Freegans Equal Garbage-Eaters
Dumpster Diving For the 21st Century
By Chris C
Oh my fucking God the moonbats have lost their freaking minds. Ozone depletion was interesting. I thought global warming was a good one. I laughed at the British proposal for a tax on cars that give off CO2. But this movement is by far the dumbest thing ever.
We begin with a day-in-the-life of a freegan:
“For lunch in her modest apartment, Madeline Nelson tossed a salad made with shaved carrots and lettuce she dug out of a Whole Foods dumpster. She flavored the dressing with miso powder she found in a trash bag on a curb in Chinatown. She baked bread made with yeast plucked from the garbage of a Middle Eastern grocery store.”
The potpourri of disease and food-borne illnesses await you oh freegans!
Instead of spending money on food that isn’t old or expired, a freegan picks their groceries out of the garbage. Right now you are probably sitting there thinking: “but Chris she is probably poor or something.”
“Nelson is a former corporate executive who can afford to dine at four-star restaurants. But she prefers turning garbage into gourmet meals without spending a cent.”
Yes, people with college educations are voluntarily eating out of garbage cans and dumpsters. Not only that but Maddie quit her six figure income position at Barnes and Noble and is living off her savings to do this. She is fifty-one. I can only hope she invested wisely. I sweat retirement and I still have time at thirty-eight.
She had forty work blouses and ate at four-star restaurants but the problem wasn’t her spending habits of course. It was an economic system which gave her the ability to have that savings thus giving her the freedom to eat garbage. I am not so sure this is what Jefferson envisioned.
Look I can understand working for a large corporation. It sucks donkey balls. But why didn’t she start her own publishing company and help new writers get noticed? There are so many talented people that never get a chance to get published but deserve to.
How the fuck does eating garbage seem like a better option as far as the betterment of society? It is because it is all about Madeline Nelson and her freegan, garbage-picking, dumpster-diving belief system. She could have done something to help a lot of people but she chose to be selfish.
She doesn’t even have the balls to live off the land and grow her own food. No, she mooches like a vagrant. Look at the happy group of vagabonds in that picture.
Mrs. Nelson also screws the economy. Her liberal spending probably helped a lot of people who needed the money more then her, like the busboy in those four-star restaurants. What about the legal immigrant family who owns a dry cleaning business and now has lost the business of the garbage-eater?
Of course you expect some sort of irony in all this and here it is:
“Though many of its pioneers are vegans, people who neither eat nor use any animal-based products, the concept has caught on with Nelson and other meat-eaters who do not want to depend on businesses that they believe waste resources, harm the environment or allow unfair labor practices.”
So, it is not okay to buy food from a supermarket, but it is alright to take old food that had to be paid for by someone else. I am assuming the reasoning is that they take the stuff from the dumpsters of the health food stores. I must be wrong thinking that these places buy their food. Maybe it is some kind of hippie consignment system, who the hell knows.
Hippie Store Owner: Hey man, like all the food got old so like I can’t pay for the stuff I was supposed to sell last week dude.
Hippie Farmer Dude: That’s ok man, the freegans will take it. Dude this system rocks! Long live Gaia!
It gets better. All these freegans live with a bunch of people, mostly family. Living on your own is not an option. How the hell can you when you don’t have a job and pick garbage cans for dinner. I can understand being in a household with a husband or wife and kids, but we are talking the relatives that visit, not the ones that move in. Pick garbage for meals and live with the mother-in-law? Where the hell do I sign up?
I tell you, it just gets wackier and wackier all the time with these moonbat nutjobs. Next thing you know these people will try and convince us that giving someone else money to plant a tree will reduce the sun’s energy output.
Oh wait, they already did. Anyone know where I can buy tree seeds? I got an idea for a little side-venture.
Source: LA Times
Chris C is a freelance writer and author of the blog Nothing to See Here.
Rumor has it that Diesel picked a few gems out of the trash at Humor-Blogs.com
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Category: Pointless Nonsense Tags: Disgusting Political Humor, Madeline Nelson, Trash Eaters
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Anyone know where I can buy tree seeds?
I have acorns all over the damn place. Does that count?
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I wrote this a week ago and the concept still blows my mind.
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That is frigging disgusting. I hope they get some kind of disease or crunch down on a cockroach or some other disgusting bug.
Those people are freaking sick!
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Well, I suppose it’s OK. Just as long as you don’t mind an old hippywino stopping by and takin’ a wizz in the “grocery” box now and then.
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How can this be? Is it just me or has everyone gone crazy? Are people that desperate to be part of some movement? I’m amazed yet not surprised.
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Well, mold is penicillin.
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I want to punch people like that until one of us stops breathing.
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[...] worth inventing. You can credit them for pondering what the definition of “is” is, eating garbage, and inventing man made global warming. That’s about it. Oh, yeah. They also forfeited a war [...]
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[...] first hurdle you will need to eat, but be careful because you might be competing with Freegans. Freegans are like hippies but worse because of their affinity for dumpster food and lack of sharing with anyone outside their [...]
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While I will never choose to live this lifestyle. I think what Madeline and other freegans are doing is making a good point. We waste a lot of food. If you guys looked up videos on this, you would see a lot of the food they eat is not moldy or even past its expiration date. Their movement makes me reflect on what I waste in my own life.
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So, how is being wasteful bad? The more I buy and don’t use, the more free stuff other people get to have. If we stop wasting our food, these people will starve to death.
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no one gives there food waste away – really
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If you were truly concerned about your fellow human beings you would. Why do you hate starving people?
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Since we are re-visiting this one in the comments…
“While I will never choose to live this lifestyle. I think what Madeline and other freegans are doing is making a good point. We waste a lot of food. If you guys looked up videos on this, you would see a lot of the food they eat is not moldy or even past its expiration date.”
Yeah but once the food hits the trash it is no good for human consumption, either through cross contamination or living in the danger zone of 41-140F.
I watched a video where someone was bragging about cottage cheese they found in the trash was still good for a few more weeks.
That would be true if it was kept in a fridge but they found in a garbage bag which was at room temp for who knows how long.
At that point an expiration date is meaningless if it is not kept at the proper storage temperatures.
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buying is dying. all business is the death business…
It’s funny, the people so worried about getting “dis-ease” are the ones spreading it. it’s spread through fear and disinformation. Mostly cause if they faced reality, it would mean they would actually have to do something.
People that “work” are lazy, since they not really creating anything, just following orders. Following orders from masters that don’t serve anyone anymore. . If ppl would like to get active, get off their bums and do something with their life beyond self-destruction, one way is to go freegan.
freegan-ism is about self-responsibility, honesty, transparency, being productive, fun, sharing, and not escaping reality/ living in denial. It’s the next step for mankind for those who are ready to get off the “take pills die” dealth cult-ure sinking ship.
Freeganism goes beyond money, government, socialism, liberalism, republican, democracy, countries.. Though it’s nothing new. It doesn’t take sides, it’s neutral. It soley depends on what actually “works”. It has nothing to do with living out of dumpsters or trash and has everything to do with not making new trash, or like I said before, it’s about doing what works.
It takes backbone to choose life in a world where everyone wants to die. But first we have to realize how we are being self destructive.
property is theft. theft is property. There is enough for everyone. It starts with abundance thinking.
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What a dumb ass idea. If no one produced, there would be nothing for you dumpster divers to retrieve. I don’t expect this to sink in.
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Isn’t it funny that the leaders of the left dine on Chilean sea bass and lobster dipped in champagne-infused butter while their followers eat cottage cheese out of a trash bag? By their own choice no less.
Moonbats are so silly.
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“It’s funny, the people so worried about getting “dis-ease” are the ones spreading it. it’s spread through fear and disinformation. ”
No, Andrew, disease is spread by bacteria and viruses – bacteria that lives and thrives in garbage. Take a basic science course.
“People that “work” are lazy, since they not really creating anything, just following orders. Following orders from masters that don’t serve anyone anymore. ”
Ah, the rallying cry of the truly lazy. Tell me, Andy – was the man who created the computer you’re typing on ‘lazy’? Was he creating something? Who’s paying for your ISP? I’d like you to walk up to a guy who works hard 12 hours a day and call him lazy. Or a guy who is self-employed and busts his buns 50-60 hours a week and tell him he’s just folowing orders. Just because you’ve had pointless, nowhere, deadend jobs doesn’t mean that everyone else has them, too.
The middle part of Andrew’s message is the usual anarchist/skater punk/drug loon/left-wing crap, and needs no further comment.
“property is theft. theft is property”
People who want to take YOUR stuff love to say this. Try to take their stuff and the ‘property is theft’ thing goes away. Andrew apparently feels that life is here for him to mooch around, take what he wants, smoke a doob, and not produce anything or even help any one else – after all, he’s a ‘freegan’, so what more does he have to do?
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“It’s funny, the people so worried about getting “dis-ease” are the ones spreading it. it’s spread through fear and disinformation. ”
We don’t worry about getting a disease Andrew, or as you like to refer to it in a fictional sense “dis-ease” because we do not eat food out of the garbage.
If you get a nasty case of food poisoning Andrew I guess you can blame it on fear and disinformation; hygiene, proper food storage, and sanitation be damned.
Or maybe it was Bush’s fault you got sick from eating out of the trash.
On a side note maybe we should encourage more liberals to become Freegans. It would reduce their population.