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Posted Oct 02 2007, 10:27 PM by Karen Datko

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Filed under: family, health, food, free, cars

People who call themselves freegans take frugality to the extreme -- going through garbage for food, giving up cars -- in the name of protesting consumerism and waste in modern society. Writer Raina Kelley detailed a month spent as a freegan. Some people find fault with their methods and thinking.

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why not go to grocery and as for food that they throw anyway to give to poor?

a (Posted 08.11.08 10:05 PM ) Report Abuse

a lot of freegans do indeed do that.

have you ever heard of Food Not Bombs?

alex (Posted 08.12.08 12:24 PM ) Report Abuse

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