Garbage gourmets on the streets of New York

by meyers | January 27, 2006 at 09:04 am
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Midtown in NYC

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"freegans"... regard over-consumption as a pernicious global trend and seek to demonstrate how people can feed themselves for "free" on the mountains of produce discarded by others... The freegan rule of thumb for what goes into the shopping bag and what stays in the garbage is simple: "You look at it. You smell it. You feel it. If it seems okay, you take it."

I wonder, are they robbing the homeless of the work of their food supply? are they doing more harm than good? are they out there evangelizing, trying to solve a problem or just rummaging? 

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