Description
Write a 1-page, double spaced summary of the documentary DIVE.
Then answer 3 simple questions about the documentary.
Explanation & Answer
Finished product attached. I will be happy to revise it any way you see fit. Thanks. Let me know what you think of it.
‘DIVE!’: A Video Review and Questions
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1. Write a 1-page, double spaced summary of the documentary DIVE!. Include some of the thoughts,
opinions expressed, and facts shared that you found the most profound in your summary.
‘DIVE!’ is an online video documentary which brings to life the startling amount of good,
usable food that is thrown away in dumpsters as waste in the U.S. daily. The video has great live
footage of people dumpster-diving (I’ll use DD for short) to salvage tremendous quantities of
good thrown out mainly by grocery stores. The DD-ers recover nightly amounts of expensive
meat looking to be worth easily $100 – $200, in addition to top-quality vegetables and fruits.
Videographer Jeremy Seifert quantitates in many creative ways the sheer amount of food
waste in the U.S. – which amounts to 93 billion pounds per year and 300 pounds per second.
The video captures a pair of DD-ers who rack up 1 year’s supply of meat in just one week of
late-night foraging. In the U.S., we waste fully half of all the food we produce. 20% of landfill
contents is food, and this is enough to feed the whole U.S.
11 million Americans go hungry each day. The video shows Haitian mud cakes that children
eat because they have hunger pangs. We waste enough food to feed the entire starving nation
of Haiti for 5 years. Edible meat found by DD-ers is saved from a “double waste” since 40% of
grain produced goes to feed livestock raised for meat production. In Los...