BATON ROUGE, La. (InvestigateTV) — A Louisiana initiative is collecting food before it gets discarded and converting it into meals for people in need, addressing both food waste and food insecurity in the community.
The Three O’Clock Project, founded by Emily Chatelain after her work with the National School Lunch Program, partners with Executive Chef Jonathan Breaux to rescue food that would otherwise go to landfills.
“We have two big issues here in Baton Rouge. It’s food insecurity and food waste,” Chatelain said. “We take food that would be going to the landfill or is in excess or is about to be thrown away and convert it and our chef makes it into healthy, fresh, nutritious food that goes directly out to those in need.”…