number four =]

OPRAH HAS CHANGED MY LIFE!

seriously,

that woman is a genius.

so on today's episode she talked about freegans. who are anti-consumerism, community loving, socially concerned people. They get [well some not most] their food from grocery store dumpsters, when they would have no need to be thrown away.

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freegan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dAOyUimAPQ

Basically, these people that call themselves freegans, are anti-consumerismerists [dont kill me if i didnt spell that right] who are totally looking out for our future. Being in a country that wastes so fckn much, and really doesnt care to change it's ways [except for the recent "Green" movement that really is kind of a joke, but atleast people are getting the point] it truly opened my eyes.

Freegans precycle [buying things in bulk to help reduce air pollution used when recyclables are melted down.] where they avoid junk mail, and choose to read things such as magazines online to avoid the obnoxious amount of paper.

They also dumpster dive.YES! the go in the garbage to get food, I was really grossed out when hearing this. They go to grocery store garbages, and look through them to get grocerys. Everything they get is pretty much what you have in your refridgerator.Think about it....the day you buy your stuff in the grocery store...you eat it. And a couple weeks after that you still eat it. Freegans are doing the EXACT same thing, only their taking the food that YOU [well not you, but it was with the food that you bought] that day and eating it. Because its in the "garbage" we qualify it as bad. And because grocery stores have crazy restrictions on how long they can keep things out to sell, the food the Freegans get is perfectly edible and fine.

Freegans also use furniture that has been thrown out. And supposdely is "not useable"It seems gross, dirty, useless, dumb, and ridiculous all at the same time.

But think of how much you waste. When you throw away a paper towel, when you brush your teeth all the water you use, all the paper you use from school worksheets. If you have worksheets from like chemistry that are blank on one side, use that side for math homework or notes rather than throwing that shit away.Making the future liveble for our grandchildrens children is all resting on us. And just because your lazy, and dont feel like stepping out of what you normally do, is an honestly dumb excuse not to help the world around you.

thats my peace rap for today. take it into consideration.

anyways, a tout a l'heure