Environmental activist Robin Greenfield is stirring up a debate over who gets access to food growing in public spaces.
What happened?
In an Instagram reel, Greenfield (@robin.greenfield) says collecting and foraging for wild food in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park is against the law. However, he notes that this policy feels out of step with common sense.
He purposefully showed himself “joyfully eating” an invasive mustard plant despite it being “technically illegal” to do so.
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He explained that “if you ask any of the park rangers here, and you share that, ‘This is a plant that’s considered invasive. Millions of taxpayer dollars are being spent to literally remove this plant’ … almost every single one is going to say, ‘We have no problem with that whatsoever.'”…