Sunday, September 30, 2007

Food Not Bombs

While interviewing current/former dumpster-divers, we discovered another activist group similar to Freegans:
Food Not Bombs



There's even an active Richmond chapter.

Food Not Bombs is a political group begun in the 1980's. They believe that if governments spent as much money on feeding the hungry as they do on wars, nobody would go hungry. Many even say that "corporate and government priorities are skewed to allow hunger in the midst of abundance". Bottom line, food is a right, not a privilege - and so to practice what they preach, they retrieve needlessly wasted food from grocery dumpsters and create weekly open banquets with the findings.

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