America throws away enough food to feed 1/2 of Africa (83)
CAn we have a "Dumpster Diving" party???
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ahhh.....true capitalism is in the working
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serene56: I was hoping what I saw on The Bill was fictional
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Last year I was working in Alice Springs in the Aussie desert for a short while. One evening, I was walking around looking at places, stopping for a coffee, a bite to eat...then I found I had eaten too much. I didn't want to throw the remaining untouched item of food away, so, keeping it carefully wrapped, I placed it on top of a dumpster, so that whoever found it did not have to go through the indgnity of reaching into the dumpster. 
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reelman90: Good comment and I'm right there with you. I am just afraid that too many people today are already sheep and it seems to be getting worse by the day.
....Bingo...very correct Good Sir and it is getting worse when people just roll over,and get shafted by so called new laws to,to so called 'protect there Rights'.....
J.D
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ooby_dooby: Individuals and family's recycle the majority of stuff in this country. Corporations, supermarkets, retail food stores and restaurants (where the majority of food is handled) do not. I have seen whole dumpsters (the big ones that are about 20 feet long) filled with perfectly good office furniture and computers and monitors hauled off to a landfill. Some of the things I've seen turns my stomache. Like when I had to pick up freight from a "Sams Club" a subsidiary of WalMart, I saw a whole pallet of trail mix standing next to the trash compactor. I asked what was going on with that and was told "it's going into the trash bin" I said "How Come" "One of the bags was attacked by a mouse" I was told. "Can I take a few bags"? I asked. "Oh no, we can't even take any it must go in the trash compactor." he saud. This policy is throughout the whole Walmart system and I'm sure it is a policy that infects other big box outlets. It's a goddamn sin!!
For months I have been eating like a king thanks to my son who daily visits several dumpsters behind high end food stores. Day before yesterday I made myself a sirloin steak that was priced at $7.99/lb. My god it was delicious! Yesterday he brought home a huge box of apples, about 6 boxes of glased oatmeal cookies, 3 pumpkin pies, 6 boxes of sweet peppers (not sure what to do with those). The pumpkin pies were horrible tasting as most commercial pumpkin pies are (can't compare to my home made) but my chickens go nuts over them and it saves me money on chicken feed. I don't even go food shopping anymore except to buy milk and some Sunny Delight. My house is so full of food I'm running out of places to put it all. Crackers, "Cup-of-soup" I have 50 of them, chocolates, Dove, Rochette, about 20 lbs, steaks, pkgs of cooked chicken, about 10 lbs of Kit Kats, whole frozen chickens, boxes of cereal, It's insane.
At least San Francisco is doing something about all this food winding up in landfills.
Yes, it is a waste, but moreso because of potential lawsuits...and you KNOW someone would sue if sickened in a minor way-thanks to the ambulance chasers out there.For months I have been eating like a king thanks to my son who daily visits several dumpsters behind high end food stores. Day before yesterday I made myself a sirloin steak that was priced at $7.99/lb. My god it was delicious! Yesterday he brought home a huge box of apples, about 6 boxes of glased oatmeal cookies, 3 pumpkin pies, 6 boxes of sweet peppers (not sure what to do with those). The pumpkin pies were horrible tasting as most commercial pumpkin pies are (can't compare to my home made) but my chickens go nuts over them and it saves me money on chicken feed. I don't even go food shopping anymore except to buy milk and some Sunny Delight. My house is so full of food I'm running out of places to put it all. Crackers, "Cup-of-soup" I have 50 of them, chocolates, Dove, Rochette, about 20 lbs, steaks, pkgs of cooked chicken, about 10 lbs of Kit Kats, whole frozen chickens, boxes of cereal, It's insane.
At least San Francisco is doing something about all this food winding up in landfills.
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StephanieH: It seems like you need a lesson about "Methods of Colonization" Mr...
Starting from there, you need a lesson about the differences of regimes adopted and political conditions left to match the conditions that many find themselves now.
After that perhaps you will come to see that your post is quite childish in content. You have absolutely no idea of what are you speaking about.
Sorry.
Blah, blah, blah-the colonization meme...When will people stop blaming OTHERS for their mistakes and misfortune?Starting from there, you need a lesson about the differences of regimes adopted and political conditions left to match the conditions that many find themselves now.
After that perhaps you will come to see that your post is quite childish in content. You have absolutely no idea of what are you speaking about.
Sorry.
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serene56: I have no clue and also would like to be enlightened on what appears to be an American colloquialism: what exactly is a "bum" when referring to human beings
A bum is not your rear-end, it's someone who refuses to work or take responsibility for themselves. A chiquita can be another word for a banana or a young woman.------ This thread is Archived ------
BebeII: A bum is not your rear-end, it's someone who refuses to work or take responsibility for themselves. A chiquita can be another word for a banana or a young woman.
I believe mr nordic meant a chiquita to be an ethnic raced person. Correct me if i'm wrong please mr nordic.
Btw, all Freegans i know, understand the implications lest they become ill from the food.
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If you people want to pay fines (where it's illegal) just so food won't go to waste, then have at it. My grandpa used to say, "a fool and his money are soon parted."
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Itsmebek: I believe mr nordic meant a chiquita to be an ethnic raced person. Correct me if i'm wrong please mr nordic.
Btw, all Freegans i know, understand the implications lest they become ill from the food.
Btw, all Freegans i know, understand the implications lest they become ill from the food.
"Ethnic raced"? Would you care to clarify, please? TY
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ooby_dooby: Individuals and family's recycle the majority of stuff in this country. Corporations, supermarkets, retail food stores and restaurants (where the majority of food is handled) do not. I have seen whole dumpsters (the big ones that are about 20 feet long) filled with perfectly good office furniture and computers and monitors hauled off to a landfill. Some of the things I've seen turns my stomache. Like when I had to pick up freight from a "Sams Club" a subsidiary of WalMart, I saw a whole pallet of trail mix standing next to the trash compactor. I asked what was going on with that and was told "it's going into the trash bin" I said "How Come" "One of the bags was attacked by a mouse" I was told. "Can I take a few bags"? I asked. "Oh no, we can't even take any it must go in the trash compactor." he saud. This policy is throughout the whole Walmart system and I'm sure it is a policy that infects other big box outlets. It's a goddamn sin!!
For months I have been eating like a king thanks to my son who daily visits several dumpsters behind high end food stores. Day before yesterday I made myself a sirloin steak that was priced at $7.99/lb. My god it was delicious! Yesterday he brought home a huge box of apples, about 6 boxes of glased oatmeal cookies, 3 pumpkin pies, 6 boxes of sweet peppers (not sure what to do with those). The pumpkin pies were horrible tasting as most commercial pumpkin pies are (can't compare to my home made) but my chickens go nuts over them and it saves me money on chicken feed. I don't even go food shopping anymore except to buy milk and some Sunny Delight. My house is so full of food I'm running out of places to put it all. Crackers, "Cup-of-soup" I have 50 of them, chocolates, Dove, Rochette, about 20 lbs, steaks, pkgs of cooked chicken, about 10 lbs of Kit Kats, whole frozen chickens, boxes of cereal, It's insane.
At least San Francisco is doing something about all this food winding up in landfills.
For months I have been eating like a king thanks to my son who daily visits several dumpsters behind high end food stores. Day before yesterday I made myself a sirloin steak that was priced at $7.99/lb. My god it was delicious! Yesterday he brought home a huge box of apples, about 6 boxes of glased oatmeal cookies, 3 pumpkin pies, 6 boxes of sweet peppers (not sure what to do with those). The pumpkin pies were horrible tasting as most commercial pumpkin pies are (can't compare to my home made) but my chickens go nuts over them and it saves me money on chicken feed. I don't even go food shopping anymore except to buy milk and some Sunny Delight. My house is so full of food I'm running out of places to put it all. Crackers, "Cup-of-soup" I have 50 of them, chocolates, Dove, Rochette, about 20 lbs, steaks, pkgs of cooked chicken, about 10 lbs of Kit Kats, whole frozen chickens, boxes of cereal, It's insane.
At least San Francisco is doing something about all this food winding up in landfills.
Wow, why would they dump it all if there are probably people who are in need right there in a city, not somewhere in Africa?
I once saw this huge line outside one of the buildings. I asked someone on this line and was told that they were there to get food packages. Out of curiosity I looked what people were getting - couple of tin cans of peanut butter, a bag of flour, sugar, canned meat, etc. Very basic stuff and the packages didn't look like in a supermarket.
It was somekind of brandless stuff, like for army or something.
What I am trying to say, people who are not in need, whould never spend their day waiting patiently on this line. Most of them were elderly people with their shopping carts.
So why dump food instead of giving it away to people who are hungry? I don't really understand it.
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NordicSkier: I am just ROARING with laughter at all of this.
It's amusing that no one has expressed any gratitude for the surplus that is created by the productive capacity of those "nasty corporations." After all, if there were no surplus, no one could "raid the dumpsters" and poach the goods for their own use, could they? As far as the mouse mooching off of the trail mix, what is the difference between the mouse and the bum on the street? The bum at least has the decency to ask first...but be careful what you provide, as I found out once.
One day during the holiday season some years back I was walking down the Mag Mile and there was an Obama supporter there begging for money. I reached into my trench coat and pulled out a banana that I hadn't eaten that morning on my commute and gave it to him. There was another rappercrapper there alongside him that just burst out laughing at his friend's non-cash reward. No gratitude to me for providing the food, nah, I work for a living and probably didn't deserve to keep Chiquita anyway. (Funny how most of the "chiquitas" on this site aren't keepers either...)
Be thankful that there is a surplus to give away. Meanwhile, the socialist economies of Africa can't even feed themselves (neither could the USSR, for that matter) and in those egalitarian paradises, how many dumpsters are there to raid? (One benefit of an empty dumpster is that Obama's relatives in Kenya could sleep in it).
May they rest in peas.
It's amusing that no one has expressed any gratitude for the surplus that is created by the productive capacity of those "nasty corporations." After all, if there were no surplus, no one could "raid the dumpsters" and poach the goods for their own use, could they? As far as the mouse mooching off of the trail mix, what is the difference between the mouse and the bum on the street? The bum at least has the decency to ask first...but be careful what you provide, as I found out once.
One day during the holiday season some years back I was walking down the Mag Mile and there was an Obama supporter there begging for money. I reached into my trench coat and pulled out a banana that I hadn't eaten that morning on my commute and gave it to him. There was another rappercrapper there alongside him that just burst out laughing at his friend's non-cash reward. No gratitude to me for providing the food, nah, I work for a living and probably didn't deserve to keep Chiquita anyway. (Funny how most of the "chiquitas" on this site aren't keepers either...)
Be thankful that there is a surplus to give away. Meanwhile, the socialist economies of Africa can't even feed themselves (neither could the USSR, for that matter) and in those egalitarian paradises, how many dumpsters are there to raid? (One benefit of an empty dumpster is that Obama's relatives in Kenya could sleep in it).
May they rest in peas.
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Laura25: Wow, why would they dump it all if there are probably people who are in need right there in a city, not somewhere in Africa?
I once saw this huge line outside one of the buildings. I asked someone on this line and was told that they were there to get food packages. Out of curiosity I looked what people were getting - couple of tin cans of peanut butter, a bag of flour, sugar, canned meat, etc. Very basic stuff and the packages didn't look like in a supermarket.
It was somekind of brandless stuff, like for army or something.
What I am trying to say, people who are not in need, whould never spend their day waiting patiently on this line. Most of them were elderly people with their shopping carts.
I once saw this huge line outside one of the buildings. I asked someone on this line and was told that they were there to get food packages. Out of curiosity I looked what people were getting - couple of tin cans of peanut butter, a bag of flour, sugar, canned meat, etc. Very basic stuff and the packages didn't look like in a supermarket.
It was somekind of brandless stuff, like for army or something.
What I am trying to say, people who are not in need, whould never spend their day waiting patiently on this line. Most of them were elderly people with their shopping carts.
Supermarkets fear that freeganism will become a phenomenom, and that EVERYONE will start raiding their dumpsters, and they fear being sued, even tho a huge amount of food is quite fine for human consumption.
Dairy can be dodgy, but who hasnt ever eaten bread etc that was out of date?
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hopefloats: And dumpster digging is illegal here. Two wrongs don't make a right.
If I was starving I would steal the whole dumpster and invite my friends.
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pastortim: If I was starving I would steal the whole dumpster and invite my friends.
Oh yes, the ones behind Pizza Hut are the BEST!!! PIZZZZAAAA!
Wooooohooo!! Yummy.
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Nettermann: ??
Crap,I forgot the European Union!
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trish123: Freecycle is an excellent alternative - I cant help with the corporate stuff though, they probably make a mint somewhere along the line for how much they waste
just thought Id refresh the freecycle thing - its worth having a look at
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