A freegan is a person who only eats food obtained for free. The freegan lifestyle involves salvaging discared food that is still
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and nutritious. Freegans obtain the food they eat through donations,
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, or searching in bins (or
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) for food that has been trown
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by shops. Some freegans will buy food that they consider socially conscious, but only eat other foods if they are free and eating them will prevent unnecessary waste.
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is an anti-consumerist lifestyle, based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources. Freegans embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society they consider to be based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, conformity, and
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.
The freegan movement has its roots in the anti-globalization and environmentalist movements that
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in the 1990´s. Most Freegans salvage the food not because they are poor or homeless, but as a political statement. The word freegan is a
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of two other English words:
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. Words made by combining two existing words to make a new one are known as
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words.