See how the world’s most influential chefs battle food waste through the eyes of chef-heroes like Massimo Bottura, Dan | dG1fQWNWTkZKbjdOZ0k
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00:01When you were first approached about this project, what did you think?
00:04I hated the whole idea of this movie.
00:06It's so serious. I don't even know that we deserve to live.
00:10But as a young cook, I came up in an old-school system,
00:13use everything, waste nothing.
00:17I've actually never thought about what happens to my food when I throw it away.
00:23In the United States, 40% of the food we produce is going to waste.
00:27Food production is the single biggest cause of deforestation.
00:31Water extraction, biodiversity loss.
00:34More and more people are concerned about climate change.
00:36And one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gases is the food that they're throwing away.
00:40We are literally taking food out of the mouths of the hungry
00:44and sending food waste into landfill.
00:46That is crazy.
00:48We don't need to produce more. We need to act different.
00:53What does a chef do?
00:54They take something that's ugly and tough and transform it into something wonderful.
01:00We celebrate utilization of nose to tail for an animal, but rarely for a farm.
01:06None of this typically gets consumed.
01:08That's delicious.
01:09Wow.
01:10That's what I love about waste.
01:11You have to look at it in your kitchen in a different light.
01:13I think we got it.
01:15Flavor's amazing, right?
01:16Mm.
01:17People think it's a garbage fish.
01:18I put it on the menu as Arata Americana.
01:21So you make up a name.
01:22I mean, this is awesome.
01:23Fisherman's wives took this reject fish and they created bouillabaisse.
01:28Prosciutto di parma.
01:29That is a waste-fed fig.
01:31They're not sold as waste.
01:33They're sold as delicious dishes.
01:35We have the power to demand change from the food industry.
01:39Unless we shout about it, they'll never change.
01:43We need to harness people's obsession with food right now.
01:47We're learning from that resourcefulness.
01:49Wow.
01:50Oh my God.
01:51This isn't like the best thing I've ever had.
01:53Ever.
01:54It really does come down to what are our values as society.
01:59You gonna help me cook when we get home?
02:00I'll try and help.
02:02Tackling food waste doesn't need to be depressing.
02:04It's delicious.
02:05It doesn't matter where you are.
02:06It doesn't matter how much money you have.
02:08You can reduce the amount of food waste.
02:10That's exciting.
02:11This is something important.
02:13We can do it.
02:15No one can enjoy the smug self-satisfaction of doing the right thing.
02:18How often do you get to do that?