Food Not Bombs: How to Feed the Hungry and Build Community - Softcover

Butler, C. T. Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865712395 ISBN 13: 9780865712393

Publisher: New Society Publishers, 1992

Synopsis

Food Not Bombs offers detailed advice, drawn from hundreds of Food Not Bombs groups across the world, on collecting free, fresh food; cooking simple, nutritious, delicious meals; turning mealtime into a political event; and dealing with local governments, media, and neighbors.

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Review:

Try to swallow these morsels-
l The world produces enough food to feed everyone. The problem isn't scarcity, it's distribution.
l The money spent by the world on weapons in one week is enough to feed all the people on Earth for a year!

FNB's goal is to distribute food to the needy, and to provide the information and recipes necessary to set up a Food Not Bombs service in your community. Founded by a small group of friends and activists with the vision of providing food for the hungry, they collect and distribute edible, recoverable food that is thrown away (surplus food). The book supplies all the ingredients: a 7-step process to get food operation up and running; a cookbook; personal stories by the activists; the politics of expression and enactment (clues to avoid a potentially violent encounter with the police or the politicians); and even form letters, logos and flyers copy-ready. Food Not Bombs is forever embroiled in a front-line battle with the political cavalry. The obstacles that FNB faces are formidable and should serve as catalysts to move more of us to action, and reaction. With this bible in everyone's hands, there will be no need for hand-outs, panhandlers, hand-shakers or hand-cuffers. -- From The WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women; review by SH

About this edition

• Publisher: New Society Publishers
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0865712395
• ISBN 13: 9780865712393
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Illustrator: McHenry Keith