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Freegans

They eat food they find in bins and are driven by conscience, not financial need. Meet the freegans.

The freegan philosophy of "ethical eating" is a reaction against a wasteful society and a way of highlighting how supermarkets dump tonnes of food every year that is still edible.

BBC NEWS | Magazine | No such thing as a free lunch?

SJ_Skyline

Mad as a box of frogs.

OllyK

Funny, I thought supermarkets were changing dates to keep inedible goods on the shelves
BBC NEWS | Business | Out-of-date food in UK supermarkets

dpb

Well ive never taken to much notice of sell by dates anyway



if it cuts the ****ehawks out of the game im all for it

Fantom

I like this quote

"You can justify it all you like. You can sugar coat it. But it's EATING FROM A BIN."
Matthew MacGregor, Inverness, Scotland

lightning101

They'll be up **** creek if some junkies dump their needles in the bin

Markus

Legally, who owns the items thrown into the bins? Is it still the supermarket as the bins are still on their, one presumes private, property, in which case, would these cheapskates not be trespassing in the first case to get to the bins, then we have a possible theft situation as I'm guessing that, allthough the items are in bins, they are still the property of the supermarket until they leave the boundry of the supermarket premises.

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

Absolutely correct the contents of any bin belongs to the bin owner until it is collected by the rubbish truck, even then the rubbish then belongs to the rubbish company collecting it so it is technically illegal for the bin men themselves to bin dive.

dpb

So your suggesting that whats bought and paid for by the punter and hitherto discarded , then reverts back to the ownership of the supermarket

Markus

If the supermarket offers a refund then one could argue they are buying back the goods, so the ownership reverts to the supermarket. If the goods are simply exchanged then again one could argue that ownership reverts back as there is a like for like exchange happening.

Leslie

I'm with Hutton d and fantom on this one. Incredible!

Les

KiwiGTI

I actually disagree with supermarkets throwing away so much food, surely there could be better uses such as donating it to zoos, farmers, welfare recipients, the homeless etc.

SJ_Skyline

I agree with you but then when some clot ends up with food poisoning by eating something that's slightly out of date it's the supermarket that's the one that ends up being sued so it nds up not being worth the effort on their part.

Longjing

Can't say I fancy it, but i don't see what harm it does to anyone else. Good luck to them.

Copious production and consumption is not the only way to live, even if theirs is an extreme reaction to it.

dpb

Copious consumption is never going to fulfill your spiritual wellbeing

Longjing

Makes you feel better for a while though!

fast bloke

Did anyone see a program a while back about a guy eating roadkill. Given the choice i think the bins might get a visit!!