[ElkGroveDan]

Oh this is a gem.

[ElkGroveDan]

Let me see if I understand this:

"But Jones and the others say they've never gotten sick from dumpstered food. And washed and prepared, it will make for a full meal -- not just for Jones and his friends, but for dozens of homeless people who they cook for regularly."

Homeless people are so lazy nowadays that they even get other people to do their dumpster-diving for them? Gosh, next they will expect someone to chew the food for them....

[dead]

Simply put: Freegans reduce trash by eating it

Actually, they just compact it a bit further.

Maybe they eat again at that point, I don't know.

[Alberta's Child]

If I had known as a young child that the ultimate destination for American society was one where people scavanged in dumpsters just for the hell of it even though they are fully capable of buying food on their own, I would have submitted my resignation at age 9 and demanded to be left in 4th grade for the rest of my life.

[ElkGroveDan]

Wackernagel designed a way of measuring an individual's impact on the Earth called an "ecological footprint."

I'm a bit embarrassed by it, but I am well known for the size of my "Wackernagel."

[dead]

I just threw out a half a ham sandwich, if any of you guys are interested.

[mystery-ak]

freegans=bums

[bannie]

hahahaha...Y'all are funny! I laughed through every post! The size of my Wacker-whatever is probably larger than my grandmotherly hips! ...or perhaps there's a corolation?

:D

[Republic If You Can Keep It]

What people are witnessing is a culture of waste and affluence, which is occurring in a larger context of poverty on a global scale.....

R i i i i i i i i i ght!

That's why 2/3 of mankind would come to live in the US if they could. We're just so terrible.

[July 4th]

What an amazing country we live in. We can produce engineers and physicists with enough skill to put a man on the moon, and on the other hand, we have the freegan.

[Red Boots]

Pretending to drop out of the natural order of things does not make you morally superior Nor does it actually drop you out of the natural order of things. You're sunk guys, as much as you don't want to accept it, if you live, you consume. You might as well do something really useful and kill yourselves now. Then at least you'll be contributing something useful (humus).

[small voice in the wilderness]

They are the underground resistance to over-consumption.

Oh, puh-leaze. This makes them sound like some group of morally superior pioneers of the human condition. NO, they are the too lazy, too high, too unmotivated, and too bankrupt to contribute anything of value or substance to society. They were better known as bums at one time.

[D. Brian Carter]

"Should I use what otherwise would go to waste?" Jones says. "Or should I go into a store and pay six bucks for this organic vegan product that's in all the plastic packaging, and then someone's going to use that six bucks to go buy McDonald's or something?"

His thinking shows how freegans view the extreme inter-connectedness of things -- like that of a hunk of tofu, for example, to the gas that's used and the pollution that's created by transporting it to a store.

Hey, Jones, have you stopped to think how much carbon dioxide you're spewing into the air by breathing?

[Gritty]

I'm sure there are a lot of proud parents reading this article tonight!

[redhead]

YUMMY! I can hardly wait...

[ErnBatavia]

"When people are starving around the world, (Americans) are throwing away perfectly good food," says David, 20, another Sacramento freegan who doesn't want his last name used.

Maybe "David - age 20" realizes he should be just enough embarrassed to request 'name withheld"?

[lizma]

I guess everybody has to have a hobby.

I wonder if these guys have health insurance.

Sooner or later, Salmonella, a chunk of broken glass, or something nasty is gonna get them and I suspect they would have no problem on depending our "affluence" when they head out to an ER for free health care.

[red-dawg]

Two words:

HOSPITAL DUMPSTER.

[sport]

They are nothing but parairtes, living off the labor of others.

Before I would let the bums use it, I would burn it or let it rot before putting it in the ttash.

[telebob]

Ya know, when I was growing up it was "Clean yer plate. Some starving kid in India would give his right arm fer that brocolli". These guys have taken it to a new level: they're cleaning up everyone else's plate. My how times change.

Sure, being on the mooch when you're 20 is just good clean fun and if you can throw in some nitwit moral rationalizing into the bargain you're home free. But let's see how much fun it is at 30..or 40...

[exit82]

Not a word in the article of when or if they wash the clothes they've been dumpster diving in.