Friday, January 27, 2006

Insurgent "Freegans" Hit Rubish Bins!

From a Breitbart.com article, Garbage gourmets on the streets of New York :

Garbage gourmets on the streets of New York [/] Jan 27 10:51 AM US/Eastern

I've got yogurts!" Stephen Woloshin shouts in triumph, causing other members of his group to lift their rummaging arms and heads from the rubbish bins outside a Manhattan supermarket.

Teachers, social workers and students, Woloshin and his fellow scavengers are far removed from the swollen ranks of New York's homeless, belonging instead to a new faction on the fringes of the environmental movement.

As "freegans," they regard over-consumption as a pernicious global trend and seek to demonstrate how people can feed themselves for "free" on the mountains of produce discarded by others. [My ellipses and emphasis]