The return of the freegan

[Joel S. Berson]

What do dumpster divers who eat meat call themselves?  Freecarns?

Joel

At 5/15/2012 12:37 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>http://goo.gl/W4tNu
>>In a wealthy country like Canada you would think that no one, save for
>>a few homeless, would search through dumpsters for food. And, you
>>would be wrong.
>>In communities across the continent you may find people going through
>>the garbage. They call themselves "freegans" -- the word compounded
>>from "free" and "vegan"-- and they gather edible food from the garbage
>>bins of grocery stores or food stands that would otherwise have been
>>thrown away. Freegans aim to spend little or no money purchasing food
>>and other goods, not through financial need but to try to address
>>issues of over-consumption and excess.
>
>Is it prime time yet?
>
>     VS-)
>
>On 11/21/2010 7:12 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>At 6:36 PM -0500 11/21/10, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>>>Not quite as imaginative as "locavore", but here's "freegan".
>>>
>>>http://freegan.info
>>Maybe it's not ready for prime time yet, or maybe it already jumped
>>the shark (or the tofark), but it was definitely a contender on our
>>list at a meeting several years ago. I can't remember if it actually
>>won best in category.  (It certainly didn't win best in show.)  Ben
>>or someone else will have the details.  I always liked it because it
>>looks like a typo for "Fregean".
>>
>>Larry
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