Freeganism
Definition:
Freeganism - the name of the
movement was founded in the USA as a cluster of words free - free, free, and
veganism – veganism.
Who makes us a person
rummaging in the garbage? That's it. I think very few of us are aware of the
fact that more and more people are doing it for ethical reasons.
Freegan is a person completely
independent of the shop everyday. Anti-consumerism life style, which is to
reduce participation in the conventional economy. Freegans they say they are
trying to get used to the public with a view of people looking for something in
the garbage. Not yet grown up to this, to believe Freegan a kind of
environmentalists who care about our environment. Not so much aversion to
commercialism broken world, economic considerations are the main reason for
seeking food on rubbish dumps.
Why bother and cook, as food
is literally on the street?
http://www.formyhour.com/img/weird/freeganism_rejection_of_consumerism/freeganism.jpg
Two
main goals:
1.
To
buy as little as possible
2.
Use
only what they need.
How often, seeing a person
rummaging in the garbage, we thought about him in disgust? Typically, we are
accelerating pace, not wanting to deal with someone like that.
These
people can be fed exclusively what you will find in the street. The meccas for
them are supermarkets, which they claim they are able to feed half the city
every day. Institute Millward Brown SMG KRC in 2010 examined consumer attitudes
of Poles. The conclusions of these studies are not optimistic: last year, an
average of one third of Poles purchased food thrown in the trash. Of
course, not all, but to a greater or lesser extent, it was simply too much and
has passed its expiration date. They says that it is very easy to find some
morsels. Sometimes the lunch already collected does not differ much from the
course of the most expensive restaurants in town.
http://identityspecialist.net/2011/01/04/freeganism-fb/
How Freegans finds food:
·
Dumpster
diving
·
Curb
shopping
·
Bartering
or trading
·
Foraging
for wild food
·
Sharing
·
Gardening
What
does the shop owners? Freegans are often chased away, it happens also that the
owners call the police. But they are powerless: they can not punish for that
someone simply buried in the dumpster. Many retailers in the U.S. and Germany
came to the conclusion that they can get along and leave them with appropriate
products in their containers. This happens in the West, but those people are
very different than ours.
nigelsecostore.com
Freegans
also attempt to limit their impact on the world by using fuel-friendly modes of
transportation (biking, walking, public transportation and carpooling),
sykes77.blogspot.com
video
here!
theprisma.co.uk
When
you see as emerging from the garbage at night, there is a high probability that
the place to Freegan.
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/06/20/garden/21freeganCA08ready.html
Quiz: Are You Freegan
Material?
Test yourself! Who
knows!
Questions:
1.
Do
freeganism is another fashion, lifestyle and popular due to poverty or simple
economic calculation.
2.
Is
their life disgusting?
3.
Would
you like to try it sometime live one day as they were?
Resources:
http://money.howstuffworks.com/freegan.htm
Haha, few days ago my friend told me a joke, it is a racist joke but who cares...
ReplyDeletePeople who eat vegetables? - VEGANS
People who eat what they find - FREEGANS
People who eat what they steal? - CYGANS
Yup... not funny, i know...
At the beggining of your post i thought to myself "why? and how?" this thing must stink and you don't know who and what did do with that food. Of course i thought like a polish citizen, but then i look at the pictures below and i see, that in US people really waste lot of good food. Sometimes i hate US so much for their consumptionism. It seems like this freeganism thing is another fashion, but at least people who lives like that, are showing us some real problem to deal with. Someone ever said that human will eat insects in future, and this is what shows us, that we are approaching to this. I've sent your post to my good friend and he told me, these freegans should all burn :) actually, i think, people who work for money and can afford a normal food, shouldn't do such thing like freeganism, because there are homeless people without choice, and now we can clearly say they are being robbed. I think there is a food chain, and those people who has got money, should spend them on food, then eat it and what's left should be thrown into trash for homeless people not for freegans.
2nd question - of course it is disgusting
3rd question - nope, i am not and i don't want to be and i don't ever want anyone to live that way
Oh, c'mon! Freeganists, Squatters, what else are we going to start calling 'lifestyle'? Suicide bombers are going to get their own as well?
ReplyDeleteI don't believe someone would be so desperate to manifest against consumerism this way. This is just attention whoring.
Also in most cases this is just dumb, that food is being wasted because nobody wanted it, even in the US shops are selling out or giving out for free vegetables at the end of the day. Then they're forced to throw it out, and suddently people who want to be cool show up and gain attention by 'screwing the system' and showing off their freeganism? You know, they could always start growing their own food, but I guess thats too mainstream among farmers...
I think it's just stupid.
ReplyDeleteI understand people who do this because of economic circumstances. People for who it's the only way to survive. But doing this as a choice? Why?
I don't understand the idea behind it and I don't understand people who follow this fashion.
Wasting food is a problem but I don't think that convincing people not to waste food would bring any profit. If people have already bought this food eating it or wasting wouldn't change anything.
Eating from junk is definitely unhealthy. There are a lot of microbes in it.
Do I think it's disgusting? It depends. For people who do it by choice - yes.
I wouldn't try this unless I have to.
Maybe my opinion isn't very representative because I don't understand people who don't eat something and cause some healthy damage for some ideas (like not eating meal).
1.Someone wise once said that there was enough food on the world to feed everyone. The problem is the food distribution and usage. I never heard about freeganism but respect people who do it. If you happen to pass by the large supermarket or the restaurant on the night,you might find yourself speechless seeing how much food is thrown away on daily basis. I think most people who reach for the food from the dumpsters,unfortunately,have no choice due to life circumstances. Yet,the ones who are doing it as Freegans give garbage food the new meaning. Kudos to them for taking the risk and trying to change the world.
ReplyDelete2. Is it disgusting? I think it is just the perception that everything that is in the trash is nasty and dirty. If someone was served the recycled food on the gorgeous tray with the utensils no one would even thought that the food came from the trash. It is all about people's judgement and consideration for the eco- future.
3. I must say I would like to try to be a Freegan at least for a day. However,I wouldn't go to the extreme of suddenly going through Warsaw's dumpsters but would love an opportunity to spend a day with Freegans and learn from them.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion this is another hipster action, to be more "unique".
If you still don't know how to rozróznić hipster from homless - watch this short & fun lesson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a1FdDf72AQ
And being more serious, I think this is their choice, and I don't think they life is disgusting, if they would grow some ilines like necrosis because of "fashion" or somthing like that I would say they are disgusting.
I would not like to try it. There is no reason for me to do that. If everone would start to live that way, soon there would be no food in the garbage and they would have to buy it :)
polish arists opion about this topic
http://www.andrzejrysuje.pl/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/freeganka.jpg
I once watched a TV show about strange habits and one of them was eating food that someone throw away - like half of hamburger or that what most of us would call leftovers. I thought that there are only few people who do that, but now I see there is more of them! Like previously was said that its obvious that poor or homeless people do it to survive, but make a lifestyle of it? Its simply disgusting. I think people are bored with their life’s and they say its ecology just to find a way to explain themselves. On the hand there is a lot of food that going to waste for example from restaurants, where sometimes good food is thrown away, because that’s what the health and safety regulations says. Maybe we should first think about how not to waste tons of food (as we see in pictures above there trashes full of really good food) than how to give a “second life” to food.
ReplyDeleteI would not say that Freeganism is a lifestyle. If it was a lifestyle there would be more people who do that. Don’t you think that people who look for food in rubbish are only the poor ones who do not have sufficient incomes to live their lives as other people do? I must say that I have never seen anyone who searched for food and was dressed up neatly. Only people in need do this as they are always hungry and filthy. Moreover, it i s disgusting and people who force themselves to do that must be conscious of the fact that their health is in danger (especially when it comes to poor people who do not have any access to healthcare). However, I really appreciate if there are people who do that because they are against consumerism- that would mean that they really want to show the others that we should not fulfill our unreasonable needs but kill stupid desires that grow in our minds. It must require a lot of courage. Concluding, I do not think that someone would force me to do this one day since it is detestable for me.
ReplyDeleteI do not know how this discarded food is stored, but I can imagine it so that it just ends up in the garbage along with some not eaten the remains of the debris from the floor (and in addition it is known that the bins are not cleaned too often and you will find there old, moldy leftovers). Maybe part of it is staged in a container and is wearing the baskets ... But after all, not'd take something like that, they can go after cats or rats or someone could spray it with something ... If these shops and restaurants immediately after packing the food reflected the hand it to someone a little different ...
ReplyDeleteWhen you consider just burying it in containers no I'm not, for me, in such places can only be found dirt and germs.
However, if this topic is also about eating the food after the expiry date, which give shops it's okay. I do not ever throw food at once, which is a few days after the first date and check whether it is actually broken. The stores sometimes buy something that is a day or two before the deadline (yogurt, cheese, chocolate, canned food and products generally closed).
At home, I try not to throw food and use it as soon as you can. I think teaching people to save, and this attitude does not throw food are better ways than to show them that you have to dig in the trash and not buy anything.
Although I'm not a freegan, I've done it once, and I could do it again. In Amsterdam, there's this big street market, and while it's ending, the sellers puts all vegetables (that wasn't sold) in one place. It's not a typical trash dump. This is just a pile of boxes on the street. I went there with my frieds, and took all of the yummy goods we can handle, and we wasn't the only ones. I don't think it's strange. Vegetables was clean and perfectly normal, also local inhabitant didn't seem very surpised. The diner was delicious, maybe because it was for free, and belive me! you don't want to spend all your money for food in Amsterdam :)
ReplyDeleteAlso I really do feel like wasting food is a big unseen problem.
Eeeeew! Disgusting! :) As I understand homeless people, who must dive into garbage to find food (and I feel very sorry for them) I just cannot believe that some people do it because they want to. I respect the idea behind it, I respect devotion, but when it comes to me - I even can't eat with the same fork that one of my family member was just using - not to even mention diving in garbage :)
ReplyDeleteAnyway as I am libertarian I think everybody should do what they want to as long as they do no harm to others. If there are people willing to dive in my garbage to find food - be my guest!
You have to be a complete dumbass to do that! At the first glance It was funny to read but then I suddenly got sad about how stupid people can get. It’s another pointless fashion that is making homeless people even more humiliated that they already are. As to simple economic calculation if they get some serious health issues from this garbage food they will spend much a lot of money. I hope they will all get a hard diarrhea for at least a month, so that they regret their parents have ever given birth to them.
ReplyDeleteIs their life disgusting? I think that it is pointless and they should consider ending it.
The last question means to me: Would you like to try to be dumb for a day? :)
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ReplyDeleteFreeganism is definitely some kind of a new trend, fashion and the way of life! In my opinion, most of the people that decided to become freegans did that mainly because they consider freeganism as something ‘cool’, ‘trendy’ and ‘different’. Therefore, I think that only few people started following this ‘trend’ of eating from the garbage because of their bad financial situation.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, I think that it is really horrible that nowadays we waste so much food by throwing is away since there is so many starving people in the world…. But did the freeganism trend start because people did not have money for food? I do not think so.
To sum up, for me eating food from garbage is disgusting and I will never do that no matter how ‘cool’ and ‘trendy’ is that. Therefore, I will never try to live as freegan even for one day.
@Natalia: You found a great picture :)
For freeganism is another fashion, lifestyle and popular due to poverty or simple Economic calculation?
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, healthy food is very important. The key is knowledge and awareness of the products that we eat. I believe that the principles and rules which share Fregans are interesting, but their implementation is not understandable for me.
Are my fresh fruits and vegetables?
This is what you can yourself to plant in the garden or on the field and eat whenever we feel like it. At the same time, they are very healthy, assuming that no pesticides are used excessively.
I do not understand why people who believe in this trend looking in garbage bins and used to prepare meals. They also claim that this reduces the Commercialism. Using products that are bought and then thrown out is the same as buying and eating.
Their life is disgusting?
Sure it is, and I would never try the food prepared at the products found in the trash.
Would you like to try it sometime live one day as they were?
No thank you. I do not want to check. I hope that life will never force me to look for food in the trash.