{"id":353,"date":"2007-09-27T18:52:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T22:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auroralux.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/27\/newsflash-trashifarians-freegans-stealing-food-from-the-truly-hungry\/"},"modified":"2007-09-27T18:52:41","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T22:52:41","slug":"newsflash-trashifarians-freegans-stealing-food-from-the-truly-hungry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/27\/newsflash-trashifarians-freegans-stealing-food-from-the-truly-hungry\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsflash: trashifarians (freegans) stealing food from the truly hungry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/20920381\/site\/newsweek\/\">Newsweek<\/a> by way of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/27\/extreme-personal-finance-one-month-as-a-freegan\/\">getrichslowly.org<\/a> a well-written, gentle criticism of the Trashifarian movement: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The freegans, most of whom are educated and capable of contributing to the economy, aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sharing the surplus wealth of the West with those who are destitute by circumstance rather than choice. They are competing with them for it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The freegans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Edenic myth is seductive, but there is no way to put the technological genie back in the bottle, or the demographic one either. Six billion people, however much we may deplore their impact on the environment, cannot sustain themselves by foraging for nuts and tubers. The way out isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t backward, but forward, by using our wisdom, and even our much criticized technology, to forge a better and more humane society.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Newsweek by way of getrichslowly.org a well-written, gentle criticism of the Trashifarian movement: The freegans, most of whom are educated and capable of contributing to the economy, aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sharing the surplus wealth of the West with those who are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/27\/newsflash-trashifarians-freegans-stealing-food-from-the-truly-hungry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}