Dive! Trailer (by CompellerFilms)

Recently noticed this documentary about dumpster diving on Netflix instant and couldn’t get through more than 10 minutes of it.  

First off, watching fairly affluent white, straight, etc people (generally male-identified doing the diving) talk about their posh free dining off of our food system’s “waste” is fucked.  

Second, the moment “hungry people of the world” is uttered a shot of black, presumably African (which MUST mean they are poor and hungry), children is presented. 

Third, how in the hell is dumpster diving really activism or working to create solutions? I would argue it’s the opposite.  You are living off of a wasteful system’s waste and I’m fairly sure you aren’t supporting your local food system and helping it grow.

I could go in on this documentary for much longer but basically: if you want to watch a bunch of privileged people eat perfectly good food from a dumpster but not really create solutions: go watch this.  If you want to look at better versions of dumpster diving, look at the organization City Harvest.