Name: Aria Isley

Social Justice Group: Food insecurity in NYC (C)

Date of Fieldwork: January 14, 2025

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Chef Eric

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork:

Mabel Lucy and I set up an interview with our head Chef Eric. Eric was talking a lot about how much food waste there is during lunch. he was talking a lot about how kids would put a lots of food on there plates when they wouldn’t even finish it after lunch is over. Having all of that food go to waste is really bad because the food that kids didn’t eat should go to people who need it much more than them. Most of this food waste is coming from our salad bar. kids would be talking more than what they can even eat and then waste it. people should just remember to take what you can eat.

something that I was really surprised about was how much food is being wasted every day at our school. after having this interview with Chef Eric I realized how much food I was putting on my plate at lunch. during our lunch time I noticed kids putting mountains of food on their plates and then watching them throw it all out without even making a dent in it. that just really breaks my heart because that food that they didn’t eat could have gone to someone who needs that food more.