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The Delicious Potential of Rescuing Wasted Food | Jasmine Crowe-Houston | TED

What if solving hunger isn’t about growing more food but wasting less of it? Social entrepreneur Jasmine Crowe-Houston has made that idea her mission with Goodr, a platform that reroutes surplus food to people in need. In conversation with journalist and “TED Radio Hour” host Manoush Zomorodi, she shares how a viral moment led to…

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What if solving hunger isn’t about growing more food but wasting less of it? Social entrepreneur Jasmine Crowe-Houston has made that idea her mission with Goodr, a platform that reroutes surplus food to people in need. In conversation with journalist and “TED Radio Hour” host Manoush Zomorodi, she shares how a viral moment led to a nationwide effort to fix the food waste problem. (Recorded at TEDNext 2024 on October 22, 2024)

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27 Comments

  1. @DARKKINGGAMER12

    July 20, 2025 at 11:04 am

    1st

  2. @maje9448

    July 20, 2025 at 11:12 am

    complainant

  3. @aesthetic1609-k

    July 20, 2025 at 11:13 am

    Please can I get a pin ❤😢

  4. @SyddG

    July 20, 2025 at 11:17 am

    Not all, but a lot of grocery stores will tamper/make inedible their unsold food to prevent people from recovering the food in the dumpsters for free. It’s as if they believe that ruining that free food will force those “dumpster divers” to purchase food in the store. Capitalist rot.

  5. @javihdpollard

    July 20, 2025 at 11:19 am

    Kavitat network

  6. @nicholasgeorge4156

    July 20, 2025 at 11:31 am

    Where I work there’s tons of food that HAVE to be thrown out. Gotta throw it out to meet the shrink or claim quota. Whatever reason that is 🙄 so dumb. Even if something is just fine. Just open or missing one from a 12 pack we still can’t take it home. Very rarely store use it for associates. That’s it

  7. @vox.aeternum

    July 20, 2025 at 11:34 am

    This is the best solution for food wase issue that we’ve been figuring out; It is both ethical and beneficial for the company . Similarly, Should the solution be correlated with plastic issue, it may yield further insights; It will not only presents a sound resolution to the pollution caused by plastic, but also opens business opportunity for the company.

    • @BonnieShadow33

      July 21, 2025 at 2:30 pm

      In your opinion, how might this be correlated with the plastics issue?

  8. @ranjith9656

    July 20, 2025 at 11:38 am

    Amazing if it is really as good as it sounds.Although im really skeptical about the consistency of inflow and outflow of food for this to work, this is indeed a great intent

  9. @grantlauzon5237

    July 20, 2025 at 11:53 am

    Hope it works out and can be used throughout the Uni-world.

  10. @Jasonxbr

    July 20, 2025 at 12:07 pm

    Western countries grow and throw a lot of good unused foods based on looks, over supply, etc. Instead of feeding it to its own citizens or sending it to countries with limited food scarcity, it’s rather toss onto landfills rotten away. 😢😢😢😢😢Complete waste of resources from rich countries. 😢 No wonder poorer countries aren’t like us, imagine the wastefulness it would take 5 earth size planets to sustain the amount of input and output. Jesus christ priorities, gluttony and greed.

  11. @messenger101100

    July 20, 2025 at 12:57 pm

    Walmart has so much waste! They could join forces with this program. Win, win! 🙏🏼

  12. @wyntoncolter1067

    July 20, 2025 at 1:56 pm

    This I believe was meant for me to view. The information provided as well as the explanation of the mission to recycle wasted food,safety precautions to ensure those can have somewhat of a variety to their liking. I don’t think food is imagined to be wasted but it does happen. To see steps like this specifically be taken is quite remarkable.

  13. @doubleuenbeeeh

    July 20, 2025 at 3:06 pm

    The sunglasses company?

  14. @dryzalizer

    July 20, 2025 at 3:36 pm

    I’m so glad Jasmine is working to solve this problem. So many of us have known that the current food supply system is broken and wasteful and can be improved, she found the language of business to make it work and get over the legal hurdles.

    • @Project13-f6d

      July 21, 2025 at 5:09 am

      I agree. The current food system is a scam and should be improved.

  15. @felixccaa

    July 20, 2025 at 4:17 pm

    the distance betwen those two is a symbol for US-society

  16. @kotaowens6978

    July 20, 2025 at 4:42 pm

    Are they in Seattle?

  17. @asy9423

    July 20, 2025 at 8:10 pm

    The man who is in the middle keeps kicking his feet😂

  18. @VerumTota

    July 20, 2025 at 11:25 pm

    I am building an app called pantry pal right now that will help with this. It is designed to easily incorporate your existing pantry through receipt scanning and upc scanning as well as adding produce. The ai will automatically give the produce an expiration date and suggest dinner each night based on what is available and what is expiring soon. Making rhe eternal question of whats for dinner automatic.

  19. @juliafay7661

    July 21, 2025 at 12:02 am

    This woman is amazing

  20. @MrJames_1

    July 21, 2025 at 12:44 am

    Do you not have food banks as a normal thing in the US? Just wondering why this amazing person has to do what she’s doing.

    • @CurlyGirly222

      July 21, 2025 at 10:54 am

      Food banks in my area are only allowed to accept sealed/canned items. They cannot accept fresh fruit/veggies/meat due to the possibility of contamination. As if some evil person would inject poison into the fresh items with a syringe.

  21. @GossipHandles

    July 21, 2025 at 2:04 am

    Interesting outlook Jasmine! Thx for the input x

  22. @JD-jl4yy

    July 21, 2025 at 9:32 am

    Food waste is good, actually.

    If we solve food waste, we make the global food supply chain extremely sensitive to major disruptions. No food waste > bigger than COVID or Ukraine war disruption > millions or billions starve. A lot of food waste > we have a buffer and no one starves.

  23. @JaeA-zy9zr

    July 22, 2025 at 10:39 am

    Righteous 🙂

  24. @ericmilliot5807

    July 23, 2025 at 1:52 pm

    badass

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