The Common Reading Program invites you to its final event of the year, a screening of the film Just Eat It on April 22 from 6:00–7:15 p.m. in CUE 203 on the Pullman campus. The 2014 documentary follows filmmakers and food lovers Jen Rustemeyer and Grant Baldwin as they embark on a six-month challenge to eat only food that is headed to the landfill. Their project both spotlights the enormous volume of food that is thrown away in our society and suggests ways to increase food recovery so that more of the resources that go in to growing, transporting, processing, and marketing food go toward their intended purpose of nourishing people. The documentary is one that the Los Angeles Times describes as equal parts “funny, shocking, fascinating.”
This screening is the last event of a year-long series on the Pullman campus that has featured over sixty talks, workshops, films, and exhibits, all focused on food-related topics that have complemented WSU’s use of Priya Fielding-Singh’s How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America as the university Common Reading. The Common Reading Program extends its sincere thanks to those who have attended, sponsored, co-sponsored, and presented events in this year’s series.
