Freegans!

Freeganism isn't just the practice of reclaiming and eating food that has been discarded, though dumpster diving is included and encouraged. Freegans and freeganism are often seen as part of a wider "anti-consumerist" ideology, and freegans often employ a range of alternative practical living strategies based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources. The word freegan is a blending of the words free and vegan. Vegans choose to avoid products from animal sources or products tested on animals in an effort to avoid harming animals. Freegans take this a few extreme steps further. As a part of embracing freeganism, freegans work to totally boycott our economic system where the profit motive has eclipsed ethical considerations and where massively complex systems of productions ensure that all the products we buy will have detrimental impacts most of which we may never even consider. Thus, instead of avoiding the purchase of products from one bad company only to support another, freegans avoid buying anything to the greatest degree they are able. Freegans are anti-sweatshop labor, rainforest destruction, global warming, displacement of indigenous communities, air and water pollution, eradication of wildlife on farmland as “pests”, the violent overthrow of popularly elected governments to maintain puppet dictators compliant to big business interests, open-pit strip mining, oil drilling in environmentally sensitive areas, union busting, child slavery, and payoffs to repressive regimes. Freegans are sometimes hitchhikers and squatters but not all of them are. There are varying degrees of participation in the freegan lifestyle, as one would commonly expect. Until I did a little research into this, I thought most dumpster diving homeless and street type people were considered to be a bunch of freegan bums but now I guess they’re just freegan.