That reminds me of a quite old doc that kids were expected to watch in schools during my childhood, Island of Flowers (with english subs): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amg08t0TQOY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amg08t0TQOY</a><p>It's about a small river island in Porto Alegre, Brazil (in 1989). Food thrown away would be given to pigs first, and the rest discarded by the animals was scavenged by the poor people living there. It's a pretty intense scene to watch...<p>It's a well known fact (for brazilians, that is) that in Brazil we waste and throw away to much good food but people stopped bothering years ago when some bills passed stating anyone giving/reselling thrown away food to others -- no matter how perfect they were/looked -- could go to jail and pay some fines if anything happened to the consumers of such food.<p>It's quite easy to find fantastic food in street markets or at the back of restaurantes at the end of the day, specially veggies and fruits. That makes projects like food sharing etc extremely difficult.