Growing Local Film Series: Dive! Living off American Waste. Aug 30 at Seaside REP.

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Growing Local Film Series
The Naked Truth About Your Food

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Eat Local 6:30pm
Movie at 7:30pm

This film series is free & open to the public. Showings are the last Tuesday of every month at the Seaside Repertory Theater. And the second Tuesday of the month in collaboration with Artesano Jewelry, 180 Miracle Strip Pkwy SE, Fort Walton Beach, FL.

Every month take a couple of hours off your busy schedule and join us, bring your children, to learn what goes into the food we eat, how it is grown, how it reaches our table and how it affects our health and the environment. Eat Local Potluck Diner before the movie at 6:30pm.

"Dive" Living off American Waste

Grocery stores around the country are filling their dumpsters with food. Not rotten, spoiled food, but billions of pounds of good, edible food. Follow filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and his circle of friends as they dumpster dive in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of L.A.'s supermarkets. In the process, they uncover thousands of dollars worth of good food and an ugly truth about waste in America: grocery stores know they are wasting and most refuse to do anything about it.

Why aren't grocery stores giving the food to people who need it? Seifert takes this question to corporate front offices in an attempt to find out. The result is equal parts entertainment, guerrilla journalism, and call to action. The power of the film lies in its ability to motivate: it will move you to question the manager at your supermarket; it will move you to learn about food waste and the role it plays in your community. In the end, you might even find yourself in a dumpster.

Sponsored by Raw and Juicy and Twin Oaks Farm
Engaging our community about the food we eat