(August 9, 2010 at 5:11 am)Tiberius Wrote: I'm sure some people will go to those lengths to get food tackattack, but you aren't going to convince me that it is hygienic. I'm afraid bacteria from a dumpster, even for a few minutes, is enough to give you a bad stomach. It will be all over the packaging, all over your hands, and will eventually get to the food.
It doesn't matter if you wash your hands thoroughly each time either; eventually bacteria will make it to the food, and you'll eat it.
"Freeganism" is a reckless activity. These people would be much better off talking with the supermarkets in the first place. Believe it or not, but supermarkets don't actually want to throw away food; it decreases their profit through the loss in sales, and the cost of disposal.
Instead of rummaging through skips, freegans could just wait until the end of the working day, when shops often throw out out-of-date goods that are in perfectly good shape. That way, they could get the goods as soon as they went into the skip, or they could make an unofficial arrangement to be given out of date stuff.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
