Gleaning

**"* M* <B*@verizon.net>**

I just saw an amazing film, "The Gleaners and I," by Agnes Varda, rented

from Netflix.

Varda is a well-known French filmmaker who went out with her handheld video

camera to interview people gleaning in grain fields, potato fields when the

oddly shaped rejects are dumped by the truckload, urban market sites, oyster

beds, vinyards, and more, in various parts of France. It is shocking how

much good food goes to waste there. The huge and unthrifty USA has to be far

worse.

Some gleaners were poor, some were charitable, and some were simply

objecting to waste in a world where people go hungry.

In France, regional laws dating back many centuries still protect the rights

of gleaners but this is changing.

Do our mega farms allow gleaning? Smaller farms? I know there are gleaning

organizations that pick leftovers for food pantries in some regions. Do any

of you have experience with this?

Betty

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