Dion Dawson

But I think also I want to hit on the words you said is intentional.

And I think that what we're seeing is that this system, you know, there is no big focus on really cutting down food waste.

Why?

Because so much of it is written off to prop up emergency food.

So there's money that can still be made or written off from this food that did not go to use.

There's still value there in capitalism.

So you have to be careful because no one's going to turn down millions of dollars and write off just for the sake of saying they did something that was socially good.

So I think really taking a moment to kind of reevaluate what do we want to do?

I understand that there are a lot of organizations out there that try to redirect food waste and prevent food waste.

But I think where we are now with food waste orgs, it's the expectation of millions of pounds.

And if we're expecting this to never change so that this entity that's saving the food can survive, then we're not looking at changing anything.

Because the very survival of this org depends upon the food waste in the millions.

It's a chicken and egg situation, but I feel like it opens the conversation of, well, what are your expectations and what do you really want to do?

The bigger thing is looking at companies that are contributing the most and saying, OK, well, are you planning to get this under control?

Because I don't think that the food system is as fed up as it wants to be or as it thinks it is with food waste.

I just don't think it is.

I think what I will speak on just for a moment is this is a pivotal point.

Not only in world history, but U.S.

history, food zoomed out to, you know, geopolitical, to science, to STEM, to AI.

It's one of those industrial revolution-esque moments.