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- "foraged food being contaminated with car emissions": Sometimes I think about it, when eating figs just next to roads, trees literally shaped by the traffic, or near gutters. But I try and see. I live in the French riviera, it used to be full of orchards, greenhouses. There less and less relics of this beautiful past, but I can still explore the area for those fig/clementine/mandarine/orange/loquats/persimmons trees (there are avocados, but I'm not fan)

- "How do you find these produce discounts?" Same process - exploration, helping, sympathizing with fruit producers vendors, they are often happy to get rid of unsold fruits.

I wish people will change their mind, damaged/ugly/super ripe produces should not be wasted, they are still mostly good, a fruit that fell on the floor isn't wasted, a fruit with a bug isn't wasted (all the opposite, it's a sign it's good), most people throw away way too much food, and parts of the food