Welcome to planet B neighbor.

Shedrack Erugo
2 min readMay 6, 2024

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“Finish the food on your plate; some people go to bed hungry.” Mama’s words, echoing through time, resonate more profoundly than ever in a world where millions suffer while we squander abundance. Tossing out food isn’t just wasteful; it’s self-inflicted harm akin to shooting oneself in the foot and wondering where the pain comes from.

Sharing food isn’t just an act of kindness; it’s a lifeline for our planet. Every morsel diverted from landfills alleviates environmental degradation, conserves precious resources, and combats the relentless march of climate change.

Climate variability threatens global food security, jeopardizing agricultural productivity with its unpredictable shifts in temperature, precipitation patterns, and extreme weather events. The consequences are dire: disrupted food delivery, soaring prices, and spoilage-contamination, and compromised crop yields.

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What we do at Chefefeed is enable you to make this change yourself, a change for your environment, a change that enables you to have unlimited access to food at any time. Through our platform, you not only gain access to affordable or free food but also become an integral part of a sustainable cycle of giving and receiving. By sharing your surplus, you not only reduce waste but also forge connections within your community, strengthening the bonds that sustain us all.

It’s important to understand that this is a sustainable cycle. We cannot afford to do nothing because climate change will leave us vulnerable; more hungry people, limited supply, and surplus waste. This is why surplus food redistribution is one of the main ways to keep ourselves fed.

Sharing on Chefefeed not only reduces food waste and climate change. You build relationships, a community, and genuine connections, especially with the way our platform is built. It’s built to encourage community building considering the disconnection around the world.

Join Chefefeed now, and you’ll never be hungry and lonely again.

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Shedrack Erugo

A medical doctor and cofounder Chefefeed. And this is my journal; musings, opinions, rantings, short stories, and sometimes poems too.#scrappywriting