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# (Untitled)
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/147/
- Published: 2005-03-08T04:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-05-18T10:12:05.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

**New and Improved Bums**

There are new bums in town: "freegans." Freegans scour trash dumpsters and eat leftover food as a political statement. According to a freegan interviewed in *The Bergen Record* (New Jersey), "It feels good when you watch all those people paying for food." Another said, "Being freegan is one way in which we are living a life that is consistent with the kind of world that we want to create. In terms of people having ownership of their lives and in terms of consuming in a way that is not destroying the planet."

In a *Seinfeld* episode, Kramer one time applauded the monastic life, "I like depriving myself of things." As Kramer sensed, asceticism is a higher calling. Unfortunately, it gets buried under layers of American stuff. The freegans, unfortunately, bury themselves in layers of American trash and call it a higher calling.