Dumpster Diving

Resisting the Food Culture - Why some people choose to dumpster dive

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People & Blogs

Tags:

• political
• resistance
• food
• culture
• dumpster
• diving
• poor
• homeless

[TravistyCH]

Lame. If the news wants a damn dumpster diving story then I will be happy to give them there story. The guy who eats roast beef straight out of the dumpster,good for you. Tell me how that works out for ya. I find no shock value in this video at all. If yoy want a shock then watch "Travisty's Trashure Hunt".

End of story.

[cindylm1]

Sorry that you find this lame, but if you were looking for shock value then you WERE looking in the wrong place.

This was not a NEWS story, it was a report on WHY people dumpster dive.

[robesofearth]

Steve, good work- but you got issues. You don't owe people something because they give you free food! Your appreciation is enough. Take a hint from Noreen, she's ace.

I thought it was a bit odd that the narrator said dumpster diving was going against traditional meanings of getting food- it's hunting and gathering!! Just about as traditional as it gets!

Good vid overall though. Keep up the good work!

[cindylm1]

Hey thanks for the comment! You are right when you say that 'traditional' is hungting and gathering.. our traditional was grocery shopping-the more modern way of getting food--i guess we could have used the word 'modern' instead!

[siszam]

That's sick that they would rather waste food than let people have it.

[gregspencewolf]

I'm a righteous dumpster diver dude. I get all of my apparel, From the bottom of a barrel. All my favorite music, Someone else refused it, My letterhead has many styles, Because it comes from the circular file. If it's in a bottle or a can, Then I figure that I can, Eat it all up, Without throwing up! I go to Campus every spring, To look for all of the good things, That people throw away, Because they go away.

[StuntedWings]

Yay "Godspeed you black emperor" song. :)

[AnarchoSyndicalistt]

Its forced on people to do this its why I hate Capatilism so fucking much.

[tophergrallison]

Everyone should dumpster dive.

[tophergrallison]

Nah man the food's good! A day before it's good, but when the clock strikes midnight, or when it goes out the back door and into a box, it's suddenly bad? Personally, I don't see the logic.

[Begbucks]

I say fuck the planet & fuck the anti-capatilists sell some shit baby!!

[Begbucks]

Begging is cool, don't give it a bad rap (I'm a proud beggar & dumppicking, dumpster diving requires begging often times to gain access to locked dumpsters, or dumps where one lacks a dump sticker (milti-town scrounging), still there's nothing more dignified than living of second goods, as I do or the occasional handout, social program (wishfull thinking because america is cheap but wastfull) then undignified employment a rat race, slaving to the man to buy shit I find & consume/use/even sell

[TravistyCH]

Ok,in a way I do agree with the freegains on the most part of living off the waste of America but its waste to who??? I found an ass load of my My Color M&M's just sitting there in the dumpster. They were free of imperfection,expiration and were not damaged or opened. I sold them legaly at a flea market and made like $520.00 on a good day. The rest I gave to a church or to a pantrie. You can observe and document my finds anyday if you'de like? The M&M's passed all health codes before sale.