geerussell
06-03-2008, 10:04 PM
I always knew that veganism would lead to insanity. I've seen lots of wild freegans, except we always called them "homeless."
http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/645181.html
The term, derived from the words “free” and “vegan,” refers to people who forage through the filth and stink of trash bins in search of discarded but edible food and rifle through trash looking for good, usable household items.
They’re doing it not because they’re homeless or destitute, but as a statement. It’s their own personal way to criticize the amount of waste in America, where an estimated 90 billion pounds of food is discarded every year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
So wasteful is our society, according to the www.freegan.info (http://www.freegan.info/) Web site, that “many people can be fed and supported simply on its trash. … Despite our society’s stereotypes about garbage, the goods recovered by freegans are safe, useable, clean, and in perfect or near-perfect condition, a symptom of a throwaway culture that encourages us to constantly replace our older goods with newer ones.”
http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/645181.html
The term, derived from the words “free” and “vegan,” refers to people who forage through the filth and stink of trash bins in search of discarded but edible food and rifle through trash looking for good, usable household items.
They’re doing it not because they’re homeless or destitute, but as a statement. It’s their own personal way to criticize the amount of waste in America, where an estimated 90 billion pounds of food is discarded every year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
So wasteful is our society, according to the www.freegan.info (http://www.freegan.info/) Web site, that “many people can be fed and supported simply on its trash. … Despite our society’s stereotypes about garbage, the goods recovered by freegans are safe, useable, clean, and in perfect or near-perfect condition, a symptom of a throwaway culture that encourages us to constantly replace our older goods with newer ones.”