freegan
a person who opposes the purchase of commercial goods
TRANSLATION
freegan = Freeganer, Boykotteure der Überfulss- und Wegwerfgesellschaft --- GOOGLE INDEX freegan: approximately 260,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
The urban landscape of cities is a modern hunting ground for Dave Orme and his FREEGAN friends.
(BBC News)
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One FREEGAN we talked to had not exchanged money for food in five years. Like many freegans, he simply couldn't stand to see what people waste, knowing there are so many people starving on the streets.
(www.examiner.com)
(BBC News)
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One FREEGAN we talked to had not exchanged money for food in five years. Like many freegans, he simply couldn't stand to see what people waste, knowing there are so many people starving on the streets.
(www.examiner.com)
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freegan
noun
- a person who attempts to live by avoiding or limiting the purchase of conventional consumer goods
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WORD ORIGIN
Freegan is a combination of "free" and "vegan." A vegan is someone whose diet and lifestyle seeks to exclude the use of animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose.
The website www.freegan.info defines freegans as people who employ alternative strategies for living based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources.
The lifestyle involves salvaging discarded, unspoiled food from supermarket dumpsters, known as dumpster diving. The food has passed the "best by" date, but is still edible. Freegans salvage the food as a political statement, rather than out of need.
The freegan movement is popular in America, particularly New York, where people regularly meet up and hunt through trash bins together on "trash tours" looking for food that has been thrown away. The man who is credited with popularising the US movement is 28-year-old Adam Weissman, an eco-activist, sometime security guard and founder of the www.freegan.info website.
Freeganism is a reaction to waste," he says, "but also to the injustices like sweatshops and the destruction of the rainforests that go into producing goods in the first place. I realised that, as a purchasing consumer, I was supporting that exploitation. But by consuming waste, I'm not supporting these practices."
(sources: The Independent, www.freegan.info, Wikipedia)
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"The freegan movement attracts a wierd collection of political activists, but at least they are drawing attention to the subject of waste."
noun
- a person who attempts to live by avoiding or limiting the purchase of conventional consumer goods
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WORD ORIGIN
Freegan is a combination of "free" and "vegan." A vegan is someone whose diet and lifestyle seeks to exclude the use of animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose.
The website www.freegan.info defines freegans as people who employ alternative strategies for living based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources.
The lifestyle involves salvaging discarded, unspoiled food from supermarket dumpsters, known as dumpster diving. The food has passed the "best by" date, but is still edible. Freegans salvage the food as a political statement, rather than out of need.
The freegan movement is popular in America, particularly New York, where people regularly meet up and hunt through trash bins together on "trash tours" looking for food that has been thrown away. The man who is credited with popularising the US movement is 28-year-old Adam Weissman, an eco-activist, sometime security guard and founder of the www.freegan.info website.
Freeganism is a reaction to waste," he says, "but also to the injustices like sweatshops and the destruction of the rainforests that go into producing goods in the first place. I realised that, as a purchasing consumer, I was supporting that exploitation. But by consuming waste, I'm not supporting these practices."
(sources: The Independent, www.freegan.info, Wikipedia)
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"The freegan movement attracts a wierd collection of political activists, but at least they are drawing attention to the subject of waste."
