Freeloading with the Freegans

From Nadia Arumugam — Blog by Nadia Arumugam

March 10, 2009

It’s difficult to get shocked by anything in New York City anymore. But digging around in someone’s garbage for my dinner was one thing that until recently induced an involuntary gagging reflex in me. Not that I plan to start riffling through rodent infested trash cans for that delectable last bite of a stranger’s discarded burger. But joining a group of Freegans (people who quite simply exist on other people’s cast offs) on a trash tour recently opened my eyes to the excess of seemingly decent food that eateries, supermarkets and other gourmet retailers discard at the end of the day. And at least for a nano-second, it had me thinking, that perhaps I was being too precious in my insistence that the contents of my fridge come to me from Whole Foods shelves rather than via its dumpsters….

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