Free food! You just need to know where to Look.

Washington Post ^ | July 1 | Bronwen Latimer

[nickcarraway]

To be a freegan is to be a person who avoids exchanging money for food and other items — you recycle what is still good instead. To accomplish this, however, one has to be creative, maybe even nocturnal.

“After the markets close, the shopkeepers put food on the sidewalk,” explains Aliza Eliazarov, who discovered this world of freeganism while on a newspaper assignment about dumpster diving. “Most of the food doesn’t even make it into the trash because people are there waiting for it.”

Eliazarov, who has a degree in environmental engineering and an interest in conservation and preservation, signed onto listservs for freegans and tried various approaches on how to tell the story photographically. She settled on Dutch Realism after toting a black, velvet cloth with her on a routine evening.

“My goal was not to be yucky but to show the beauty in the food that was about to be trashed,”

[nickcarraway]

Bread is one of the most wasted food items. We throw out almost 750 million loaves each year. All of the food above was rescued from curbside trash outside of a market and bakery in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Immature egg yolks from the oviducts of culled layer hens were used by chef Dan Barber over a stew of kale ribs and imperfect potatoes and parsnips during his wastED pop-up restaurant event in New York in March 2015.

Oyster shells from Brooklyn’s Maison Premiere Restaurant are reclaimed by the Billion Oyster Project, which aims to restore one billion live oysters in the New York harbor. These shells can be used in new oyster beds.

[ClearCase_guy]

This is political theater and not a meaningul way to feed the poor people in a nation of 330 million people.

You want to end poverty and put food on people’s plates? Get government out of the way.

End Liberalism.
End Socialism.
Cut government in half. For a start.

Social Justice Warriors are not the solution. They are part of the problem.

[IronJack]

The food that appears to be free is known in the industry as “waste.” Someone has to pay for it. In this case, it’s the restaurant’s customers who are charged enough to cover the waste. If they weren’t, the restaurant would go out of business and the “free” food would disappear.

There is no such thing as a free lunch. Or a free late-night snack, for that matter.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources has been doing the oyster shell program for years.

[Organic Panic]

What is going to be absolutely hilarious is when the poor folk who have scavenged for food to survive will be pushed out of the way by yuppy “freegans” who take all their trashed food to their loft apartments downtown where they drink a $100 of wine to go with their reclaimed oysters.

[exDemMom]

My stepfather used to buy chicken feed mixed with crushed oyster shells because the calcium makes egg shells stronger.

[nickcarraway]

I’m not sure this is a trend yuppies will be eager to embrace.

[Gamecock]

It's a bear claw! You have no idea how rare this is.

[rellimpank]

-—and then there are “expiration dates”—something along without which I got along, most of my life-—

[I want the USA back]

A freegan is someone who takes food paid for by someone else who used money.

[piasa]

The grocery stores used to give away or severely mark down old bread and fruit and so on to hog farmers and chicken farmers. I used to get a truckload of bread and cakes for 10 bucks.

But then they got scared of being sued and if people tried to eat that stuff so they refuse to sell it and make sure to throw it away into bins in fully enclosed areas where you can’t get to it.

[bakeneko]

Washington Compost just giving a heads-up to Big City dems; so they can figure out how to tax ‘free’.

[trisham]

Exactly right.

[TexasTransplant]

When I was in France the Bakeries had “Old” Bread (Baked that Morning but by 2:00 PM it was “Old”) that was sold to feed the ducks in the river just down the street.

They take their bread very seriously ...

[greeneyes]

We have day old bread stores in a neighboring town. They have bread, jelly, peanut butter, and lots of snack cakes too.

[Mears]

“We have day old bread stores in a neighboring town. “

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My kids grew up on day old bread.

It was commonly done in those days,the 60s-70s,at least in my area.

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[greeneyes]

We used to get it half price. Cheaper than I could make it.