Talk:Freeganism
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[edit] External links for sites with no inline reference
Following the guidance of WP:EL I have moved the more obvious sites with no inline reference here and removed the template:too many links, if you want some of these back into the page please make them relevant or reference them in the main text:
- Live4Free, A holistic approach to eating, living, traveling, etc.,
- College and Beyond - Dumpster Diving for Fun and Profit Guide to supporting your freegan or low-impact lifestyle
- Scavenge UK
- Freegan Kitchen, a cooking video blog
- How to Drop Out - 2004 article by Ran Prieur
- Free-lunch foragers
- Skip Dipping in Australia
- "Freegans forage for food in bins," Reuters article
- The Global Free Economy Project
- Freeganism: Ethical Eating?
- Interview with Adam Weissman about freeganism - small World Podcast 2006
- Freecyclegreat site for giving/getting free stuff
- "Freegan" Dumpster Diving Reveals America's Colossal Waste of Food – Nicole Bergot, Newsday, September 29, 2004, URL accessed February 24, 2006
- Rubbish meals a gourmet treat for freegan diners – Richard Luscombe, The Scotsman, November 25, 2005, URL accessed February 24, 2006
- FreeShit Project - Maps Mash-up of dumpsters and free community resources
—Ashley VH (talk) 19:05, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Supermarket tree tryouts-eating
At supermarkets, free tryouts of some snacks and foods are also available. This too can be consumed freely (for shoppers; yet yo do not actually "need" to buy anything offcourse). Perhaps it can be listed in the article; or in the list of subsitstence techniques in Wikipedia.
KVDP (talk) 14:26, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
- This wouldn't be considered freeganism at all. The products you are consuming would not otherwise be wasted. You are just not paying for them; you're exploiting someone else who is. Richard001 (talk) 02:04, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] What is freeganism?
When I was on a camp last week I brought my own food (everyone else paid about $80), but ended up eating mostly what would have been thrown away (including several sausages). I would consider this 'freeganism', but the lead of this article seems to restrict it to the narrow sense of 'eating out of supermarket dumpsters as a political statement'. I'm primarily concerned with avoiding waste (hence my eating of meat despite being largely vegan), not making any massive political statement. I also generally refrain from eating out of dumpsters, so as to avoid consuming bleach or rat feces etc. Would eating things that would otherwise go to waste not be considered a better definition of freeganism then? If not, what would it be called? Richard001 (talk) 02:01, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Older than the 1990s
We were doing this in the 1970s, but the article states it started in the 1990s. Perhaps because we didn't call it 'freeganism' the confusion arises. Alpheus (talk) 08:04, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
