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January 27, 2006
Solution to World Hunger Discovered by NYC Moonbats
It looks like freeganism isn't just for smelly unemployed squatters anymore. A true freegan is someone who refuses to buy any food, on the grounds that doing so would entail participating in capitalism. But if liberal ideology were to demand total compliance on the part of its advocates, it would soon be very short of advocates — if you doubt it, read Peter Schweizer's excellent Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy. So it was only a matter of time until freeganism became a part-time principle, a practice engaged in as convenient by people who probably bathe fairly often, usually buy their food, and even participate in capitalism to the point of having jobs.
Whereas the purist freegan rejects all voluntary commerce, these freegan-lites are more focused on the perniciousness of over-consumption. Breitbart.com reports that they gather two or three times a month to do some "shopping" among the rat-infested dumpsters and stinking trash bags of Manhattan.
"I make good money and I can afford to buy food," says a freegan who works as a social worker, "but it's a shame to see this waste."
A high school teacher named Janet Kalish is moving toward true freeganism. She has become so skilled at digging stuff out of the garbage to eat that "the only food she still purchases in traditional fashion are the soy-based products she requires for her strictly vegetarian diet."
"My meals have become more diversified because I find surprises," chirps Kalish. "Things I probably wouldn't buy in stores, like endives and avocado. I wash them well and I know where there's clean garbage."
You have to admire her resourcefulness. Clean garbage isn't easy to find in New York City.
"There's not a single food we can't find in perfect condition in a bag on a sidewalk," boasts math teacher Jason Samuels.
No wonder Adam Weissman, the organizer behind the local chapter, believes that "The solution to world hunger lies on the streets of New York."
Hat tip: Drudge
Posted by Van Helsing at January 27, 2006 1:44 PM
Comments
And, no doubt, these dumpster-diving lunatics consider themselves part of the "Reality-Based Community."
Posted by: V the K at January 27, 2006 2:38 PM
I'll bet one of them will litigate at the drop of a hat, should one of them get food posioning from eating food from the dumpster, put there because its shelf-life has expired and can no longer be sold.
Isn't the real word for these people, bums?
Posted by: ex-expat at January 27, 2006 2:46 PM
I wonder if they've stopped to consider that they might actually be depriving genuinely needy people of their main source of food.
Posted by: Archonix at January 27, 2006 2:59 PM
BUT the real question is...
Do they go to the Starbucks dumpster or the counter?
Hmmmmm.....
Posted by: Doug at January 27, 2006 4:11 PM
So, how long before a movement starts to stop breathing air, because capitalist pollutants are in it? Or to stop drinking water for the same reason?
I wish I had a huge trust fund to waste on coming up with new ways to "stick it to 'The Man.'"
Posted by: Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds at January 27, 2006 4:42 PM
I know a freegan that got pissed off because the half-eaten banana she picked out of the trash bin had a hair on it!
So she wants to sue the government to force everyone to separate their trash from foodstuffs and debris and other garbage.
Posted by: Belch at January 27, 2006 5:52 PM
I noticed that two of the people in the article are school teachers. Seems to be indicative of where our educational system is and where it is going.
Someone once said, "Fads start in NYC, LA, Paris, true trends in society must establish themselves in the Heartland". We have a "fad" going on here by some people who care more about pop culture than trying to establishing themselves as sane adults.
Posted by: Eneils Bailey at January 27, 2006 7:20 PM
The more I hear about moonbats and their crackpot ideas, the less I worry about them. Clealy these freegan moonbats are going to get some sort of disease from eating dumpster food, and rightly so. Its called natural selection (a concept that moonbats are totally opposed to except if its pitted against creationism in a textbook), and hopefully- through abortion and doing stupid moonbatty things like eating garbage, leftists will breed themselves out of existence.
Ah, one can dream!
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Posted by: TLA at January 28, 2006 12:34 AM
TLA, you took the words right out of my fingers. So did ex-expat. In fact, if they don't litigate their way out of their stupidity, they're sure to face their own extinction (and tidy up the gene pool in the process).
Posted by: The MaryHunter at January 28, 2006 11:20 AM
While, as a lifelong tightwad, I will dumpster dive for construction materials, electronics (how do you think I got my current fax machine? Yep. Neighbor was throwing it out cos it didn't work--already had a new one. $0.25 of electronics parts cleaner later: mine, working perfectly for 3 years, now), tools (!?!), etc., food just doesn't really make my list of things to dive for.
BTW, rules of dumpster diving for the kinds of things I stop for: always ask. Never assume folks won't object to you doing it. And besides, by asking, I've gotten a ton of really nice stuff folks had not yet thrown: a truly nice horizontal file cabinet that needed only fifteen minutes of my shop time to become an indispensible (and very nice) addition to my Wonder Woman's home office, for example.
But food? Gimme a break. Yeh, I did some volunteer work once with a group that collected good discards from supermarkets for inspection, cleaning (like removing all but the still good "heart" from a head of lettuce) and then giving to hungry folks, but outa dumpsters? Nope.
So, I'll probably continue to stop every now and then when driving by a home construction site and asking about the scrap lumber (good for small projects: shelving, boxes and the like), but yeh, I think leaving the rotting scrapings from some diseased diner's meal, thrown in a dumpster "petri dish" of swarming bacteria, molds and virii IN the dumpster where they belong is probably a good idea.
Posted by: David at March 20, 2006 3:51 PM
