Eat Beer

How a love of homemade beer led UCLA students Jordan Schwartz and Dan Kurzrock to become leaders in the war against food waste

- Neil Zevnik

When I was growing up, two of my Mom’s favorite aphorisms were, “Waste not, want not” and “Eat everything on your plate—there are starving children in Europe.” Perhaps not surprisingly, both of these sayings are excruciatingly applicable in the here and now. “Waste not, want not” has taken on even greater resonance, moving beyond the concerns of a single household and echoing from today into the future for the food needs of succeeding generations. And substitute “sub-Saharan Africa” for Europe, and the starving children in overwhelming numbers are real and desperate.

The Food Waste Crisis