Posted on 12/27/2004 3:30:59 PM PST by KneelBeforeZod
PETA should be after these nuts for stealing food out of the mouths of starving racoons, oppossums, dogs, and cats. /sarcasm
Ha ha ha! Look at those sanity fools. Paying for their food, not getting salmonella or botulism and maintaining a ridiculous clean appearance. If only they were as high minded as me.
Absolutely. I could see freegans and fancy lawyers going after restaurant owners for "giving" them inedible trash. Restaurant owners need to go after freegans and police pre-emptively by charging them wth burglary.
Grrr... That should be: "Restaurant owners and police need to go after freegans pre-emptively by charging them wth burglary."
"In terms of people having ownership of their lives and in terms of consuming in a way that is not destroying the planet."
The nobility of dumpster diving. The next time some bum asks me for change, I'll advise him to do the right thing and direct him to the nearest dumpster.
"Wiesner and his friends -- and many others who have also proclaimed themselves freegans -- say they are protesting capitalism and the wastefulness they say it creates."
They're also eating feces of every fly and cockroach that crosses the food before they get to it. That alone carries about sixteen different kinds of diseases with it. I hope they feel good about that.
If middle-class kids can find decent meals from dumpster-diving, then what are the excuses of the bums and panhandlers I see in the streets of Boston?
Where everyone is unemployed and eating garbage? It sounds like a true liberal utopia!
"In terms of people having ownership of their lives and in terms of consuming in a way that is not destroying the planet."
I wish they'd come to our garbage cans. We pay by the pound to get rid of our garbage.
Do you think we could talk them in to eating tin cans, too? They can save the earth, and save us the cost of garbage removal at the same time!
Look at it positively - they are getting a part of survival training which might become necessary for some special forces. They should be immediately drafted and put to good use.
Ahhh, a bum.
That by any other name doth a bum smell as sweet?
Even if the eclair is on top of the magazine, if it's in the trash can it's garbage.
I guess that's one way of putting it.
When I was a kid we had a word for these people: Bums.
what a bunch of bin-boys
Americans Waste Vast Amounts of Edible Food ["Freegans"!]
Free Lunch: Freegans Prove There Is Such A Thing As They Dumpster-Dive for Food
Funny. And I haven't even touched on the rodent population in New Jersey either. I hope they know they're fifteenth or sixteenth down the line on this food. So go ahead and urinate at will. :)
"If middle-class kids can find decent meals from dumpster-diving, then what are the excuses of the bums and panhandlers I see in the streets of Boston?"
Sam! That has to be the third or fourth time you've taken the thoughts right out of my fingertips, LOL! (You obviously type faster than I do.)
The deli next door to where I work throws out the best stuff...I take it home and feed it to my chickens, though one day they tossed an entire flat of slightly over-ripe strawberries so I made jam. I washed them well and any germs were killed in the cooking process; no one died.
A little dumpster divin' never hurt anyone, but this is the midwest and we have pretty clean garbage, LOL! I don't think I'd eat out of a big city dumpster, though.
You are mean spirited.
We should help the bums.
Always remind them to get a job, as soon as possible.
They need reminding.
I tell 'em every day.
I ask no payment for this, I'm just doing my part...
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