Why Did This Guy Cross the Atlantic Eating Only Expired Food?

Baptiste Dubanchet solo-pedalled across the Atlantic, consuming only expired food to draw attention to food wastage.

Baptiste Dubanchet pedalled across The Atlantic in 91

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Just to draw attention to the epidemic of food wastage, particularly in the developed world, this campaigner pedalled solo across the Atlantic Ocean in boat. Baptiste Dubanchet, 29, a French activist, spent 91 days alone on the boat fighting off sharks , whales and storms. He pedalled from Paris to New York City powered only by calories that would otherwise have been discarded and ate lentils which expired in 2008, rice which went out of date in 2011, and honey dating back to the 1960s.

Baptiste made way through France, Spain, Morocco on a bike before sailing across the Atlantic and pedalling from Miami to New York.

The remarkable journey took ten months and Baptiste says that each moment of this journey was filled with adventure and danger. In April 2014, he crossed seven European countries, from Paris to Warsaw, eating only food from dumpsters.

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