Posted on 10/20/2004 4:39:07 PM PDT by Kokojmudd
NEW YORK — One person's trash is literally another person's treasure, if that person happens to be a freegan (search). They’re not vegans who refuse to eat meat or animal products; these people eat out of the garbage.
Freegans generally are activists. They believe we live in a capitalistic society gone mad where food, like so many other items, is needlessly tossed out.
Adam Weissman and some freegan friends, none of whom are homeless or destitute, dig through garbage for food in Manhattan's trendy Upper East Side (search). They refuse to economically support companies that make or sell the items, because they equate doing so with encouraging further exploitation of our natural resources.
"I'm saying we're too materialistic and it's ruining our lives,” Weissman said. "We're wasting enough food to literally feed every starving hungry person on the planet."
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Since he's rich, he's just "eccentric".
If he'd been poor, he'd be called a kook.
Yes. They used to be called raccoons!
I thought that was a mighty funny looking racoon I blasted the other night. As I sat back down on the couch I thought, "wow, a two legged racoon, what'll they think of next."
What if I want to be a Vegan Freegan?
Pickins are gittin' slim...literally
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