Posted on 11/10/2020 10:47:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
The idea of rummaging around in a dumpster may gross you out, but freegans -- or dumpster divers -- are only too keen to roll up their sleeves and get stuck in. They have become masters in the art of getting food by salvaging it rather than buying it, a militant act that seeks to combat food waste.
In a bid to cut food waste, some people have decided to delve into the dumpsters left outside major supermarkets in order to fish out any unsold foodstuffs. This ecological movement is known as "freeganism" -- a portmanteau of the terms "free" and "veganism" -- which involves recovering waste items discarded in the evening from the garbage cans and dumpsters left outside supermarkets, grocery stores, bakeries, fast-food outlets and other businesses selling food.
These freegan militants -- also known as dumpster divers -- seem to have no problem filling up their fridges for free. You might think it sounds revolting, but the fact is that supermarket dumpsters are often full of foodstuffs still sealed in their packaging and only just past their use-by dates. In other words, they're still intact and still perfectly edible.
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Don’t eat garbage or bugs.
>>known as “freeganism” — a portmanteau of the terms “free” and “veganism”
Um, there are “vegans” who’s definition of freegan is they will eat meat IF they don’t have to pay for it.
Further proof of the utter idiocy in this world.
>>In other words, they’re still intact and still perfectly edible.
They aren’t perfectly edible.
Especially when in contact with waste products and leakage from other packages and stored at improper temperatures.
But don’t forget to wear your covid mask. < /sarc >
The board of health would rightly shut down any restaurant that sourced its meels this way and Yelp would have a field day attacking such a dining establishment.
At first glance, I thought that “Freegan” was a portmanteau of “Freeper” and “Vegan”.
But then I saw the source, and ascertained that they were trying to create a Newspeak neologism for a dumpster diver.
“You’ll eat our tablescraps, crickets, and mealworms and love it.” - the so called “elites”
They should eat them after they rip them up.
A little ‘how to’ manual for the time when Sandy, She Woof of the Demonrat Party starts actions against those on her ‘list’?
BTW, to Sandy and all her psychotic ilk, there are more conservatives who possess firearms and know how to use them, than all the ‘soi boiz’ that you hang around with.
Why can’t we have the muffin tops? Why do we only get the rest of it?
“Do not question me!” - she who must not be questioned as she scarfs down enough to feed a small village for a week.
Having worked in my teens as a grocery stock boy and at a number of pizza restaurants in my small town can confirm that the amount of perfectly edible food that both those entities throw away is a shame. We used to keep pizzas off the buffet for our homeless street kids and runaways in the coolers and leave them at the end of the night in trash bags wrapped up separate by the back door. At the grocery the stock boys routinely took steaks that were pulled to be thrown away and kept them in the back cooler till we got off work and went home to major grill night. Tuesday’s was markoff day we all made sure we were scheduled for that evenings stock run. Nothing wrong with reducing waste especially if you are just going to trash perfectly edible food anyways.
Did that a couple times 2nd round of college. Guys found a dumpster with day old sandwiches we’d cook over a fire pit. I slept in the college lab, behind some bushes and occasionally the cadaver room.
No mayo, toss the lettuce. It could give you a really bad case of gastroenteritis but that never happened. I probably have a lead lined stomach. Only lasted three weeks.
Took a lot of focus to make it through that semester,*Physio, calculus, Chem2B,and Neuro-psych) maintain a high GPA and poor as dirt. Showers at the gym or swimming to keep clean.
Trump’s fault?
The sacrifices of youth...before I shipped out for the Corps I was too young at 17 to get an apartment but old enough to rent a storage unit with 24/7 access. It had a single plug and a overhead light. I still own the minispace heater, single burner hot plate, Ikea nested pot set and electric blanket I used to live on for those cold 4 months waiting to ship out. Used to shower at the gym where I had a membership. I keep them to remind me what surviving and sacrificing for a goal means.
They often go around and put locks on spaces that were left unlocked. You could get trapped in there.
Dumpster diving at grocery stores was a big component of the “Manson Family”, they were real pros at it from the accounts. They even got Dennis Wilson to drive them around or somesuch. Kinda wacky. Sounds like they are in good company. Hm.
Yum. Pag-pag. You go first.
Oy! Newspeak creation and usage is expanding.
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