You can find huge bags of dank food in a dumpster, all perfectly sealed up and free of any contaminants, best places are small bakeries.. donuts, cakes, pies, all still in the boxes and double layered trash bags ^_^
I still remember as a teen my Dad walking into my room and quietly setting some pencils I had put in the trash, on my desk. He simply told me the pencils which were 3-4 inches long, still had plenty of use in them.
Personally as un constitutional as it may sound (slap me) I firmly believe waste should be illegal! Grew up in a conservative walk the talk parents whose adages are branded on my brain. Like use it up, wear it out, find a need or do without. And waste not want not. John Muir was a conservative which is where we get the word conserve. Those terms sure arent the same anymore.
I eat mass-murdered, mass-produced, genetically enhanced, FDA approved MEAT... and I could mop the floor with any of these braided pale scavenging hippies.
started out real hunger when homeless ten years ago,been off the streets for years but always out on bike and in the supermarket bins and unbelievable the good grub thrown away???? years ago it would end up as pigs swill but against the law now because of foot and mouth.wot a waste of good grub,its the new disposable society thats so wasteful.years ago if you stole a loaf of bread they sent you to australia and now the bins are always full of it.!!!!!!!!!
Well, I guess if you don't care if your clothes fit and you don't know what good food tastes like, it is a good way to go. My dad is 91 years old and he lives like this - he is also a millionaire. Personally, I think he is insane, but that is just my opinion and I love him anyway.
I'm in love with these kids! If you're reading this, don't listen to anybody who says you have to grow up and give up your ideals and that you'll become capitalist assholes. I'm almost 40, have never broken down or given in, and it's starting to pay off. I finally do what I love for money, but I still dumpster dive and thrift shop and go to Planned Parenthood for my health care! Ha!! From a tattooed lady in NYC with love. :)
Whilst i agree with the idea, its very obvious that general public perception & some ''followers'' will abuse it.
That being said i'm DAMN near sure that there was an episode of ''wife swap'' with a freegan & teh same guy was on Jeremy Kyles show of cult religions (Children of God, far as i'm aware the Phoenix family was part of it)
So like....kinda easy to see why people think these are nutters
@tvrulesnation people that waste there time watching the jeremy kyle show are fucking nutters. fuck what the general public or you think....most people are total muppet idiots.
This is just a way for a bunch of lazy middle class pretentious shits to live off the government. If you really cared about the waste you'd protest or donate it to people who don't actually have the choice between raiding bins & getting a job + home (ie homeless folks) not take it for yourself & then claim what you are doing is a ''holier than thou'' approach compared to the general population.
Hence why people laugh at freegans their philosophy is fucking terrible & flawed
@tvrulesnation im not a freegan. but all theyre doing is getting waste out of dumpsters and other belongings to make use of it. and by the way theyre not living off your precious goverment, remember all it would end up as is WASTE if they didnt take it. hence FREEgan. look at the pros and cons, and stop watching so much mindless jeremy kyle bullshit.
More than likely they are claiming the dole & other benefits, & you still haven't argued them taking stuff well at all. Like i said they take a ''holier than thou'' approach & instead of doing something useful such as donating it to a greater cause where less fortunate people need it, they choose to ''protest'' by making the choice to take this for themselves. Honestly its ludicrous.
As for Jeremy Kyle 2 freegans on Wife Swap were also on ''jeremy kyle religion or cult'' episode
@tvrulesnation probably are claiming the dole. but thats not fact and is founded on a prejudice. anyway, like people who blame imigrants when you'd do the same thing if you were in their shoes....i dont get why people cant see its actually the immigration system in place that is creating what theyre complaining about. but instead they hate others and become racists. everyone is just trying to fucking live in this world. if you look hard enough you'll see through your hierachial wage/class view
I highly doubt many of them wouldn't claim the dole & child benefits if they have any. Think about it freeganism only gets you so far in terms of necessity (heat, shelter education etc). Like i keep saying these people rather than do a just cause like donate what they find to charity for people who actually need it and work thus sustaining the economy, they choose live off of the governemnt on SOME level & claim what they are doing is good or economical/enviormental
I've yet to be in anyway convinced that what Freegans do is the best alternate option, you look at say priests they get basic things such as food a bed & a low wage. Yet they are out there with the homeless & poor areas helping
I've seen & talked with former drug addicts in rehab who also talk there, helped in homeless shelters, donated food & am vegetarian.
So who is the one really helping the freegan or people like myself?
I'm not trying to boast just giving an example too
As for immigration its got NOTHING to do with this arguement & you only supplemented it into your counter as a means of distracting from the topic at hand or possibly to give an example. I've read it, agree with it & discard it. That being said (just leave this specific comment as my own opinion) many here in my country get free housing & instead of working when their permits have come to allow them work, they choose to beg & are VERY persistent with it.
9/10 i would agree that those shows are mindless bullshit but this one was actually a damn good documentation of a public debate (well slaughter in this case against the cult leader) that was actually quite interesting.
My jeremy Kyle comment was just two things i managed to link together from two random viewings of TV which i rarely use.
All i was saying was that its easy to see why people view freegans so negatively apart from what i said, them also being associated now with Cults
@Yevilyn Sounds like you have the start of some good sauce. Be sort of tough to make it through the year on though. I've a small garden myself and it can be a lot of work. Not like I don't have room for a larger one, I just don't want all of the work it entails. My small garden has already shown me how much work it is.
@1pcfred My plan is to buy land large enough to create a permaculture food forest instead of using agriculture. Its a big project but why not eh? less effort- let nature do all the hard work hehee. I love permaculture <3
@Yevilyn I have plenty of the regular kind of forest. Mainly because I don't do any work on that land at all. It is my buffer. I love my privacy! Only things making a living on that land though are ticks and snakes. Oh, and a few thousand pole pines too I suppose.
@1pcfred You use it as a buffer? why not have a edible buffer? if I were you I'd get Jeoff Lawton on it! search in youtube for "Introduction to Permaculture Design DVD Trailer" or maybe "Lawton's Guide To Permaculture Design and Strategy" the man is a genius.
@Yevilyn If this Lawton character is so smart then he can come by and work my land easily, and also grow the crops 70 feet high like my present trees are. I already stated why I leave my land how it is if you just took the time to read and understand what I'd already wrote. You've obviously no idea what an undertaking it is to clear undeveloped land. I do, because I have.
@1pcfred There is no need to be rude. This conversation is over now and I'm sorry if I upset you while I was sharing my interests. Ofcourse I don't understand how much of an undertaking it could be, I'm not old enough! but if you don't think its a good idea don't do it, like I care if you do or not, its just a subject I ended up on as I though you might have liked it. obviously I was wrong.
@Yevilyn Then don't be rude. You haven't upset me. Hear what people say, not what you want to hear. Most of my property is untouched wilderness. Heck I haven't even been to some places in it. Plenty of people farm around me but they have a lot more acreage than I have. No one on my block farms, and lots of them have larger properties than I do. I like to do a little gardening in season but I'm not about to cut down acres of woods to expand.
i have a great job in an opticians (in other words I can buy my food and drive to work if i choose) but Im slowly changing towards this kind of lifestyle. Its morally right, its great for the planet, it challenges consumerism, it makes you creative. Nice vid, thank you.
Just to let you know Most freegans do have jobs and support themselves but get a enjoyable feeling from recycling waste that nobody wants and is just going to be thrown away. Like me. It feels much better to eat for free and reduce waste, and you cant disagree with that.
they can claim what they want. they are the consumers of this society. take everything they can and produce nothing for the common wealth. take public housing. take public utilities. take public health care. and do nothing for their fellow man. while farmers and doctors they see as owing something to them. pay no taxes to support the lifestyle. their fellow man is there to provide for them and their needs. give them a job application and see how they use it!
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To "takepills": Yeah we should all quit our jobs and scavange like these dreadlocked hobos. Yay I want to eat out of the garbage bin every day! Quit fooling yourself and get a job.
I tried that freecylce web site and it sucks. A bunch of junk.
People should do as they please. You won't believe how much trash big retail stores waste. Instead of making a donation effort, all returned and audited desks, tables, chairs, beds, blankets, etc. All into the trash.
It is against the law in some places to donate the food. I wish it wasn't but it is. The FDA in the States is so rough and stores don't want to get sued if some one gets sick off of their produce that is out of date.
Here we have to take our grass clippings to a community compost pile out in the country. During the summer people who are too lazy to keep up with their gardens often dump their overgrown produce and/or just pull up the entire plants with the produce still on them. I salvage what I can from that. I still have about 2 dozen uncut pumpkins that came out of somebody's backyard last fall. I've also gotten apples, peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, and enough squashes to can about 40 quarts of soup.
working is for lazy people. working is the most dangerous, unproductive, ir-response-able thing u could possibly do. quit ur job and get a life. if it needs to be it will be for free :) money is for poor people. materialism is for the insecure. governments create chaos. laws makes people criminals. anything good in the world came from people who chose to make a life rather than a living.
@takepills Not always here mate. My parents worked their whole lives so we had it easier. I am using the money to donate to others and I work very hard and help others. Money handled responsibly is a good thing and could help others around the world!!!
people that "work" are bums. stop being lazy and evolve to freeganism ie our natural state. if it needs to be it will be for free. ...eating kills u anyway. we are really only just feeding our emotions. we don't need to eat or drink anything to survive. srsly! youtube jericho sunfire. play all day have fun u won :)
I go to thrift stores where stuff is cheaper but if the church does not pay taxes for the donation then why is the stuff not free at the Salvation Army and other churches? These people have the great free stuff campaign for clothes down to a science. I love the freegan idea and if there was no waste created they would have nothing to live off of. So why not live off the waste that others create? Trash is treasure!
@xandyxvx The freegan ethic is impeccably consequentialist: if you don't want to give your money to people who exploit animals, but enjoy eating meat, cheese, and eggs - get them from a dumpster. :)
I'm all for them reclaiming trash, just not for their socialist point of view. They are doing the work to reclaim this food/goods, and there's nothing wrong with that. There IS something wrong with a person sitting on his ass and waiting for someone to bring them free shit without doing a damned thing to get it.
Food is not a fundamental right. It is something that we have to work for, and I admire these guys for having an alternative way to work for it.
Those who are questioning the legality of this need to do some research. Once things have been thrown out, be it food, clothing, or other consumables, it's public domain. There are many situations where when dumpster diving you'll be liable for prosecution for trespass, but bearing in mind the legal costs, bad publicity, etc, to my knowledge nobody has yet been prosecuted for dumpster diving alone.
Really enjoyed this although the first woman's questioning intonation was getting on my nerves a bit, but that's probably just because I'm a miserable old git.
also its a way of eating meat without killing an animal and the only other way you can do that is by eating roadkill and thats cool :))) everyday i find perfectly good meat and cook it and eat it otherwise i would be a vegetarian ,im from denmark and theres much that goes to waste here
I still get things like Red Star nutritional yeast (tasty and for B12) from the store, but bought in bulk, so no packaging... and flax and chia seeds for omega 3's and coconut oil to help absorb it and stuff... I also find it hard to get good safe produce from the dumpsters. But I've found bakeries that throw away perfectly good, clean/bagged vegan pitas and other breads that still have a bunch of days on them - it's amazing! Also I've found lighting fixtures, canned stuff, etc...
I hate things like this...I don't hate it but I dislike how I'm supposed to feel bad for being a consumer, for liking nice things, for enjoying my status in society. Enjoying good education, good health care, good everything...I don't think that my bitching about having when there are have nots is going to give them anything. I know that's utterly American but it's how I truly feel.
Well you can have a good education and health care and stuff without being an over-consumer :-) I work and stuff and I could buy a new lamp for my place - but why support the use of resources and energy to create new stuff when I could save something perfectly good and useful from being sent to the landfill, either as it is or with minor adjustments? Sewing and repairing clothes is good too, they look nicer than newly produced stuff often, and don't impact the environment with new dyes etc.
@Vegannibal I completely agree. I am well educated, have a family and a job. I don't "need" to dumpster dive or have used items, but I also don't "need" to have the latest and greatest just b/c. I find more satisfaction in used items and free things then spending my hard earned money on something so unnecessary. For many people I think it is more of an issue of pride. I am not ashamed of who I am or how I choose to live my life. I am thankful for everything I have no matter how used it is.
What's the point...you can live in a house and recycle, cut waste down, ride a bike and generally help the environment. You don't need to be some sort of tramp digging through bins, in any case I thought it was illegal to root through other people's rubbish.........
Even if it is illegal, is it a good law? If you throw something out, doesn't it mean that you don't want it anymore? So why can't somebody else take it and use it if they want to? Of course if you throw away papers that have some private info about you, you should always rip those into pieces, even if most people going thru the trash are not interested in them, but food. That's common sense. Other than that, I can't really see a problem in people taking other people's UNWANTED items.
I get tired of hearing how freegans are making a politiical statement...most people I meet doing this have too. Because they live on disability, they have health problems, they lost their jobs, or don't make enough money to eat! This isn't a political statement, this is survival!!!! It's not glamorous or trendy, it's necessary!
i dont even understand why people think this is gross. i mean, is there some sort of threshold that something goes over when it is thrown away to make it somehow not food?
how the hell do you figure that? the homeless get so much food at soup kitchens and the salvation army as it is.. I should know I was homeless for almost 2 years and lived at a sally ann hostel, the food was okay, nothing great but enough to live on.. and NO freegens dont steal homeless peoples food, that is just stuipidity to think such. THERE IS SOOO MUCH OVER PRODUCTION OF FOOD IN THIS WORLD BY FACTORY FARMS< and that is the problem, not what your talking about.
and you're one of the biggest consumers in the world. IMO that is more freaky than conscious, CONSCIENTIOUS minimalist consumption. How low do you have to be to insult people who are just trying to be good to the world and minimize waste? Shame on you. Freeganism is a very noble and honorable thing to do (by freganism I mean taking food from the trash, not just eating whatever people give you).
my garbage is my garbage i still own it! This may sound absurd but PERSONAL stuff is in there and it is an INVASION OF MY PRIVACY! yes we throw away too much stuff but even supermarkets throw office docs and visa/amex receipts in THERE garbage that is why it is ILLEGAL. It is sad the amount we throw out... but is also sad when we have to lock our garbage. i believe in not waisting food but stay out of our garbage!
agreed, the adventure aspect is what keeps me going after 8 years everyday is an adventure foraging in dumpsters, you never know what you will find.. some days you don't find much cool stuff but wow other days you find unbelievable stuff thats mindblowing and even expensive stuff, so persistance is the key in this game.
I've lived on a couple of protest sites and we all survived in this way getting our food from skips or gifts from those sympathetic to our cause.The food was good and never made me ill,I was living in the brecon beaconson the pipeline protest and titnore woods near worthing,enjoying the fresh air and have never been healthier.I'm asthmatic and never suffered with it during those days,as soon as I returned to "normality" the asthma returned!!
As a pretty much raw vegan (raising livestock is wasteful as well as cruel), do you have any suggestions for how I could have food that was going to go to waste? I have never bought a new piece of furniture, I dive for that...
Take your backpack or big material bag to the grocery if you go to the grocery. Buy in bulk to eliminate packaging. Use those bags repeatedly. Don't buy new garbage bags, find some old plastic bags. Go vegan to conserve resources (and be good to you and others).
all the plastic bottles drive me nuts too.. before they started big with bulk stores but now you dont see them as much, I wonder if they are trying to phase them out.. YOUR right they should have more builk food stores so you can bag your own food and eliminate all the plastic bottle production.
I don't think food should be free to humans all because society has advanced, and I come from a poor country. I think the ability to access food should not be taken away such as some African Nations who take the food surplus and keep it from the people- Giving food away sounds like rationing to me and historically that has been despotic.
Personally, having come from a poor country eating other people's garbage is not my idea of conserving food- not wasting what's in my fridge is.
He didn't say food should be given away or that it should be free. In biblical times the poor were allowed to glean in the fields of landowners, gathering the grain that the reapers dropped as they harvested the field. Anyone willing to glean had access to however much grain s/he could gather. In more recent times the Native Americans didn't keep domestic herds. Wild game could be caught and eaten by anyone with the skill to catch it. Mass hunger and starvation are relatively recent problems.
so is mass production FACTORY FARMING... kind of ironic isnt it??? the more they do this monsanto type chemical factory farming the more hunger there is in the world... the food system is broke obviously, even chefs I know personally tell me this. We should just all go back to farm our own food ..... everyone get an acre land and grow and do your own food.. problem solved. I can't exactly put a cow on my apartment balcony to milk now can I??? so much for technological advancements in the world.
ratzingersarat, I wonder if there is enough good farming space for everyone on Earth to have an acre right now? If we are all vegans and freegans, sure. Not if we're funneling it all into livestock though.
I totally feel you on the monsanto thing. The stuff we are doing with farming right now is just a ticking time-bomb, to anyone who has an ounce of common (maybe not-so-common) sense.
I live in Canada, and the majority of the population lives on the american canadian border, there is sooo much land here that is NOT farmed its unbelievable, so its a total myth that the majority of people in the world could not farm 1 acre of land I believe and also the people that could farm could support the people who couldn't if everyone shared their food like it was supposed to be in the first place. arrggghhhhh this factory farming makes my blood boil.. it has to go.
1) its just another strain of FLU, go rest and have some soup, cheers, your fine.
2)we wouldnt have this issure in the first place if people didnt bunch them up and bunch them up and OF COURSE they are going to all get sick if one is. in egypt, they are killing all of their pigs because of this.
Soybean production is a tricky one, now the amzone basin is being clearcut of all the forests to grow more and more soya beans, by big corporations like monsanto, and even monsanto has a GMO soybean now, so be careful with soybeans. Also there is proof now medically that soybeans mess with the female hormones, giving bad results. From a taste point of view, being a chef, I would say soybeans are absolutely tasteless, so I have no use for them. The chinese ferment them to get extra flavor,
ach ja... everything has a catch. i grow my own because i use them in everything and i get the soymilk from my neighbors because i dig it more than milk, both because of factory farming and taste.
and 80-90% of all they soybeans are grown to feed livestock. That's extremely inefficient.
I boycott Monsanto entirely. It's really easy to do as a vegan. Even if a soybean is non-GMO I still don't like soy, and nothing I eat has any soy in it whatsoever.
I make my own almond milk (easy, cheap, delicious, nutritious) and sometimes rice or hemp milk. There are many options.
There are a lot of different studies that say different things about the hormones though. Lots of meddled info.
I don't know why it wouldn't be.. it's not a drug. Hemp seeds are a superfood. I think I heard something of them being legalized in the states after a bunch of people made a big case about it being unreasonable that they were illegal, since they are healthy and not a drug, just like poppy seeds for instance. You can order hemp seed powder and hemp seeds online anyways, they are a very high yield and environmentally friendly crop since they need no pesticides, and extremely nutrient rich.
Take into account that a lot of medical proof is debatable, meddled with, and spun in different ways. I've read writings of scientists who both praise and smash soy.
In either case, whether it's OK for you or not, I don't eat it and won't until I know more - and there are other things that are much more nutritious than it in the first place, and do whatever soy can do but better, namely:
Flax, hemp seeds, quinoa, etc.
I live in southern Canada too :) nice to meet you.
This is true, as is evident now with the raw milk versus dont drink milk at all debate... of course the dont drink people say drink soy milk instead, when soy hasnt even been investigated properly I think. Really aside from the medical research the first meeting anyone has with any food is 1)how does it looks and 2) how does it taste..... when I first tasted raw soy beens off the field, I was disgusted, it was the most tasteless thing I ever put in my mouth, like eating paper.... that stuck.
Hm :-( But I'm a "don't drink milk at all (unless it's from your own mother, which is what it's meant for)" person... and I don't ever say to drink soy milk instead. If you want something else that is lovely and milky, I'd go for almond milk, rice milk, or hemp milk. My favorite right now being almond milk.
ahhh where is southern Canada??? lol ... when I was in alberta there they said ontario was eastern canada, forgetten that martimes is the eastern part of canada, I think we forget how big canada truly is as a country... so much population is localized in Canada in pockets... and divided from each other geographically.
Lol Southern Canada. I just meant that I'm close to the border ;-) Yeah Canada is fricken huge, so huge that people in different parts of it don't even know much about the other parts of it (except for some wanderers like me).
Oh I think that soy and soymilk taste nasty btw. Some fake soy "meats" can be ridiculously tasty though but I stay away from them anyways, haha. I'm not talking about tofu (which I don't hate hate persay but it doesn't match up nutritionally to my hemp, flax etc)
freegan forever! (i started seriously a year ago and have never eaten so well in my life. The best of everything. Free. And that's from just one single supermarket dumpster visited daily)
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We should make freeganism illegael and then provide jobs that try and stop freegans from doing their freeloading.. this way eating trash is cool and encouraged, which, in theory, would promote more freeganism and less waste, while providing jobs for jessyc1 and his/her posse. We could also have a class system like in India... everyone is happy there, right?
Traveling FREE is the best lifestyle I know of (:
You can find huge bags of dank food in a dumpster, all perfectly sealed up and free of any contaminants, best places are small bakeries.. donuts, cakes, pies, all still in the boxes and double layered trash bags ^_^
StonedSpangleBanner 2 weeks ago
Fuck all Woody-Allen Butt-loving Pedophile Freegans
Mikuruification 1 month ago
Wonderful stuff! It's so refreshing to see people thinking in this unbiased, unbiggoted, logical, moral and objective way
FreePress1000 2 months ago
Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without ! Waste enslaves us all.
barto11000 4 months ago
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asubjectiveopinion 5 months ago
@asubjectiveopinion was thinking the same
not allowing to embed a video like this? this sounds dirty to me.
Quilbo 2 months ago
Find a way to do it indoors. Never live outdoors. You can get sick or harmed.
jonssyy 6 months ago in playlist Not bad
I still remember as a teen my Dad walking into my room and quietly setting some pencils I had put in the trash, on my desk. He simply told me the pencils which were 3-4 inches long, still had plenty of use in them.
MotherLodeBeth 7 months ago
Personally as un constitutional as it may sound (slap me) I firmly believe waste should be illegal! Grew up in a conservative walk the talk parents whose adages are branded on my brain. Like use it up, wear it out, find a need or do without. And waste not want not. John Muir was a conservative which is where we get the word conserve. Those terms sure arent the same anymore.
MotherLodeBeth 7 months ago
Most freegans work, and most I know have excellent educations. So I dont know where some people get off thinking they are lazy do nothings.
MotherLodeBeth 7 months ago
@MotherLodeBeth Yep I work, but i'm not wasting my money on lord Sainsbury, I take everything I can get from their bins and stores.
Thanks for the support :)
misternylon 7 months ago
I eat mass-murdered, mass-produced, genetically enhanced, FDA approved MEAT... and I could mop the floor with any of these braided pale scavenging hippies.
Disgusting!
00zzzyy 8 months ago
@00zzzyy Lol. People would take any movement more seriously if they were not always fronted by fay dread wearing nambies from middle class homes.
Up the fairweather revolution.
By the way, i'm part freegan but anti dreads on white sappy kids.
misternylon 7 months ago
:) lovely film <3
britmusic17 8 months ago
Your only as free as you can afford..
silversobe 8 months ago
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1pcfred 1 month ago
Freegan just another word for tramp
BamBooUK 8 months ago
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@BamBooUK Consumer is just another word for slave.
1pcfred 1 month ago
I,m a wumble...
munchchewy0 9 months ago
started out real hunger when homeless ten years ago,been off the streets for years but always out on bike and in the supermarket bins and unbelievable the good grub thrown away???? years ago it would end up as pigs swill but against the law now because of foot and mouth.wot a waste of good grub,its the new disposable society thats so wasteful.years ago if you stole a loaf of bread they sent you to australia and now the bins are always full of it.!!!!!!!!!
krisyung 10 months ago
:)
Cameo1214 10 months ago
hipsters are such lames
callingfratonrouge 11 months ago
Well, I guess if you don't care if your clothes fit and you don't know what good food tastes like, it is a good way to go. My dad is 91 years old and he lives like this - he is also a millionaire. Personally, I think he is insane, but that is just my opinion and I love him anyway.
nealart 11 months ago
Gemma is as sweet as it gets. Great karma. Thanx to you all for the vid.
cosmosyy 11 months ago
I'm in love with these kids! If you're reading this, don't listen to anybody who says you have to grow up and give up your ideals and that you'll become capitalist assholes. I'm almost 40, have never broken down or given in, and it's starting to pay off. I finally do what I love for money, but I still dumpster dive and thrift shop and go to Planned Parenthood for my health care! Ha!! From a tattooed lady in NYC with love. :)
spershall 1 year ago
@spershall Yay!
whathuhwhere 1 year ago
These hippy creeps will be capitalist tyrants by their 40's. The Hippies from the 60's run america now and it's a greedy police state.
Pfsif 1 year ago
Parasits of society
Trickroad 1 year ago
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@Trickroad you fucking idiot. you fucking blind man.
anaemiabag 1 year ago
@Trickroad learn to spell fuckwit
anaemiabag 1 year ago
Whilst i agree with the idea, its very obvious that general public perception & some ''followers'' will abuse it.
That being said i'm DAMN near sure that there was an episode of ''wife swap'' with a freegan & teh same guy was on Jeremy Kyles show of cult religions (Children of God, far as i'm aware the Phoenix family was part of it)
So like....kinda easy to see why people think these are nutters
tvrulesnation 1 year ago
@tvrulesnation people that waste there time watching the jeremy kyle show are fucking nutters. fuck what the general public or you think....most people are total muppet idiots.
anaemiabag 1 year ago
@anaemiabag
This is just a way for a bunch of lazy middle class pretentious shits to live off the government. If you really cared about the waste you'd protest or donate it to people who don't actually have the choice between raiding bins & getting a job + home (ie homeless folks) not take it for yourself & then claim what you are doing is a ''holier than thou'' approach compared to the general population.
Hence why people laugh at freegans their philosophy is fucking terrible & flawed
tvrulesnation 1 year ago
@tvrulesnation im not a freegan. but all theyre doing is getting waste out of dumpsters and other belongings to make use of it. and by the way theyre not living off your precious goverment, remember all it would end up as is WASTE if they didnt take it. hence FREEgan. look at the pros and cons, and stop watching so much mindless jeremy kyle bullshit.
anaemiabag 1 year ago
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More than likely they are claiming the dole & other benefits, & you still haven't argued them taking stuff well at all. Like i said they take a ''holier than thou'' approach & instead of doing something useful such as donating it to a greater cause where less fortunate people need it, they choose to ''protest'' by making the choice to take this for themselves. Honestly its ludicrous.
As for Jeremy Kyle 2 freegans on Wife Swap were also on ''jeremy kyle religion or cult'' episode
tvrulesnation 1 year ago
@tvrulesnation probably are claiming the dole. but thats not fact and is founded on a prejudice. anyway, like people who blame imigrants when you'd do the same thing if you were in their shoes....i dont get why people cant see its actually the immigration system in place that is creating what theyre complaining about. but instead they hate others and become racists. everyone is just trying to fucking live in this world. if you look hard enough you'll see through your hierachial wage/class view
anaemiabag 1 year ago
@anaemiabag
I highly doubt many of them wouldn't claim the dole & child benefits if they have any. Think about it freeganism only gets you so far in terms of necessity (heat, shelter education etc). Like i keep saying these people rather than do a just cause like donate what they find to charity for people who actually need it and work thus sustaining the economy, they choose live off of the governemnt on SOME level & claim what they are doing is good or economical/enviormental
tvrulesnation 1 year ago
@tvrulesnation
I've yet to be in anyway convinced that what Freegans do is the best alternate option, you look at say priests they get basic things such as food a bed & a low wage. Yet they are out there with the homeless & poor areas helping
I've seen & talked with former drug addicts in rehab who also talk there, helped in homeless shelters, donated food & am vegetarian.
So who is the one really helping the freegan or people like myself?
I'm not trying to boast just giving an example too
tvrulesnation 1 year ago
@anaemiabag
As for immigration its got NOTHING to do with this arguement & you only supplemented it into your counter as a means of distracting from the topic at hand or possibly to give an example. I've read it, agree with it & discard it. That being said (just leave this specific comment as my own opinion) many here in my country get free housing & instead of working when their permits have come to allow them work, they choose to beg & are VERY persistent with it.
tvrulesnation 1 year ago
@anaemiabag
9/10 i would agree that those shows are mindless bullshit but this one was actually a damn good documentation of a public debate (well slaughter in this case against the cult leader) that was actually quite interesting.
My jeremy Kyle comment was just two things i managed to link together from two random viewings of TV which i rarely use.
All i was saying was that its easy to see why people view freegans so negatively apart from what i said, them also being associated now with Cults
tvrulesnation 1 year ago
@tvrulesnation Oh so you think the philosophy of waste everything is better do you?
1pcfred 1 month ago
You see the blue bin at 3:29, some of them are locked with like a hexagonal key type thing, how do you get into them?
TheGraniteFlaneur 1 year ago
"you'd think free food or free access to food would be a fundamental part of human life but for some reason it isn't."
I always wondered that too... Thanks for the upload!
Yevilyn 1 year ago
@Yevilyn Ever made any food? By make I do not mean prepare, I mean raise, grow etc. People do like to be compensated for their efforts.
1pcfred 1 month ago
@1pcfred ah the usual, tomatoes, onions, garlic- can't grow much though in my tiny council back garden.
Yevilyn 1 month ago
@Yevilyn Sounds like you have the start of some good sauce. Be sort of tough to make it through the year on though. I've a small garden myself and it can be a lot of work. Not like I don't have room for a larger one, I just don't want all of the work it entails. My small garden has already shown me how much work it is.
1pcfred 1 month ago
@1pcfred My plan is to buy land large enough to create a permaculture food forest instead of using agriculture. Its a big project but why not eh? less effort- let nature do all the hard work hehee. I love permaculture <3
Yevilyn 1 month ago
@Yevilyn I have plenty of the regular kind of forest. Mainly because I don't do any work on that land at all. It is my buffer. I love my privacy! Only things making a living on that land though are ticks and snakes. Oh, and a few thousand pole pines too I suppose.
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Yevilyn 1 month ago
@1pcfred You use it as a buffer? why not have a edible buffer? if I were you I'd get Jeoff Lawton on it! search in youtube for "Introduction to Permaculture Design DVD Trailer" or maybe "Lawton's Guide To Permaculture Design and Strategy" the man is a genius.
Yevilyn 1 month ago
@Yevilyn If this Lawton character is so smart then he can come by and work my land easily, and also grow the crops 70 feet high like my present trees are. I already stated why I leave my land how it is if you just took the time to read and understand what I'd already wrote. You've obviously no idea what an undertaking it is to clear undeveloped land. I do, because I have.
1pcfred 1 month ago
@1pcfred There is no need to be rude. This conversation is over now and I'm sorry if I upset you while I was sharing my interests. Ofcourse I don't understand how much of an undertaking it could be, I'm not old enough! but if you don't think its a good idea don't do it, like I care if you do or not, its just a subject I ended up on as I though you might have liked it. obviously I was wrong.
Yevilyn 1 month ago
@Yevilyn Then don't be rude. You haven't upset me. Hear what people say, not what you want to hear. Most of my property is untouched wilderness. Heck I haven't even been to some places in it. Plenty of people farm around me but they have a lot more acreage than I have. No one on my block farms, and lots of them have larger properties than I do. I like to do a little gardening in season but I'm not about to cut down acres of woods to expand.
1pcfred 1 month ago
as freegan, i can say the peeps featured featured are truley hardcore. send my love to the hippie chicks (esp gemma):P peace.
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deddokatana 1 year ago
Great story.
greenmarcosu 1 year ago
WHA? £200 on food? my family spends less than £100 a week an there are 7 of us
strangestkidaround 1 year ago
i have a great job in an opticians (in other words I can buy my food and drive to work if i choose) but Im slowly changing towards this kind of lifestyle. Its morally right, its great for the planet, it challenges consumerism, it makes you creative. Nice vid, thank you.
NoOneGreaterThanHe 1 year ago
Just to let you know Most freegans do have jobs and support themselves but get a enjoyable feeling from recycling waste that nobody wants and is just going to be thrown away. Like me. It feels much better to eat for free and reduce waste, and you cant disagree with that.
Mod2ForPrez 1 year ago
Interesting stuff.
Humans are meant to be viruses depleting all the goodness the earth can provide, swallowing and destroying life to ensure their own.
Rebellious humans try to find a balance to not take up so much, but they are still depleting the earth.
And this guy reminds me of the guy who played tony blair in the queen movie.
petemayo 1 year ago
they can claim what they want. they are the consumers of this society. take everything they can and produce nothing for the common wealth. take public housing. take public utilities. take public health care. and do nothing for their fellow man. while farmers and doctors they see as owing something to them. pay no taxes to support the lifestyle. their fellow man is there to provide for them and their needs. give them a job application and see how they use it!
onemarktwoyou 1 year ago
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To "takepills": Yeah we should all quit our jobs and scavange like these dreadlocked hobos. Yay I want to eat out of the garbage bin every day! Quit fooling yourself and get a job.
I tried that freecylce web site and it sucks. A bunch of junk.
JazmineDancer 1 year ago
what's getting a job gonna do?
People should do as they please. You won't believe how much trash big retail stores waste. Instead of making a donation effort, all returned and audited desks, tables, chairs, beds, blankets, etc. All into the trash.
00rpc 1 year ago 12
It is against the law in some places to donate the food. I wish it wasn't but it is. The FDA in the States is so rough and stores don't want to get sued if some one gets sick off of their produce that is out of date.
falsepride 1 year ago
Who pays for the flat that they live in? It is nice, so some one works for it!
falsepride 1 year ago
Here we have to take our grass clippings to a community compost pile out in the country. During the summer people who are too lazy to keep up with their gardens often dump their overgrown produce and/or just pull up the entire plants with the produce still on them. I salvage what I can from that. I still have about 2 dozen uncut pumpkins that came out of somebody's backyard last fall. I've also gotten apples, peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, and enough squashes to can about 40 quarts of soup.
hippytreehugger4ever 1 year ago
the statistic in America for how much of food is thrown away is actually %90. Ridiculous, eh?
olishant 2 years ago
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dont you mean being a free loading jew
idonthaveacoolcar 2 years ago
working is for lazy people. working is the most dangerous, unproductive, ir-response-able thing u could possibly do. quit ur job and get a life. if it needs to be it will be for free :) money is for poor people. materialism is for the insecure. governments create chaos. laws makes people criminals. anything good in the world came from people who chose to make a life rather than a living.
takepills 2 years ago
@takepills Not always here mate. My parents worked their whole lives so we had it easier. I am using the money to donate to others and I work very hard and help others. Money handled responsibly is a good thing and could help others around the world!!!
falsepride 1 year ago
Freegans: ie A BUM!
creaturebotman 2 years ago
If anything, they work harder and appreciate what they have more then those of us who live in excess constantly, thinking that it's"the good life".
LastDayInSin 2 years ago
people that "work" are bums. stop being lazy and evolve to freeganism ie our natural state. if it needs to be it will be for free. ...eating kills u anyway. we are really only just feeding our emotions. we don't need to eat or drink anything to survive. srsly! youtube jericho sunfire. play all day have fun u won :)
takepills 2 years ago
WTF?
creaturebotman 2 years ago
oppurtunists rather...
God3luv 1 year ago
LOL. Good that I don't have to pay for them living as rats.
WoodyMonk 2 years ago
These Brits' are smart.Capitalism does create enormious waste.
MrMonetaryslave 2 years ago
I go to thrift stores where stuff is cheaper but if the church does not pay taxes for the donation then why is the stuff not free at the Salvation Army and other churches? These people have the great free stuff campaign for clothes down to a science. I love the freegan idea and if there was no waste created they would have nothing to live off of. So why not live off the waste that others create? Trash is treasure!
falsepride 2 years ago
not all freegans are vegans?
xandyxvx 2 years ago
@xandyxvx The freegan ethic is impeccably consequentialist: if you don't want to give your money to people who exploit animals, but enjoy eating meat, cheese, and eggs - get them from a dumpster. :)
distanceaxe 2 years ago
well said
Epexode 2 years ago
I'm all for them reclaiming trash, just not for their socialist point of view. They are doing the work to reclaim this food/goods, and there's nothing wrong with that. There IS something wrong with a person sitting on his ass and waiting for someone to bring them free shit without doing a damned thing to get it.
Food is not a fundamental right. It is something that we have to work for, and I admire these guys for having an alternative way to work for it.
Amy31415 2 years ago 2
Those who are questioning the legality of this need to do some research. Once things have been thrown out, be it food, clothing, or other consumables, it's public domain. There are many situations where when dumpster diving you'll be liable for prosecution for trespass, but bearing in mind the legal costs, bad publicity, etc, to my knowledge nobody has yet been prosecuted for dumpster diving alone.
sonofklickman14 2 years ago
@sonofklickman14 Many places have ordinances that prohibit the activity of scavenging.
1pcfred 1 month ago
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These idiots are traitors to sanity.
LuckyPierre78 2 years ago
nice job on the making of this video! i love the girl in corn rolls!
tubofbologna 2 years ago 3
Really enjoyed this although the first woman's questioning intonation was getting on my nerves a bit, but that's probably just because I'm a miserable old git.
:)
asubjectiveopinion 2 years ago
love it! :) I wish I had a garden though so I could grow my own :( 3 years to wait for an allotment!
19eilidh87 2 years ago
The problem with freeganism is that it is an individualist answer to this problem and that is not enough.
smoskprosk 2 years ago
Yes, but collectivism always seem to get infiltrated by the workerists and who wants anything to do with those wankers?
asubjectiveopinion 2 years ago
Is a part of the solution... where do you can find a total solution for all the problems in this world... The change start individually...!
Lug16 2 years ago
but isn't it better than not doing anything?
arghzombies 2 years ago
also its a way of eating meat without killing an animal and the only other way you can do that is by eating roadkill and thats cool :))) everyday i find perfectly good meat and cook it and eat it otherwise i would be a vegetarian ,im from denmark and theres much that goes to waste here
stiggyh 2 years ago
thank you free reel films! it's just great!
atleastwehope 2 years ago 2
I still get things like Red Star nutritional yeast (tasty and for B12) from the store, but bought in bulk, so no packaging... and flax and chia seeds for omega 3's and coconut oil to help absorb it and stuff... I also find it hard to get good safe produce from the dumpsters. But I've found bakeries that throw away perfectly good, clean/bagged vegan pitas and other breads that still have a bunch of days on them - it's amazing! Also I've found lighting fixtures, canned stuff, etc...
Vegannibal 2 years ago 2
But kudos to the documentary director (whoever you are) very well done.
mozzpod 2 years ago 2
I hate things like this...I don't hate it but I dislike how I'm supposed to feel bad for being a consumer, for liking nice things, for enjoying my status in society. Enjoying good education, good health care, good everything...I don't think that my bitching about having when there are have nots is going to give them anything. I know that's utterly American but it's how I truly feel.
mozzpod 2 years ago
Well you can have a good education and health care and stuff without being an over-consumer :-) I work and stuff and I could buy a new lamp for my place - but why support the use of resources and energy to create new stuff when I could save something perfectly good and useful from being sent to the landfill, either as it is or with minor adjustments? Sewing and repairing clothes is good too, they look nicer than newly produced stuff often, and don't impact the environment with new dyes etc.
Vegannibal 2 years ago 12
@Vegannibal I completely agree. I am well educated, have a family and a job. I don't "need" to dumpster dive or have used items, but I also don't "need" to have the latest and greatest just b/c. I find more satisfaction in used items and free things then spending my hard earned money on something so unnecessary. For many people I think it is more of an issue of pride. I am not ashamed of who I am or how I choose to live my life. I am thankful for everything I have no matter how used it is.
mac2404 11 months ago 2
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Freegans are glorified bums
maddoxfanx 2 years ago
What's the point...you can live in a house and recycle, cut waste down, ride a bike and generally help the environment. You don't need to be some sort of tramp digging through bins, in any case I thought it was illegal to root through other people's rubbish.........
shelljell26 2 years ago
Even if it is illegal, is it a good law? If you throw something out, doesn't it mean that you don't want it anymore? So why can't somebody else take it and use it if they want to? Of course if you throw away papers that have some private info about you, you should always rip those into pieces, even if most people going thru the trash are not interested in them, but food. That's common sense. Other than that, I can't really see a problem in people taking other people's UNWANTED items.
smokyeye 2 years ago
It's a bit cheeky....
shelljell26 2 years ago
I get tired of hearing how freegans are making a politiical statement...most people I meet doing this have too. Because they live on disability, they have health problems, they lost their jobs, or don't make enough money to eat! This isn't a political statement, this is survival!!!! It's not glamorous or trendy, it's necessary!
Ms78Butterfly 2 years ago 3
Who cares if its trendy or not....to make public the waste in the system goes past freeganism...it it a comment on waste and in all its forms.
If the system wasnt so wasteful, and a little more caring of its people, they wouldnt have to go through bins to survive.
These videos are a broard comment on the sickness of society...try to see the big picture
paratoxically 2 years ago 4
Is this in Bristol? i've heard of a free shop in Bristol (a friend of mine squats)
RFAKATD 2 years ago
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I don't mean to be a skeptic, but from my experience in modern medicine; there are signs of mental illness here.
mortesensibile 2 years ago
How do you figure?
f0xgl0ve 2 years ago
Great video! Gemma was really cute :D
Carlsarv 2 years ago
wow really good video, i have done it a few times, i got tinned food and a lot of things that where still in the box.
garymcmanus2 2 years ago
I'm a freegan
Its kind of a privilege to be a detrivore as I'm an ethical vegetarian that can eat any kind of food from dumpsters
BeanangelTreon 2 years ago 2
I want to get more into freeganism around Montreal, that's where I am. Are there any groups here?
Vegannibal 2 years ago
i dont even understand why people think this is gross. i mean, is there some sort of threshold that something goes over when it is thrown away to make it somehow not food?
rainbeux 2 years ago
what if everyone was a freegan?? you are basically stealing off the homeless who actually need that food. grow up seriously.
chrisaphelion 2 years ago
how the hell do you figure that? the homeless get so much food at soup kitchens and the salvation army as it is.. I should know I was homeless for almost 2 years and lived at a sally ann hostel, the food was okay, nothing great but enough to live on.. and NO freegens dont steal homeless peoples food, that is just stuipidity to think such. THERE IS SOOO MUCH OVER PRODUCTION OF FOOD IN THIS WORLD BY FACTORY FARMS< and that is the problem, not what your talking about.
ratzingersarat 2 years ago
talking about something they know nothing about.
tssk tsk.
rainbeux 2 years ago
wow if your a freegan youre the biggest freak in the whole world. FREAKS!!!!!!
camh344 2 years ago
and you're one of the biggest consumers in the world. IMO that is more freaky than conscious, CONSCIENTIOUS minimalist consumption. How low do you have to be to insult people who are just trying to be good to the world and minimize waste? Shame on you. Freeganism is a very noble and honorable thing to do (by freganism I mean taking food from the trash, not just eating whatever people give you).
Vegannibal 2 years ago
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my garbage is my garbage i still own it! This may sound absurd but PERSONAL stuff is in there and it is an INVASION OF MY PRIVACY! yes we throw away too much stuff but even supermarkets throw office docs and visa/amex receipts in THERE garbage that is why it is ILLEGAL. It is sad the amount we throw out... but is also sad when we have to lock our garbage. i believe in not waisting food but stay out of our garbage!
chalupa9999 2 years ago
i think freeganism is a great movement, and i'm even excited about trying it out. i think it'll be an adventure.
airparis05 2 years ago 2
agreed, the adventure aspect is what keeps me going after 8 years everyday is an adventure foraging in dumpsters, you never know what you will find.. some days you don't find much cool stuff but wow other days you find unbelievable stuff thats mindblowing and even expensive stuff, so persistance is the key in this game.
ratzingersarat 2 years ago
omg. i just started reading about this and i fell in love with the idea. does anyone know how to start?
SpyderMars 2 years ago
yeh , just stop spending money and start digging through peoples trash.
bmw5234 2 years ago
I fell in love with the idea immediately too. for the past couple of days I've just been devouring all the information that I can about it
thisvlogisforwilly 2 years ago
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cool! where do they live?
SpamAnn 2 years ago
okay... the girl you see (second person) in the movie is cute XD
but, that's totally unrelated, so let's just say i support the idea, but i can't make myself do these things..
apostel13 3 years ago
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this is jokes, get a fuckin job
ir0nLuNgZz420 3 years ago
most of them have jobs buddy, they just choose not to waste food
JakeXVX 2 years ago 2
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I get that alot of perfectly good food is being wasted but soon as it goes in that bin germs and bacteria are all over it. May I just say disgusting
PurpleIsFunky 3 years ago
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Ew.
Femminista2 3 years ago
I've lived on a couple of protest sites and we all survived in this way getting our food from skips or gifts from those sympathetic to our cause.The food was good and never made me ill,I was living in the brecon beaconson the pipeline protest and titnore woods near worthing,enjoying the fresh air and have never been healthier.I'm asthmatic and never suffered with it during those days,as soon as I returned to "normality" the asthma returned!!
shortyspaceman 3 years ago 2
going vegan/freegan conserves 1.3 million gallons of water per year, an acre of trees per year (millions of pieces of paper).
separate compost and garbage. don't put your stuff that can be broken down into plastic bags to go into land fills.
Vegannibal 3 years ago 2
As a pretty much raw vegan (raising livestock is wasteful as well as cruel), do you have any suggestions for how I could have food that was going to go to waste? I have never bought a new piece of furniture, I dive for that...
Take your backpack or big material bag to the grocery if you go to the grocery. Buy in bulk to eliminate packaging. Use those bags repeatedly. Don't buy new garbage bags, find some old plastic bags. Go vegan to conserve resources (and be good to you and others).
Vegannibal 3 years ago
all the plastic bottles drive me nuts too.. before they started big with bulk stores but now you dont see them as much, I wonder if they are trying to phase them out.. YOUR right they should have more builk food stores so you can bag your own food and eliminate all the plastic bottle production.
ratzingersarat 2 years ago
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This is a joke.
stone8675309 3 years ago
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dumb communists
if everyone did what they did we would all go back to hunter/gatherers and all our advancements would mean shit
fjori84 3 years ago
our advancements wont mean shit anyway when the world we have destroyed cant support us anymore
thelikelylad 2 years ago
I must say, I really wish that I knew some freegans around me. I haven't got the nerve or the means, to get started on my own!
LeopardxLiz 3 years ago 2
if you happen to be in Indianapolis, let me know and we'll start one up together, i don't know anyone else either :(
tararep 3 years ago 2
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All that just to have a little extra money for weed. Losers.
vicekitty 3 years ago
ha ha thats funny
fjori84 3 years ago
LQTM
etran83 2 years ago
I don't think food should be free to humans all because society has advanced, and I come from a poor country. I think the ability to access food should not be taken away such as some African Nations who take the food surplus and keep it from the people- Giving food away sounds like rationing to me and historically that has been despotic.
Personally, having come from a poor country eating other people's garbage is not my idea of conserving food- not wasting what's in my fridge is.
magog1138 3 years ago
He didn't say food should be given away or that it should be free. In biblical times the poor were allowed to glean in the fields of landowners, gathering the grain that the reapers dropped as they harvested the field. Anyone willing to glean had access to however much grain s/he could gather. In more recent times the Native Americans didn't keep domestic herds. Wild game could be caught and eaten by anyone with the skill to catch it. Mass hunger and starvation are relatively recent problems.
osogoodgirl 3 years ago
so is mass production FACTORY FARMING... kind of ironic isnt it??? the more they do this monsanto type chemical factory farming the more hunger there is in the world... the food system is broke obviously, even chefs I know personally tell me this. We should just all go back to farm our own food ..... everyone get an acre land and grow and do your own food.. problem solved. I can't exactly put a cow on my apartment balcony to milk now can I??? so much for technological advancements in the world.
ratzingersarat 2 years ago
ratzingersarat, I wonder if there is enough good farming space for everyone on Earth to have an acre right now? If we are all vegans and freegans, sure. Not if we're funneling it all into livestock though.
I totally feel you on the monsanto thing. The stuff we are doing with farming right now is just a ticking time-bomb, to anyone who has an ounce of common (maybe not-so-common) sense.
Vegannibal 2 years ago
I live in Canada, and the majority of the population lives on the american canadian border, there is sooo much land here that is NOT farmed its unbelievable, so its a total myth that the majority of people in the world could not farm 1 acre of land I believe and also the people that could farm could support the people who couldn't if everyone shared their food like it was supposed to be in the first place. arrggghhhhh this factory farming makes my blood boil.. it has to go.
ratzingersarat 2 years ago
i concur. and this new "swine flu" thing,
1) its just another strain of FLU, go rest and have some soup, cheers, your fine.
2)we wouldnt have this issure in the first place if people didnt bunch them up and bunch them up and OF COURSE they are going to all get sick if one is. in egypt, they are killing all of their pigs because of this.
AAAAAARGGGGGGh
rainbeux 2 years ago
but you can grow soybeans, betten than milk :D
rainbeux 2 years ago 3
Soybean production is a tricky one, now the amzone basin is being clearcut of all the forests to grow more and more soya beans, by big corporations like monsanto, and even monsanto has a GMO soybean now, so be careful with soybeans. Also there is proof now medically that soybeans mess with the female hormones, giving bad results. From a taste point of view, being a chef, I would say soybeans are absolutely tasteless, so I have no use for them. The chinese ferment them to get extra flavor,
ratzingersarat 2 years ago
ach ja... everything has a catch. i grow my own because i use them in everything and i get the soymilk from my neighbors because i dig it more than milk, both because of factory farming and taste.
rainbeux 2 years ago
and 80-90% of all they soybeans are grown to feed livestock. That's extremely inefficient.
I boycott Monsanto entirely. It's really easy to do as a vegan. Even if a soybean is non-GMO I still don't like soy, and nothing I eat has any soy in it whatsoever.
I make my own almond milk (easy, cheap, delicious, nutritious) and sometimes rice or hemp milk. There are many options.
There are a lot of different studies that say different things about the hormones though. Lots of meddled info.
Vegannibal 2 years ago
Hemp milk? thats probably not legal here
sgsfdgfsdfsdfsddf 2 years ago
I don't know why it wouldn't be.. it's not a drug. Hemp seeds are a superfood. I think I heard something of them being legalized in the states after a bunch of people made a big case about it being unreasonable that they were illegal, since they are healthy and not a drug, just like poppy seeds for instance. You can order hemp seed powder and hemp seeds online anyways, they are a very high yield and environmentally friendly crop since they need no pesticides, and extremely nutrient rich.
Vegannibal 2 years ago
They made it illegal here because it is the same type of plant of pot.
sgsfdgfsdfsdfsddf 2 years ago
Take into account that a lot of medical proof is debatable, meddled with, and spun in different ways. I've read writings of scientists who both praise and smash soy.
In either case, whether it's OK for you or not, I don't eat it and won't until I know more - and there are other things that are much more nutritious than it in the first place, and do whatever soy can do but better, namely:
Flax, hemp seeds, quinoa, etc.
I live in southern Canada too :) nice to meet you.
Vegannibal 2 years ago
This is true, as is evident now with the raw milk versus dont drink milk at all debate... of course the dont drink people say drink soy milk instead, when soy hasnt even been investigated properly I think. Really aside from the medical research the first meeting anyone has with any food is 1)how does it looks and 2) how does it taste..... when I first tasted raw soy beens off the field, I was disgusted, it was the most tasteless thing I ever put in my mouth, like eating paper.... that stuck.
ratzingersarat 2 years ago
Hm :-( But I'm a "don't drink milk at all (unless it's from your own mother, which is what it's meant for)" person... and I don't ever say to drink soy milk instead. If you want something else that is lovely and milky, I'd go for almond milk, rice milk, or hemp milk. My favorite right now being almond milk.
Vegannibal 2 years ago
ahhh where is southern Canada??? lol ... when I was in alberta there they said ontario was eastern canada, forgetten that martimes is the eastern part of canada, I think we forget how big canada truly is as a country... so much population is localized in Canada in pockets... and divided from each other geographically.
ratzingersarat 2 years ago
Lol Southern Canada. I just meant that I'm close to the border ;-) Yeah Canada is fricken huge, so huge that people in different parts of it don't even know much about the other parts of it (except for some wanderers like me).
Oh I think that soy and soymilk taste nasty btw. Some fake soy "meats" can be ridiculously tasty though but I stay away from them anyways, haha. I'm not talking about tofu (which I don't hate hate persay but it doesn't match up nutritionally to my hemp, flax etc)
Vegannibal 2 years ago
but someone has to buy them for them to be available when not wanted
tubofbologna 3 years ago
The girl has a funny sing song voice. I like it, I think.
Harrifer1987 3 years ago
The girl with the dreadlocks is beautiful.
She lives such a beautiful lifestyle.
I love her spirit.
Freeganism is wonderful.
richiestoner101 3 years ago 10
This is fantastic.
My freind has just suggested to me that we try this, so i did research, and I think It's generally amazing.
I don't see hiw there are any negatives to it, If you do it right and take care of yourself and what you're putting into your body.
Aside from the excess work, theres nothing!
And since when would working a little harder kill anyone?
It makes so much sense!
RxalRose 3 years ago 4
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i have just started to be a freegan but as i am a Nazi am i welcome in the freegan world ?
BNPBritain 3 years ago
Nazism is some old political ideology, that didn't work, like Communism didn't neither. Be just yourself.
ChaoticDisorderFuck 3 years ago
Absolutely not,most of us are anarchists and you would be totally rejected and spurned!!
shortyspaceman 3 years ago
freegan forever! (i started seriously a year ago and have never eaten so well in my life. The best of everything. Free. And that's from just one single supermarket dumpster visited daily)
elps84 3 years ago 2
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We should make freeganism illegael and then provide jobs that try and stop freegans from doing their freeloading.. this way eating trash is cool and encouraged, which, in theory, would promote more freeganism and less waste, while providing jobs for jessyc1 and his/her posse. We could also have a class system like in India... everyone is happy there, right?
NewYorkWanderer 3 years ago
wow never knew that this concept existed, Love it Spread the Word!!
albaE1 3 years ago
Great vid. Like the allotment.
Anyone know the little bit of music at 00:38 after the Wombles tune?
Halobitt 3 years ago
the girl is very cute and awesome video!
looopandlooop 3 years ago 2
these guys are so cute! they face are so clean and shiny!
60n1 3 years ago