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Freeganism
Freeganism is an ideology of limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources, particularly through recovering wasted goods like food.[1] The word "freegan" is a portmanteau of "free" and "vegan".[2] While vegans avoid buying, consuming, using, and wearing animal products as an act of protest against animal exploitation, freegans—at least in theory—avoid buying anything as an act of protest against the food system in general.
Freeganism is often presented as synonymous with "dumpster diving" for discarded food, although freegans are distinguished by their association with an anti-consumerist and anti-capitalist ideology and their engagement in a wider range of alternative living strategies, such as voluntary unemployment, squatting in abandoned buildings, and "guerrilla gardening" in unoccupied city parks.[3]
- ^ Barnard, Alex (2016). Freegans: Diving into the Wealth of Food Waste in America. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-9813-4.
- ^ Glowka, Wayne (2004). "Among the New Words" (PDF). American Speech. 79 (2): 194–200. doi:10.1215/00031283-79-2-194. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-09-07. Retrieved 2016-06-09.
- ^ "Freeganism in Practice". freegan.info. Retrieved 2016-06-09.
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