Not Finding Enough Poverty, Media Invents Some
CNN: Extreme Recycling by Sarah Jio
“A lot of perfectly good food is thrown away,” says Nelson, a spokeswoman for Freegan.info, a New York City group that promotes “freeganism,” which eschews conventional commerce in favor of a lifestyle that uses minimal resources.
Freegans try not to buy things new — not even food.
Jumping into a garbage bin may sound scary, but Nelson, 52, who lives in Brooklyn, says it’s no big deal. Humans, she says, are “hardwired to be foragers.”
For the thousands who search online for free merchandise, pick up roadside castoffs and even dig through Dumpsters, paying for everything they need is yesterday’s news.
At a time when many Americans are on tighter budgets and worrying about environmental conservation, the practice may get more popular”
People around the world have to sift though garbage to survive, because they have no choice. I suspect they’d rather make a living in other ways.
But enviro-hippie-liberals in America, whose view of reality is based on lack and more lack, and who could avoid sifting though garbage, are now behaving in a way aligned with that belief.
Meanwhile, this biased media is so utterly desperate to make America look like a Third World country (it’s supposed to help Democrats when America’s economy is in the, ahem, dumpster) that it will publish wack job stories like these.
On a somewhat related note, the NAACP, which couldn’t “advance” a tricycle, is apparently unable to find any real racism to complain about, but no matter! When life gives you a molehill, make a mountain of it!.
