We watched a film about Gleaners last week, prior to that I had never even heard of that word. I thought it was actually very interesting to see a charitable act like letting gleaners pick from farms become a part of culture of the French and certain others in Europe. I didn’t think anyone really cared about whether peasants were able to eat or not. I also agree with the act of gleaning itself, there are so many times in our world that I have seen food be wasted. I am in an extremely poor household and I was taught by my mother to never waste food. Even though my family does not waste food I have seen friends of my family, such as my mother’s best friend and her family be wasteful. They would buy so much food that they end up just throwing out without even opening! it actually annoys me to no end because there are so many countries including our own with starving people who wish they had that food, but they just throw it out. Besides food, I’ve seen plenty of other types of Gleaning happen here in New York City, especially from the elderly. In fact, I’ve seen this old lady come to Queensborough Community College to look through all the trash cans multiple times during my time here. I used to judge her a little in my mind, like why are you looking through all the garbage cans? For bottles? You’re going through all that work to get some money from putting bottles into the machine? But really it’s smart and she probably finds all kinds of useful things besides bottles. Thinking about it, my grandma is the same type of person to glean objects off the street. I can think of times my mother said she has taken a chair or table from off the street. Makes you think really.