Freegans and Freeganism

"The Free Life":

The best things in life are free -
'Freegans' challenge consumer society
by eating and re-using what the rest of
us throw away.

This is a short documentary film exploring the lifestyle of Freegans, i.e. people who try to live and eat off the waste created by society.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Freegan
• Freegans
• Freeganism
• dumpster
• diving
• consumerism
• consumer
• short
• film
• waste
• recycling
• free
• food
• documentary

[00rpc]

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.

[mac2404]

@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.

[StonedSpangleBanner]

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 ^_^

[Mikuruification]

Fuck all Woody-Allen Butt-loving Pedophile Freegans 

[1pcfred]

@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.

[Yevilyn]

@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.

[1pcfred]

@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.

[Yevilyn]

@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.

[1pcfred]

@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.

[Yevilyn]

@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

[1pcfred]

@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.