Join the WSU Pullman Common Reading Program for a screening of the documentary Just Eat It on Wednesday, Feb. 12, at 4 p.m. in Todd 216. This 2014 documentary follows the six-month experiment of filmmakers Jenny Rustemeyer and Grant Baldwin to eat only foods that otherwise would have been thrown away. Their dive into issues of food waste take them from farm, through retail, all the way to the back of their own fridge. Described by the Los Angeles Times as equal parts “funny, shocking, fascinating,” this film explores the disturbing contradictions that Americans throw away nearly 40% of the food in our food system, even as we devour countless cooking shows, culinary magazines, and food blogs — and, more importantly, as 18 million U.S. households are food insecure.
This film is being screened as part of the Common Reading’s year-long focus on issues of food and food insecurity to complement use of Priya Fielding-Singh’s book How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America. For more about the program and upcoming events see commonreading.wsu.edu.
