Real Junk Food Project: The Leeds cafe that has fed
10,000 people, using 20 tonnes of unwanted food – and started a worldwide
movement
The Real Junk Food Project feeds punters on goods
that would otherwise have been thrown away by supermarkets, independent grocers
and food banks.
The founder of a quietly-growing empire of social
cafes has called on a change in the law to prevent the UK’s
"criminal" levels of food waste - especially by supermarkets - while
so many go hungry.
Adam Smith, founder of The Real Junk Food Project,
in Armley, Leeds, feeds his punters on goods that would otherwise have been
thrown away by supermarkets, independent grocers and food banks.
The 29-year-old trained chef cooks up stews,
casseroles, soups and cakes with the unwanted food, charging a “pay as you
feel” policy - allowing punters to pay what they feel they can, and if that is
nothing, they can help with the washing up.
In just 10 months he has fed 10,000 people on 20
tonnes of unwanted food, raising over £30,000.
The cafe has had such resonance in a world with such
high food wastage and high hunger levels it has inspired 47 other "pay as
you feel" cafes to spring in the past few months in Manchester, Bristol,
Saltaire – with the concept even exported as far away as Los Angeles and
Brazil, Warsaw and Zurich.
Whole article:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/real-junk-food-project-the-leeds-cafe-that-has-fed-10000-people-using-20-tonnes-of-unwanted-food-and-9926579.html
These statistics make me really happy and proud of this organsation. I am also so pleased to see that this project in Leeds, demonstrating the city's potential have such a profound national and global impact. This reassures my faith in the cause and makes me excited to be getting involved with it from a creative stance.
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