page_title: Food rescue
section_title: Feeding animals
hierarchical_section_title: Food rescue / Food reuse strategies / Feeding animals
caption_attribution_description: English: Chickens enjoying stale cereal, mushy peppers, and wilted broccoli
context_page_description: Food rescue, also called food recovery or food salvage, is the practice of gleaning edible food that would otherwise go to waste from places such as restaurants, grocery stores, produce markets, or dining facilities and distributing it to local emergency food programs.
  The recovered food is edible, but often not sellable. Products that are at or past their "sell by" dates or are imperfect in any way such as a bruised apple or day-old bread are donated by grocery stores, food vendors, restaurants, and farmers markets. Other times, the food is unblemished, but restaurants may have made or ordered too much or may have good pieces of food that are byproducts of the process of preparing foods to cook and serve. Also, food manufacturers may donate products that marginally fail quality control, or that have become short-dated.
  Organizations that encourage food recovery, food rescue, sharing, gleaning and similar waste-avoidance schemes come under the umbrella of food banks, food pantries or soup kitchens.
context_section_description: Many animals can eat food scraps. Some farmers, solid waste collectors and recycling centers collect discarded food.
caption: Chickens eating food that would otherwise end up in the garbage
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