Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story (2014)

Yet another effective food propaganda documentary, a couple decides to live solely on food waste for six months. It’s next to impossible to watch this film and not want to be more discernable toward throwing away household food. What’s really striking, and feels futile for the everyman to rectify, is the amount of food that is tossed before it is seen by the consumer. The couple soon learned that there was no way they were going to starve but they might get bored from the overabundance they found in one or two items at a time, such as entire dumpsters with hummus. Especially during these Covid-19 times, it’s hard to get passed how rigid our late capitalism systems are, where it’s difficult to fill shortages in one area with surplus from another and the excess becomes waste.