Here’s the message and petition from my great friends at Change.org:
Trader Joe’s prides itself on being popular — because it is. “Your neighborhood grocery store” has hundreds of stores around the country. Hip, cool stores with a great selection of organic foods and employees who wear cheerful Hawaiian shirts. But Trader Joe’s isn’t actually doing all it can to be a good neighbor. There’s one thing Trader Joe’s refuses do for its customers and their communities: stop wasting food. Every night, Trader Joe’s throws away healthy, edible food rather than donate it to homeless shelters and food pantries, contributing to a huge, nationwide problem with food waste – a 96-billion-pounds-per-year problem. That’s why Jeremy Seifert, maker of the award-winning documentary “Dive!” about food waste, started a Change.org petition to call on Trader Joe’s CEO Dan Bane, VP of Marketing Matt Sloan, and public relations director Allison Mochizuki to address their company food waste policy. In scenes from “Dive!” Jeremy shows Trader Joe’s dumpsters full of food — a dozen eggs thrown away because one was cracked, a crate of bananas tossed because of a few brown spots, intact packages of fresh spinach stacked in the trash — and says, “it’s about more than not wasting food. It’s about making sure everyone has enough to eat.” Pushing progressive grocery chains like Trader Joe’s to institute company-wide zero-waste policies is the first step toward cutting into food waste overall. By adding your name to his Change.org petition, you’re helping Jeremy get Trader Joe’s attention — and taking a step toward what he describes as “a world of empty dumpsters, good food in full bellies, and regular people leading sustainable lives”: http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-trader-joes-to-stop-wasting-food Thanks for taking action, - Patrick and the Change.org team |
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