Freegans - surely this isn't right??

freeganism is quite clever really, and I admire those who do it consistantly.

i know a freegan and he doesn't do it to the degree you stated, he'll just ask for out of date food from shops, he won't dive into a bin at night to get it!

he also pays all his taxes and national insurance

also he lives in a rather nice flat, not a caravan!

I don't really see what's wrong with taking the unused food from supermarkets. They really should do something better with it than throw it away anyway.

but why should we all pay for food and they just steal it?? supermarkets dont have much choice these days the laws on health and safety are so harsh etc.

I know obviously they are an extreme version picked for tv but this family are making it out like they are better than everyone else. They make out they are contributing to society and we dont. But i dont c where they are contributing??

It would amuse me quite a bit if someone stole from the bins at our supermarket (not that we have any, we compact everything, but say we did). Some of the stuff we've thrown away included milkshakes that looked perfectly harmless and were in date, but exploded when you picked them up, unless you were very careful.

Having worked in a supermarket, I don't think I'd ever eat food from the bins in supermarkets. The stuff they throw away is usually either out of date or hasn't been kept cold enough to be 100% safe.

Are you watching the program - from Co-OP there were chocolates etc. thrown away due to broken packaging, don't tell me that health & Safety had anything to do with that.

Hey just watchin an old episode of wife swap and one of the families are freegans. Now i dont fully understand what they are but from what Im seeing it isn't right.

The freegans in this program basically live in a mobile home, and scrounge for food from supermarket bins each night, the woman just said that jesus says you should sell all u have and give it to the poor. they dont pay any tax any national insurance etc etc but would use the nhs if they got ill. the poor son of this couple is embarrassed to tell anyone at school where he lives etc.

surely this isnt right?

just wondering if anyone knew anyone who believes in this?

or just what peoples opinions etc

Interesting, having worked some-where which isn't a supermarket but sells food I would happily. When I worked there some days we would have to throw out 30+ sandwiches at a time, nothing wrong with them except they would be out of date the next day.

Oh, things like sandwiches I probably would, as long as it was literally the date was for the day before. I presumed we were talking about meals and such, which os what makes the vast majority of our rubbish. I would say about 80% of our rubbish was food that was either a) damaged so wasn't sealed anymore (not things like chocolate, more yoghurts etc) or b) stuff which was out of date and needed refrigerating.