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💬 Living On Food Waste?? My Thoughts On Freeganism + Secret Curry Recipe! 🍛 ~ Kaming Auyeung - YouTube
Channel: Kaming Auyeung
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Before starting this video, I want to say that my
face on my thumbnail looks like I am threatened
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to eat something super smelly and disgusting,
just like 55% of the guys that I met on Tinder
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but that face actually means that I'm super
touched, after eating my homemade curry!
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It's finally food time, I'm so hungry
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Kind of like a lunchtime thing at 2 a.m
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No, not 2 a.m.
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And today, I am going to talk about like freeganism
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because I want to talk about something meaningful and it's kind
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of nice to have like a lunch online together with people like you
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and people that are super lonely like me
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♪ SAD MUSIC ♪
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So anyways, today I am eating this curry rice,
that is made with like leftover curry, it's not
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like the people that already like ate the curry,
but it's like a completely new edible package
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of curry that the previous tenant's leftover
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And also, this thing is also like a raspberry
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yogurt made with coconut cream and it's so good
it's like a vegan organic thing
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I know this is a bit expensive
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but it's like 50% off so that's why
I buy it it's like a food waste thing you know
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♪ WHAT IS FREEGANISM ♪
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If we think about environmentalism or those kinds
of things, we usually think about like veganism or
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vegetarianism or like pescetarianism if that's a word hahahaha
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But freeganism is something that I realized that really kind of fits my values
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Freeganism people
they are vegan or vegetarian if they don't
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the food for free, they usually eat those stuff or
consume those stuff that is considered to be like
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leftover by our society, like for example, in a
supermarket because of overstocking or really
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strict food regulations, they always have to throw
some food that is perfectly fine, that is edible but
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passed the expiration day, that they have to throw everything away
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and that's like super wasteful
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I don't know if that's like a way of
protesting against this kind of food system that
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is not really fair, especially farmers are working
so hard every day to grow our food
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and there are so many people that are starving every day, don't have water
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not even talk about those 50% off food
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but while us, are really just pure luck
to born in countries that can provide you know
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this kind of basic needs as a human, and we just
throw food like that away
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and that's completely crazy
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But now the question is, I still haven't
started my food yet so I should be eating
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AUM
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Hmm ~ so good ~
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♪ WHY FREEGANISM ♪
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So now, you may think like why people do like
this kind of freeganism right
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Like how our society work is just crazy
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Like we just have to consume consume consume %$^%#&^&*#^@
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consume until a point that we just can't live
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anymore if we don't shop
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and that's like super crazy
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I don't know if I've told you like
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If food waste was a country, it would be the third-biggest greenhouse gases emitter
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On this entire planet
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Right after China and the US
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So, you can imagine
how bad it is the situation with food waste
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♪ SHEEP SHOUTING ♪
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♪ HOW TO BE A FREEGAN ♪
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And I think normally people link freeganism with
like dumpster diving, in which I've tried actually
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you know you can't see me I have tried!
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It's like this princessy or like really soft those kind
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of wu
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YEAH ~
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Yeah, I tried and it was really like
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personally, it's not a good experience because I
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got food poisoning and like diarrhea
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But yeah the thing is like, you have to be really really careful about
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Especially in the summer, if the food is like
thrown away like from the supermarket
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and then in those bins
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And then, I think the temperature just
changed the quality of the food, even though it
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looks fine outside and I think the worst thing
is just that, like I've heard that my mom said that
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like in Hong Kong, some supermarket they would rather throw the food away that is like fine
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just past the expiration date, and then they put
like bleach on it, it's just insane you know like how
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Many people are that like starving and dying
every day and then like
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You know they don't even want to help people in need you know
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and I think that's just
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♪ BS SOUND ♪
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And also, you can also join some neighborhood initiatives that
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they share food that, you know, like sometimes you cook too much and then
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and then you can't finish it yourself
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and then you can post on those apps
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they collaborate with restaurants,
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and they really just like make things nicely, and
then you can pick up there at the end of the day
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and then for a really cheap price, you don't have
to dumpster dive
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The easiest way is just like me,
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if you go to the supermarket, you buy things
that cannot be so at the end of the day
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♪ CRITICISM ON FREEGANISM ♪
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And I think there's also some critique to this
kind of freeganism movement is that some really
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strict vegan or vegetarian, they would think that
this is just a way for those like people who
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are not like determined enough to actually go for veganism
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Yeah, I think the way that I look at it is that
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First of all, I think there's like a common
ground for vegetarianism or veganism
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and freeganism
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like this bunch of people want to do something
that is better for the environment
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They just don't buy the idea of how society works right now, especially with our food
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I think that the endpoint is the same, you know like we don't actively buy like animal products
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that obviously has higher greenhouse gases emission
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but the process is just different
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and also when you think about that
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like the truth is, not everybody can be vegan
or vegetarian
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We think about a lot of cultural concerns
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So I think sometimes being a flexitarian
or freegan is more realistic and accessible to
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more people than being really strictly like vegan
or vegetarian, and then point out other people and
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make them feel guilty forever about eating meat
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And I think it's good that we accept or learn to
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be more open-minded about doing the same thing but in different ways
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it's another way to think about that
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Here's the most exciting part, cooking my food waste curry with
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cooking mama that looks like me ~
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Eating rice is my hobby just like many
international people think, so of course i'm going
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to answer that request, make rice
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First, I need to measure how much rice to put into my rice cooker
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is actually the only thing that I measure except for
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♪ BEEP ♪
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By the way, all the rice that is in my kitchen
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now is from people who somehow don't want it
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I think in 2020, I got 10 kilos of free rice
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Yay!
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And then, I should measure how much water I should put in
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but I never do because I'm too lazy to wash
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that wet measuring cup, so we can skip this and i
never wash my rice
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Even though I should, according to the Great Wall of China
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So, we can also skip this step
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Okay, can I just say that who would
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cook rice in microwave? I thought that seeing one
of my host mom who put butter in rice already
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Um... interesting enough...?
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Now, let's make that curry
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normally I will be cutting my veggies but most
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of the leftover vegetables in Dutch supermarket
comes in packages
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and that's a good point to be sarcastic about
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I mean, I don't get why we need to cover a stupid cucumber with a piece of freaking plastic ?
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like, what's the point...
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So in the end, I throw all the whatever vegetables
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that come in the packages in a pan, including
but not limited to garlic, onion, and tomatoes
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I repeat, tomatoes, because they are the husband of curry
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Both ingredients look so good together
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just like how I personally think Robert Pattinson
and Kristen Stewards look so good together
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I still can't get over their breakup since 2012
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Okay, just fry the vegetables until they tell you
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that they have been cooked enough just like in cooking mama, you see
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So let's add some water
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Again, measuring cup is never my thing because I usually use my sixth sense to make curry
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Alright, here is the most important part, add that curry paste
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I also add coconut milk because my housemate had that
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two weeks old opened coconut milk
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For seasoning, I just add salt, soy sauce, pepper, paprika powder
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That's it! Here you go, the best curry in almost no time and no cost
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I usually make upcycling clothes videos, in which I turn trash into class...?
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I also make sustainable lifestyle videos, in which I talk about social and environmental issues
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