Guest Guest Posted February 28, 2008 Report Share Posted February 28, 2008 Freegans? or have you seen any freegans before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Veteran Posted February 28, 2008 Report Share Posted February 28, 2008 Freegan? Freakin? ok, I had to look that one up. Not in the dictionary but it is in the encyclopedia. Freeganism is an anti-consumerism lifestyle whereby people employ alternative living strategies based on "limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources. Freegans embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, conformity, and greed." The lifestyle involves salvaging discarded, unspoiled food from supermarket dumpsters that have passed their expiration date, but are still edible and nutritious. They salvage the food not because they are poor or homeless, but as a political statement. The word "freegan", is a portmanteau of "free" and "vegan". Freeganism started in the mid 1990s, out of the antiglobalization and environmentalist movements. Groups such as Food Not Bombs served free vegetarian and vegan food that was salvaged from food market trash by dumpster diving. The movement also has elements of Diggers, an anarchist street theater group based in Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco in the 1960’s, that gave away rescued food. Ahhhh, sure we do.... they are bums, panhandlers, hobos. Got them in nearly every city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighborhood Disassembly Posted February 29, 2008 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 In other words, dumpsters are a form of "freegan trap"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 29, 2008 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 ""Ahhhh, sure we do.... they are bums, panhandlers, hobos. Got them in nearly every city."""" Be Carefull - the terms "bums and hobos" are politically incorrect. (I guess they should be called homeless.) A couple of years ago a ????? person was searching for food in a dumpster behind Wegmans in Rochester. One of the store managers saw him and chased him away calling him a Bum... Some how this incident made the news and the ???? person ended up with a lawyer who brought a lawsuit against Wegmans. (The lawyer claimed it was a hate crime calling his client a Bum). To avoid additional news coverage Wegmans settleted out of court and gave the ???? person money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 29, 2008 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 Yeah...his name is Bill Huston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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