Tristram Stuart

1977 (age 32)

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

He is the author of The Bloodless Revolution: Radical Vegetarians and the Discovery of India (Harper Collins Limited, 2006) published in the United States as The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism From 1600 to Modern Times (World War Norton, 2007). He is a regular contributor to newspapers, and radio and television programs in the United Kingdom, United States and Europe on the subject of food, the environment and freeganism. He lives in England and in December 2009 launched a food waste campaign by organising "Feeding the 5000" in London"s Trafalgar Square in which 5,000 people were served free curry, smoothies and fresh groceries from cast off vegetables and other food that otherwise would have been wasted to raise awareness for reducing food waste. He founded the charity Feedback which has replicated the Feeding the 5000 campaign and event model in several countries and has now been commissioned by the European Commission and the United Nations Environment Programme (United Nations Environment Programme) to spread the campaign globally. Other campaigns by Feedback include The Pig Idea and the Gleaning Network. Stuart spoke at the We are federal up!-demonstrations together with 30,000 other people in January 2014 in Berlin. In May 2012, Stuart presented a TED talk entitled "The Global Food Waste Scandal".

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Trinity Hall.

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He is the author of The Bloodless Revolution: Radical Vegetarians and the Discovery of India (Harper Collins Limited, 2006) published in the United States as The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism From 1600 to Modern Times (World War Norton, 2007). He is a regular contributor to newspapers, and radio and television programs in the United Kingdom, United States and Europe on the subject of food, the environment and freeganism. He lives in England and in December 2009 launched a food waste campaign by organising "Feeding the 5000" in London"s Trafalgar Square in which 5,000 people were served free curry, smoothies and fresh groceries from cast off vegetables and other food that otherwise would have been wasted to raise awareness for reducing food waste.

He founded the charity Feedback which has replicated the Feeding the 5000 campaign and event model in several countries and has now been commissioned by the European Commission and the United Nations Environment Programme (United Nations Environment Programme) to spread the campaign globally.

Other campaigns by Feedback include The Pig Idea and the Gleaning Network. Stuart spoke at the We are federal up!-demonstrations together with 30,000 other people in January 2014 in Berlin.

In May 2012, Stuart presented a TED talk entitled "The Global Food Waste Scandal".

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In 2011 Tristram Stuart won the international environmental Sophie Prize and the "Observer Food Monthly Outstanding Contribution Award" for his ongoing campaign to solve the global food waste scandal. Stuart read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and won the Betha Wolferstan Rylands prize and the Graham Storey prize. His directors of studies were Peter Holland and John Lennard. His second book Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal (Penguin, 2009. World War Norton, 2009) has been translated into several languages and won the IACP Cookbook Award for Literary Food Writing.

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Sophie Prize the Betha Wolferstan Rylands prize