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Dumpster Diving
Jimmy the Squid:
I should mention i'm ok with the dumpster diving at the back of electronic stores/repair shops. They make sense.
öde:
I'd eat food that had been thrown out if it was in it's sealed container. It's strange, most of the time I'm not too worried about germs but I find bins revolting.
Barmymoo:
I have a friend who dumpster-dives at DVD stores.
Why the hell would a DVD store throw away a perfectly usable DVD or computer game? It doesn't make sense to me.
Luke C:
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--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 15 Mar 2008, 14:46 ---So although I think that supermarkets throwing away unwanted food is a waste (why can't they give it to a soup kitchen, if it's still edible and not likely to make anyone ill?), I don't think that dumpster diving is morally right unless you have no other way to survive. And in an ideal world (well not totally ideal, because that would mean no poverty at all, but a better world anyway) there would be places where people with no money could go and get the food that the supermarkets couldn't sell.
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Interestingly, supermarkets are NOT ALLOWED to give away food that has been damaged or is otherwise fine but doesnt have the ingredients/nutritional information on it. I work in a grocery store and the staff always would take hom food with no lables etc. But we have recently been told that we are not allowed to. It is against some kind of crazy law and we HAVE TO throw it away. HAVE TO. I flinch everytime I see good food being thrown away and we all believe it is a horrible waste. especially since we were the ones getting free food out of the bargains. there a a bajillion security cameras in our store linked directly to our head office which makes it difficult (but not impossible) to get around.
But that is why they dont just give the food away. Technically, they are just not allowed.
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Im not sure where you are at but IIRC the law in the UK is a bit sketchy with this type of thing.
In my mind though if supermarkets or sandwich stores or whatever decide not to sell food that dosnt meet their high standards then thats ok, they have a reputation to keep up. What they should do/be allowed to do is either give it to the staff, lets face it your average supermarket employee isn't going to be on a huge wage, or if not give it to the homeless. Is a homeless dude gonna complain because the bread he is given for free is a little bit stale?
A bit more to the point, freeganism is the type of theory which kind of pisses me off, if everybody did it then nobody could!
a pack of wolves:
But if everybody suddenly did it then capitalism would be royally fucked, which in my experience of people who call themselves freegan would be the cause of many high fives.
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