La Via Campesina : International Peasant Movement. SECRET FREEGAN: Rescuing Food to Feed Homeless. Standing beside a store dumpster opening a box of cookies she just pulled from a nearby garbage can, Ginger Freebird is a breath of fresh air.
Dressed in black Sketcher shoes and dark Ray-Ban sunglasses, she commonly makes the rounds through her neighborhood, diving into its dumpsters to see what treasures might await. A resident of Phoenix and in her early 50s, Freebird shows up armed with a number of the tools of the trade, including a thick jacket, aprons and gloves. Her short, dirty-blonde hair jutting out from beneath her dark baseball cap, Freebird looks every bit the part of one of the growing legion of "freegans," whose mission is to make use of the town rubbish. Ginger, who adopted the name to enjoy anonymity for this part of her life, says she rescues usable items, including food, from trashcans, harvesting what she considers society's waste and giving any excess discoveries to those in need, a practice she calls "binning.
" Becoming a Freegan. Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. JUDY VALENTE: Mary Jo McMillin is a cookbook author from the Chicago suburbs.
When she shops, she looks for fruits and vegetables that are in season, preferably locally grown. She doesn’t buy processed foods or fast food and makes sure she knows where the meat she’s buying comes from. Ethical Eating.