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  • We have 42 million Americans

  • that are living food insecure,

  • which means they never know when

  • and where that next meal is coming from.

  • But I believe that this is a solvable problem.

  • I'm Jasmine Crowe, founder and CEO of Goodr.

  • The reality is that one in six Americans

  • are struggling with food insecurity.

  • And it's startling to hear.

  • Every month people have to make a critical decision.

  • They have to choose between paying for bills

  • and paying for food.

  • But hunger is not an issue of scarcity.

  • It's a matter of logistics.

  • Every year in the United States,

  • we waste 72 billion pounds of perfectly good food.

  • Food from the grocery stores that we shop at,

  • the restaurants that we eat at.

  • This is enough food every single day

  • to fill up an entire football stadium.

  • This food ends up in landfills

  • and produces harmful methane gas,

  • a leading contributor to climate change.

  • So we're wasting all of this food.

  • But we have all these people that are going hungry.

  • So we have two problems

  • that can virtually solve each other.

  • When I first moved to Atlanta, Georgia,

  • I drove through downtown,

  • and I saw hundreds of people that were homeless.

  • Something moved me in that moment,

  • and I was like, I want to do something.

  • I didn't have a lot of money,

  • but I knew that I could cook.

  • And so I posted on Facebook, got some volunteers,

  • and went out and started feeding people.

  • And a video of one of my pop-up restaurants went viral,

  • and people were saying, "This is so amazing.

  • Which restaurants donated the food?"

  • And the reality was, none.

  • It got me thinking,

  • why aren't businesses donating this food?

  • So in 2017, I created Goodr,

  • a sustainable food waste management company.

  • We leverage technology to get excess food

  • that would otherwise go to waste

  • right into the hands of people

  • who would otherwise go hungry.

  • We've created a very easy user experience.

  • We simply inventory everything it is that a business sells,

  • so that at the end of the night

  • when they have excess food

  • that would otherwise go to landfill,

  • with the click of a button on an app,

  • they can request a pickup.

  • We get that food delivered right away,

  • within a 5 to 10 mile radius

  • to non-profit organizations and people that need it.

  • Businesses have the opportunity

  • to write off up to 30 percent

  • of their annual income in food donations.

  • They're empowering their community,

  • and they're improving their carbon footprint.

  • If we use the same technology that we've used

  • to propel us forward in so many other areas

  • to solve hunger and solve food waste,

  • we will solve real challenges for real people.

  • Imagine a world where nobody goes to bed hungry,

  • and no food goes to waste.

We have 42 million Americans

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Food waste and hunger are #Solvable | Jasmine Crowe

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    Sandra に公開 2021 年 11 月 02 日
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