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This is a Google-translation of my danish blog http://mund-fuld.blogspot.com/

mandag den 14. november 2011

Is it stigmatizing to be a Freegan?

After seeing DR2s TVshow about food waste, it was time to take matters into own hands and jump off as "Freegan".

For an old city-boy, it was a trip back to a youth with daily visits to the garbage containers for anything that could be used. I had, in short, no difficulty in putting on my headlight, and running the city thin after food from containers. And there was lots to do, see the images here:





I'd get a kick out of doing this a couple times a week, no doubt. The next day there was great joy in the little family. There was fruit for the entire kindergarten, there where chocolates and snacks for the whole weekend, there was food for most of a week. A cool thing to do on so many levels, environmental, household economy wise, minimised waste fee to the supermarket, the list is long.

And then the serpent in paradise came creeping. What is the neighbor thinking? With two small children and a dad / blogger who does not care, there will probably not be long before it´s out there. Particularly not when the same father / blogger are passed up by an official of his local usupermarket, whilest having his head well down in the same supermarkets container. As I write, they are probably laughing high in the backroom.

But what about the fact that there is now a local in the area, who gets food out of container? It would be no problem for a student, but for a 38 yearold family man? What things will be said about his children if / when their environment gets wind of it? In the big city, you can maybe hide a little better, it may even be that people in cities are more indifferent to what the people next door are doing at night. Our family is, however, live in extremely rural location, out there where you have time to marvel atothers' behavior. It will be exciting to see what happens, if anything.

It is in any case not the last time FOOT FULL have played superhero at night, relieffood, the environment and its own madbudget.

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