“Food is health, food is life.” -Jasmine Crowe
On March 3rd, 2020 in my MSCM 2400 class, our class watched a TED Talk hosted by Jasmine Crowe, an NCCU alumna dedicated to helping solve the challenge of world hunger. Jasmine Crowe is a very accomplished woman, and she shared during her TED Talk some statistics regarding world hunger, and what she was doing to help solve it. Globally, about 1/9 people our hungry, however, our food waste is currently higher than ever, often filling up landfills and releasing harmful chemical into the atmosphere when it begins to rot (methane gases). Therefore, Jasmine Crowe put together a few things to help contribute to the cause.
One of these things that she created was a pop-up restaurant that allowed homeless people to “dine with dignity” and it was called Super Soul Kitchen. She was also able to design an app that worked with big organizations with excess food waste, and transported said food waste to hungry people in need. This app also provides these corporations with a tax break based on how much they donate. This gives these large companies an incentive to donate and I’m sure that this contributed to how much food waste she has been able to collect and transport to hungry people. In 2016, France actually passed a law that made it illegal for supermarkets to waste food, or they will get fined.
Jasmine Crowe stated that making a change can not only help reduce food waste, but it can also increase school attendance as well as reduce certain health cases. She used the phrase “food is health, food is life,” which I thoroughly agree with, because a lot can be affected based on the food that we eat. It was very nice to see Jasmine Crowe’s TED Talk, because I was able to see an NCCU student in real life that went off after graduation and made a name for herself. That being said, I found Crowe’s TED Talk to be inspiring, and I’m glad that Professor Chambers showed it to our class.
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