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Anti-consumer Activists of New York Find Food Where Others See Trash
December 14, 2007 at 2:57 PM
Lifestyle News
For the city's "Freegans", finding bell peppers, apples and bagels in the bags of trash that litter the city's sidewalks is a way of life.
It is a winter evening in Manhattan's Midtown business district and a group of the anti-consumer activists meet up outside a luxury grocery store, timing their run for after the store closes but before the garbage trucks arrive.
They work fast, rummaging through bags and finding a wide array of food: strawberries, sausages, bananas, yogurts, fruit juice and carrots -- on this run, bags and bags of carrots.
After a few moments of frantic foraging, they tie the bags back up and lay out an impressive display of goods that they offer to passers-by.
"One strawberry with a little bit of mold, one out of date yogurt, and they throw everything in the garbage," says one of the urban foragers, Christian Gutierrez, 34, who lives in a squat in Manhattan's trendy SoHo neighborhood.
He wears a Burberry raincoat he's proud to say he found in the trash, as well as shoes that didn't even need reheeling.
Freeganism, which carries the slogan "life beyond capitalism," is a lifestyle that relies on sharing, recycling and salvaging.
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