{"id":62153,"date":"2016-09-08T00:09:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T07:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=62153"},"modified":"2016-09-08T00:09:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T07:09:58","slug":"wefood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/62153","title":{"rendered":"WeFood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tDenmark is doing it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62154\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62154\" class=\"wp-image-62154\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/denmark-406180_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-62154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Witizia via Pixabay<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, and so should we &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We \u2026 what?<\/p>\n<p>WeFood.<\/p>\n<p>Have I tied you in knots?<\/p>\n<p>Just keeping you on your toes (wink).<\/p>\n<p>In all seriousness, though, Denmark started something good this year, and it\u2019s called WeFood\u2014the country\u2019s first surplus food supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Denmark, 700,000 tons of food end up in the trash each year. At the same time, 795 million people suffer from hunger worldwide,\u201d reports \u00a0DanChurchAid, the hunger fighting non-profit behind WeFood. \u201cWeFood sells goods that regular supermarkets can no longer sell due to overdue \u2018best before\u2019 dates, incorrect labels, or damaged packaging. The products found in WeFood are still edible and safe to consume, according to the Danish food legislation, but have simply lost their value to the partner donating them. WeFood\u2019s range of products varies from day to day, depending on the donations on each particular day. It is mainly food products sold at a significant discount of 30 to 50 percent of the market price.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62155\" style=\"width: 369px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62155\" class=\"wp-image-62155\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/42_4_kg_of_food_found_in_New_Zealand_household_rubbish_bins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"234\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-62155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Love Food Hate Waste NZ via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>DanChurchAid uses the proceeds from WeFood to combat famine in impoverished countries like South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2016\/02\/29\/468301837\/denmarks-new-grocer-is-selling-expired-food-and-its-a-hit\"><u>NPR \u201cFood for Thought\u201d article<\/u><\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denmark is doing it. It? Yes, and so should we &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/62153\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift_for_gab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}