"I'm Nathan." "I'm here to do the pick up of vegies, Food Not Bombs," "Food..." "Not..." "Bombs" "Here to pick up the cucumbers from under the crates." "I can show you." "You can have, you can film the load of boxes." "(whistle) 'Put that cucumber down'!" "That's ours." "We take all the leftovers." "The basic philosophy of Food Not Bombs is that everyone, everyone can eat for free if they want." "We have a range, and around the world Food Not Bombs collects leftover food that would normally be thrown out." "We have the support of the markets here, who give us the food that they can't carry over for a couple of days and sell any more, and is still good to use." "And we take that food, and we make organic vegan dishes, um, take that to a street kitchen." "It's a non-exclusive street kitchen, anyone can come and eat." "But it does service the..." "you know, um, they, you know, we serve the homeless you know, and needy very much as well." "There's another Food Not Bombs chapter starting up in Melbourne, and these bastards have come and taken our load." "So what I'm left with is two potatoes, a mandarin, a carrot and a kinda half-rotten cucumber and," "I hope they're not disappointed with it." "I mean there's," "I'm sure there's something we can make with this, and feed about thirty people." "They'll be small portions sure, and maybe we'll need to cook a little bit of rice." "You guys have come on an action-packed day." "We've been accosted by the Vic Market management." "We have cleaning operations after the market, and one of the things we don't discourage is people coming in during the cleaning operations, because we've got machinery, like we've got that, we've got" "forklifts, all sorts happening." "So, I don't know, uh, is, what's part of, what's this story saying?" "So, how's that?" "Opposition." "Opposition all the time from men wielding pens and paperwork." "When you, if you're feeding people for free, there's something wrong with you, there's something wrong with it." "And if you're filming it, you're, you're weird." "We have an agreement with the stalls, and after intense arguments with them, and then having the stall owners come over and speak with the security about it, um, they wouldn't back down." "And now it appears as if security is trying to charge" "Food Not Bombs with trespassing." "Market administration, um, is not aware I guess, of the fact that we have an agreement with three organic stalls in the market to collect food." "OK, usually we probably take back on average I would say, about..." "10, 15 boxes of food." "Here we go, some nice, there's some beautiful tomatoes." "Some snow peas, ah, snow peas." "Everyone can eat for free, and there's, and there's so much misallocation of money through the government to, you know, to arms, and war." "Food Not Bombs in Melbourne I think has existed since about 1996." "We initally started off with just using food that was found, like gleaned from the market, or taken from the trash." "It went alright." "It's not a very good bin mission by far at all." "Um yeah, it may..." "I've seen better." "Yeah, I've seen much, much better." "Um, it's just, it's helped make up for the few boxes of food we didn't get from the markets, don't it?" "For sure." "We're the gleaners, and we've had our stuff gleaned." "We turn, I turn my back and a whole pile of food just went." "That's not normal at all." "So, um, let's just see if it's just been moved or something." "Oh hi." "Any luck?" "Or do you reckon the stuff just got gaffed?" "Yeah, there was like a box or something." "Yeah, nah." "I saw it, I saw it" "(mumbles)...it was just in here." "Fair dinkum." "Oh God, I'm in trouble." "I'm going to have to stop by Coles and buy heaps of stuff." "Don't tell anyone." "Hello, how was that?" "Not too hair-raising an adventure?" "Do you mind taking these off my fingers sir?" "Certainly." "I think eventually an agreement was reached with three organic stalls at the Queen Victoria Market." "All the food that's not going to keep or is, or would otherwise be wasted, is given to Food Not Bombs, and then" "obviously what you see here is what we're, you can cook and other..." "The rest of the food we get is just dropped of to a few places around, in Melbourne, um," "Indigenous boarding houses and crisis centres and" "Collingwood Commission flats, and to the Atherton Estate in Fitzroy." "But Food Not Bombs' history is, I guess, more, in general terms, is like, began about like 1980, through the anti-nuclear movement in Massachusetts, round Boston area." "So I guess you can drive." "I don't need to drive you." "I think it's fantastic." "It's fresh, it's tasty, it's organic." "We know it comes from the Victorian Market." "And it's always very tasty." "You know it's very good for you." "I mean, your body's telling you that, when you eat it." "After you eat it, you don't feel all 'bleh'." "Nah, nah, nah." "It's enlightening I suppose." "It is." "Yeah, it really is." "[Transcribed by Karen Woulfe]"