Everyday's A Free Food-A-Thon

Zach Marks — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:02:36 EDT

My life just hasn’t been the same since the Campus Progress Free-Food-A-Thon this summer. Something’s been missing. Not the sirloin steak, per se, but rather the fact that the sirloin steak was free. There’s an indescribable feeling I get eating a meal I didn’t pay a dime for. Apparently I’m not the only one. An article about freegans, “a growing subculture of people who have reduced their spending habits and live off consumer waste” is creeping its way to the top of the Los Angeles Times most-emailed list. You don’t have to read far to get graphic. Here’s the lede:

For lunch in her modest apartment, Madeline Nelson tossed a salad made with shaved carrots and lettuce she dug out of a Whole Foods dumpster. She flavored the dressing with miso powder she found in a trash bag on a curb in Chinatown. She baked bread made with yeast plucked from the garbage of a Middle Eastern grocery store.

The passage about freegans carefully sifting through garbage outside D'Agostino's supermarket in Midtown Manhattan really transported me to another place. My happy place.

"Whoa, someone found the soy milk!" said Cindy Rosin, 31, a freelance graphics designer. "Good find."

Amen, Cindy. Amen.

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Everyday's A Free Food-A-Thon