http://secondbite.org/secondbite-reports

SecondBite exists to provide access to fresh, nutritious food for people in need across Australia. We do this by rescuing and redistributing surplus fresh food, building community capacity in food skills and nutrition and advocating for an end to food insecurity.
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SecondBite’s Research, under the guidance of our Food Security Advisory Committee, contributes knowledge towards a food secure Australia – a place where everyone has a seat at the table.
Every day we measure our impact, track our processes and investigate how we can best serve our community food programs and people in need. In 2011 the Premier of Victoria launched SecondBite’s first report in a research series ‘Food Rescue. A Fresh Approach’. Since that time SecondBite’s research interests have continued to grow and in 2012 our first research scholarship was awarded to enable a PhD candidate at Deakin University to explore food insecurity and poverty – this scholarship was an Australian first. Guest-lectures at the University of Melbourne, public health conferences and work through our research and community networks enables our research findings to be shared widely.
Our agenda for action-research continues to ensure our food rescue and education programs are evaluated and we continue to expand our knowledge of long-term preventative solutions to food insecurity.

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SecondBite redistributes surplus fresh food to community food programs around Australia. Food is donated by farmers, wholesalers, markets, supermarkets, caterers and events. This high-quality surplus food is redistributed to community food programs that support people who are homeless, women and families in crisis, youth at risk, indigenous communities, asylum seekers and new arrivals.

Good.

Sounds worthy. No religion involved apparently.

> We do this by rescuing and redistributing surplus fresh food

It might be a surprise to many people how much this is already being done. By the way “fresh” is a bit of an exaggeration.

mollwollfumble said:

> We do this by rescuing and redistributing surplus fresh food

It might be a surprise to many people how much this is already being done. By the way “fresh” is a bit of an exaggeration.

+1

wasn’t woolies going to release a range of fruit and veg called ugly fruits? basically the fruits and veg that don’t fit the ‘norm’ (two legged carrots, deformed oranges, apples that aren’t perfeectly round… that sort of thing) to eliminate waste and provide a ‘cheaper’ alternative

Arts said:

wasn’t woolies going to release a range of fruit and veg called ugly fruits? basically the fruits and veg that don’t fit the ‘norm’ (two legged carrots, deformed oranges, apples that aren’t perfeectly round… that sort of thing) to eliminate waste and provide a ‘cheaper’ alternative

I don’t know, where they?

yes they were, but they called it Odd Bunch

Arts said:

yes they were, but they called it Odd Bunch

That was vey quick, had you prepared that earlier, perhaps as a surprise for the morrow?

:)

I don’t know, where they?

in the fruit and veg section probably.

ChrispenEvan said:

I don’t know, where they?

in the fruit and veg section probably.

Bugger, off all the people to pick that up, it had to be U.

I’ll never here the end of my lost apostrophe now.

sibeen said:

ChrispenEvan said:

I don’t know, where they?

in the fruit and veg section probably.

Bugger, off all the people to pick that up, it had to be U.

I’ll never here the end of my lost apostrophe now.

I saw what you did there.

sibeen said:

ChrispenEvan said:

I don’t know, where they?

in the fruit and veg section probably.

Bugger, off all the people to pick that up, it had to be U.

I’ll never here the end of my lost apostrophe now.

No, you bugger off!

Shebs don’t make Boris angry… you don’t want to see him angry

Arts said:

Shebs don’t make Boris angry… you don’t want to see him angry

It’s rather obvious that I don’t want to see him at all :)

oh burn

and by the way, this is a really good program