Stigma is often encountered by recipients who receive food donations from charities, while the consumption of wasted food, also traditionally considered to be a stigmatized practice, has recently become part of a popular food rescue movement that seeks to reduce environmental impacts. These two stigmas—charitable donation and the consumption of waste—are brought together at the Open Table, a community group in Melbourne, Australia, that serves community meals cooked from surplus food. This paper examines how Open Table de-stigmatizes food donations through food waste discourse to enable greater social inclusion. I draw on the experiences of donors, cooks, volunteers and eaters gathered from diverse Open Table sites. Taking a ‘follow-the-thing’ approach, I analyze how food ‘waste’ becomes re-valued by embracing goals of environmental justice enacted through local processes of care and conviviality. Relying on networks of volunteers and not-for-profit agencies, Open Table provides a simple, effective and adaptable model for possible replication for overcoming drawbacks of traditional charity practices. Critically though, as hunger in society continues to grow, this approach is increasingly threatened by the need to ‘single out’ disadvantaged recipients to justify continued supply. This paper contributes to food poverty, waste, and Alternative Food Network literature in two important ways: first, by analyzing the outcomes of community food redistribution approaches with regards to stigma and inclusion; and secondly, by arguing that such holistic approaches need to be acknowledged, valued and supported to shift current discourses and practice.

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通过在开放式餐桌上用餐来克服消费食物垃圾的社会耻辱

接受慈善机构捐赠的食物的接受者经常会受到污名化，而传统上也被认为是一种污名化做法的浪费食物的消费最近已成为旨在减少环境影响的流行食物救援运动的一部分。这两个耻辱——慈善捐赠和浪费垃圾——在澳大利亚墨尔本的一个社区团体 Open Table 中汇集在一起​​，该团体提供用剩余食物烹制的社区餐点。本文探讨了 Open Table 如何通过食物浪费话语消除食物捐赠的污名，以实现更大的社会包容。我借鉴了从不同 Open Table 站点收集的捐助者、厨师、志愿者和食客的经验。采取“跟随事物”的方法，我分析了如何通过拥抱通过当地关怀和欢乐过程制定的环境正义目标来重新评估食物“浪费”。依靠志愿者和非营利机构网络，Open Table 提供了一个简单、有效和适应性强的模型，可以复制以克服传统慈善实践的弊端。但至关重要的是，随着社会饥饿持续增长，这种方法越来越受到需要“挑出”弱势接收者以证明持续供应的合理性的威胁。本文在两个重要方面对食物贫困、浪费和替代食物网络文献做出了贡献：第一，通过分析社区食物再分配方法在污名和包容方面的结果；其次，通过认为需要承认这种整体方法，