(August 8, 2010 at 1:37 pm)The Omnissiunt One Wrote: As Tack says, many organisations throw out perfectly good food, because of obsessiveness about health and safety. So, eating from a dumpster wouldn't necessarily consist of week-old pizzas, if you knew where to look. Freeganism sounds like a very ethical lifestyle, though a pretty extreme and probably unnecessary one.Yes, but the food will have been in a dumpster, which may have contained other bad food items. I don't believe dumpsters are regularly cleaned, so the amount of bacteria growing in them will be extensive.
Dumpsters are also home to scavengers; rats and the like.
Plus, there is no way of knowing when the food was thrown out. What about food that needs to be refrigerated, or frozen? You are overlooking some of the main health risks.
