freeganism
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22 sectionsContents
- History
- Motivations and ideology
- Anarchism and anti-capitalism
- Veganism and food waste
- Back-to-nature
- Practices
- Urban foraging
- Wild foraging and urban gardens
- Sharing
- Squatting
- Working less
- Responses and criticism
- Sanitation and stigma
- Parasitism
- Racial and class composition
- Legality and commercial responses
- Impacts
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|A box of vegetables and fruits recovered from the dumpsters of a hypermarket thumb|Urban foraged food in Stockholm, Sweden
Freeganism is an ideology of limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources, particularly through recovering wasted goods like food. The word "freegan" is a portmanteau of "free" and "vegan". While vegans avoid buying, consuming, using, and wearing animal products, freegans—at least in theory—avoid buying anything as an act of protest against the food system in general.