If capitalism is such an efficient system, why does 40 percent of all U.S. food production go to waste while one in six people in the nation face hunger? This startling truth has stirred increasing interest and action of late, but none so radical as that of the freegans, who live on what capitalism throws away including food culled from supermarket
Alex V. Barnard is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a food justice activist.
