http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/02/27/london-freegans-unfazed-by-rising-food-prices/ hopping along the corridors of power Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:03:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/02/27/london-freegans-unfazed-by-rising-food-prices/#comment-38645 Janine Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:34:50 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/02/27/london-freegans-unfazed-by-rising-food-prices/#comment-38645 We had a couple of young American freegans staying with us last week - apparently there is quite a network of them in some US cities. The point they wish to make (apart from it costing them less to live) is that fully 50% of food in the US is thrown away - not given away or composted, and that this, in a world where people are still hungry, including in the US, is obscene. We had a couple of young American freegans staying with us last week - apparently there is quite a network of them in some US cities. The point they wish to make (apart from it costing them less to live) is that fully 50% of food in the US is thrown away - not given away or composted, and that this, in a world where people are still hungry, including in the US, is obscene.

]]>