Transformations: The politics of dumpstered soup: Food not bombs and the limits of decommodifying food

This chapter explores the ability of Food Not Bombs, an anarchist homeless food organisation that publicly serves free vegetarian dumpstered food. Following a historical and theoretical exploration of the commodification of food, the chapter engages with the concept of the ex-commodity and discusses how Food Not Bombs, a radical network which formed out of anti-nuclear and anti-militarist movements, uses the ex-commodity as part of a broader politics of decommodifying food and undermining the capitalist food system.