Home with the day's finds, sept.28, 2009Bon Appetit!!!!!!
Welcome in, don't be afraid!!!!City Livs, Mariehamn, Åland, Nov 18, 2009
City Livs, Mariehamn, Åland, Nov 18, 2009Now for what i have documented during the past two and a half months here on Åland.
Åland is a small swedish speaking archipelago with 27000 inhabitants, one of the wealthiest societies in the world, an autonomous part of Finland, located in the baltic sea @the 60th parallel between Estonia, Finland and Sweden.
So i find it especially incredible that in such a small place there is so much waste already, if one would extrapolate to all the millions of people who are served their food by supermarket, we must assume that indeed, incredible amounts are wasted anually. And a lot of the containers are loocked or only accessible from the inside of the shops, so that no one can use the food, it all gets driven to a landfill, since often not even the employees are allowed to take home anything.
During my recent bike trip from Germany,
here some pictures from before the trip from a Alnatura Bio Supermaket in my hometown Frankfurt am Main,
via Switzerland and back to Germany, my best friend from switzerland and I,
here he is shown behind a shop in a Bavarian town along the Danube river, eating dessert with organic cheese in Hand,
We frequently and randomly swung our bikes past the backside of supermarkets.
here some pictures from before the trip from a Alnatura Bio Supermaket in my hometown Frankfurt am Main,
via Switzerland and back to Germany, my best friend from switzerland and I,
here he is shown behind a shop in a Bavarian town along the Danube river, eating dessert with organic cheese in Hand,
We frequently and randomly swung our bikes past the backside of supermarkets.
Austria, was still a dumpsterdiver's Paradise,
while there was a sudden and sharp drop of goods found all through Slovakia, Poland and the Baltic Republics.
Nowhere except Germany and Austria was the diving as good as here in Åland.
while there was a sudden and sharp drop of goods found all through Slovakia, Poland and the Baltic Republics.
Nowhere except Germany and Austria was the diving as good as here in Åland.
In all the baltic republics, and Poland and Slovakia, after the fall of communism, and the nonexistent large western style super markets with overfilled shelves, that vaccum of lacking such stores was quickly filled by large foreign western european chains from France, Germany and England, and never on these thousands of km did i find an unlocked food dumpster, though I must assume that these shops have the same wastage rates known to the industry as "part of the game" as anywhere else where they don't bother to look the dumpsters.
One positiv exeption were some, though few chains in Germany. They display prominently by the entrance, that they are supporting "Die Tafel" (transl: The Table), and organisation collecting such foods for the needy and homeless, who can come and get a bag full of groceries for some symbolic sum. But here in Åland, there are probably only well-off people (my observation), who would mostly frown upon food from the compost bin, hahahaha.
And who i have frequently observed at the local recycling centers, throwing away incredible amounts of usefull stuff, not even bothering to find new users for them, or placing such items in the shelves of the shareing sheds at these depots, so that others can have them later, and t
hey 
won't be crushed or destroyed by weather.
One positiv exeption were some, though few chains in Germany. They display prominently by the entrance, that they are supporting "Die Tafel" (transl: The Table), and organisation collecting such foods for the needy and homeless, who can come and get a bag full of groceries for some symbolic sum. But here in Åland, there are probably only well-off people (my observation), who would mostly frown upon food from the compost bin, hahahaha.
And who i have frequently observed at the local recycling centers, throwing away incredible amounts of usefull stuff, not even bothering to find new users for them, or placing such items in the shelves of the shareing sheds at these depots, so that others can have them later, and t
hey 
won't be crushed or destroyed by weather.Here a picture of my trusty cruiser on Kumlinge in mid September 2009, where i found 80 aluminum
cans @ €0.15 each nicely packed in boxes. Took it to the next shop and got approx. €12 Euro out of that. That bought me 4 kg of local organic/ekological wheat flour, a jar of local åland honey and some chocolate.
This picture collection is by no means complete, because i didn't take pictures every time i went diving, but given with dates and location should give you a good idea in the amount of waste produced.
I have only collected food from a few shops, whose dumpsters were easily accessible, not locked, like in about half the other shops in Mariehamn.
My Main sources were thus:
1. City Livs in Downtown Mariehamn
2. Kantarellen in Jomala
3. Matthishallen in Downtown Mariehamn
2. Kantarellen in Jomala
3. Matthishallen in Downtown Mariehamn
Feeling inspired already!?
Start by getting on your bicycle perferably and by
getting yourself some paper shopping bags from the nearest recycling container. People throw them away in perfectly good shape by the thousands, somehow it doesn't occur to most consumers that they could simply be emptied of the newspapers delivered to the recycling depot and taken to shop once more, or to dumpstershopping!
Kantarellen, Jomala, Sept 16, 2009 and Kantarellen, Sept 25, 2009
some of the most amazing finds were (location by number, see above in Brackets (No:)):
20 Fairtrade pineapples, where only the leaves had begun to dry up(1.)
6 Fairtrade pineapples on another occasion (1.)
Hey, you think I'm a freak!??
Try my smoothies!!!
6 Fairtrade pineapples on another occasion (1.)
Hey, you think I'm a freak!??
Try my smoothies!!!
@round 20-30 kg organic bananas (2.), yellow, in top shape, perhaps they were radioactively contaminated, an invisible to me damage, for i couldn't see a good reason why they were in the compost bin.
Me and my friend peeled a lot of them and froze them for use in smoothies
Me and my friend peeled a lot of them and froze them for use in smoothies
Kantarellen Oct. 14, 2009
even a can of organic coconut milk, not out of date, merely dented, could be found
at Mathis-Hallen Sept 25th
loads of excellent, perfectly firm avocadoes, (1.) later went into some excellent guacamole
City Livs, Sept 27, 2009
a whole tray of crème fraîche (1.), one of four discarded trays, the bottom one of which was still good for another three weeks, was thrown out, along with the three outdated ones
City Livs, Sept 24, 2009
City Livs, Sept 27, 2009
a whole tray of crème fraîche (1.), one of four discarded trays, the bottom one of which was still good for another three weeks, was thrown out, along with the three outdated ones
City Livs, Sept 24, 2009
City Livs, Oct 5, 2009
City Livs Oct 27, 2009
Kantarellen Oct 29, 2009
always loads of dairy products (1./2./3.),
Kantarellen, Oct 14, 2009
Kantarellen, Oct 23, 2009
sometimes as much as hundred liters of milk,
or many yoghurts, filmjölk, cottage cheese, local åland butter (where the packaging was pushed in from a fall to the floor, otherwise fresh and impeccable
or many yoghurts, filmjölk, cottage cheese, local åland butter (where the packaging was pushed in from a fall to the floor, otherwise fresh and impeccable
Kantarellen Oct 18, 2009
Of all this i tried to high grade the lot, taking mostly organic and fair trade items, for that is the real food, while the rest is the poisoned and processed stuff most people feel comfortable in sticking into their bodies just like the bogus flu vaccinations...........see for yourself........
the facts are out there hidden in "plain view"
the facts are out there hidden in "plain view"
http://www.infowars.com/superstar-cbs-reporter-blows-the-lid-off-the-swine-flu-media-hype-and-hysteria/
http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/japvaxautism/
for more flu info go here:
http://vaccinemadness.blogspot.com/
Other items, aubergines, zuccini, loads of cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, basil, loads of carrots, broccoli, fennel, loads of potatoes, occasionally ripe perfect mangoes(2.)
City Livs, Oct 26, 2009
City Livs, Oct 26, 2009
Kantarellen Sept 16, 2009
Mathis-Hallen Sept 25 2009
Kantarellen Sept 28, 2009
Kantarellen, Oct 2, 2009
City Livs Oct 5, 2009
City Livs Oct 5, 2009
If you have cats and dogs, there ain't a shortage of meat or even fish
However i don't eat meat, unless invited and it is organic, but since i have no hunting instinct, and prefer fruit over anything else, i go for the fresh and still alive stuff, namely fruit, which was meant by nature to be eaten by someone else, to spread their seeds.....
all at Kantarellen Sept 18 and Oct 23, 2009
all at Kantarellen Sept 18 and Oct 23, 2009
Here a video about the treatment of animals,
EARTHLINGS is a feature length documentary about humanity's absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research) but also illustrates our complete disrespect for these so-called "non-human providers." The film is narrated by Academy Award nominee Joaquin Phoenix (GLADIATOR) and features music by the critically acclaimed platinum artist Moby .
http://www.earthlings.com/earthlings/video-full.php
or go here to have the film available in at least 20 different languages
http://veg-tv.info/Earthlings
Earthlings from Stephan L. on Vimeo.
I find it very troubling how these other earthlings are treated by us humans and how even their remains, after living a life in a concentration camp, pumped full with hormones and drugs, and killed in the most inhumane ways, apart from how pets and animals are used for research,
and how we, by throwing away their flesh pay so little respect to the beings who gave their lives in order to feed so many of us! Honor them! Feel what they might feel. End their suffering.
That's your power as the consumers, we are the majority, and we can rule!
There are other foods than meat, for many of us they are even more healthy.
The production of meat requires enormous amounts of water and fossil fuels, and grains and other plants that need to be grown only to be mostly lost down the metabolic chain.
10 kg of grain and grasses make approx 1 kg of meat!!!!
and then 10 kg of that make one kg of us!
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