Who are the Freegans?
These are folks who, for reasons of thrift, but often more of conscience, do their best not to exchange money for food, and live largely off the waste of a profligate system. Here’s one of their links. As you will see from this site, Freeganism involves more than salvaging food. The bottom line is, why send a perfectly usable consumer item of any kind to a landfill? Something I realized after reading up on this is that I’ve been sort of an amateur Freegan for most of my life, and so was my mother. If there was something she couldn’t use, for one reason or another, be it food, toothpaste, etc., she was always giving it to me or my wife. At work, I’m always the one who, after some Thanksgiving or Christmas office orgy, is putting the perishables in the nearest refrigerator and planning my lunch, and hopefully that of a few other employees, for the next couple of days. Freegans aren’t always vegans, although some are. I probably would never be able to go full time as one, because I like d
