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The Freegan Movement: Living a Minimalist, Anti-Consumerism Lifestyle
TLDR Freegans are individuals who choose to live a minimalist lifestyle, scavenging and bartering for necessities instead of buying them, in order to protest the wastefulness of the consumer economy. Inspired by historical movements and counterculture, Freegans engage in activities like dumpster diving, wild foraging, and feeding the homeless.
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Xerox took out ads to discourage people from using their brand name as a generic term, as it could lead to them losing their trademark status.
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Dumpster was originally a trademark name for a big trash bin invented in 1935, and Freigans are people who engage in dumpster diving.
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Freigans are anti-consumerism and choose to live a lifestyle that involves scavenging and not buying things, including food, in order to protest the wastefulness of the consumer economy in America.
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Fregans are anti-consumerism and choose to live a lifestyle that involves scavenging and not buying things, including food, in order to protest the wastefulness of the consumer economy in America.
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Time banks allow individuals to earn "time dollars" by volunteering, which can then be used for anything within the time bank community, but it's difficult to completely avoid currency in some form; friggin's, who are anti-consumerism and live off scavenging, often have limited budgets and New York City is a popular place for friggin's due to the abundance of trash from wealthy residents.
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Freegans can legally go through trash in search of food due to the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act, which encourages the donation of leftover food to feed the poor and protects those who participate in the process from liability.
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Freegans also engage in wild foraging, gorilla gardening, and bartering, and while they have not yet figured out healthcare, they rely on health care collectives and free clinics to provide medical services.
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Freegans are inspired by historical movements like the Diggers and counterculture movements of the 60s, and one of the key figures in the modern Freegan movement is Keith McHenry; Freegans also engage in activities like gleaning and feeding the homeless through organizations like Food Not Bombs.
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Freegans live a minimalist lifestyle, relying on alternative means of obtaining necessities such as housing, food, and technology, and they reject the traditional consumerist system.
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