobs just to put food on the table.  It is sad that people have to resort to going through dumpsters to get food.   I think the dumpster diving is a solution to help with that struggling.  I think if I ever was in that situation I would definitely do what is necessary to feed my family.  I wonder what made the people in the video decide to look into dumpsters to see if there was food.   Even more shocking is how some of the grocery stores are locking their dumpsters to keep people from taking the food out and to let it rot.  Rotting food is not good for the environment.

            It got me thinking of how I may be able to help and do for people in this situation. First of all I will pledge to not waste food.  I also want to try to be more aware of what I throw out and start a compost of food scraps, recycle, and watch what I put in the trash that goes to landfills