Tristram Stuart
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristram_StuartTristram Stuart is an English author and historian.
Stuart has read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating in 1999 and winning the Betha Wolferstan Rylands prize and the Graham Storey prize; his directors of studies were Peter Holland and John Lennard. He is the author of
The Bloodless Revolution: Radical Vegetarians and the Discovery of India (Harper Collins Ltd, 2006) published in the United States as
The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism From 1600 to Modern Times (W.W. Norton, 2007) and
Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal (W.W. Norton, 2009). He is a regular contributor to newspapers, radio and television programs in the UK, US and Europe on the subject of food, the environment and freeganism.
He lives in England and in December 2009 organized "Feeding the 5000" in London's Trafalgar Square in which 5,000 people were served 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.