The Wiener had an article about them and now also the Falter has them on the title (of its Graz’ secondary) so I guess there has to be something about it: Freegans are around. These people mix “free” and “vegan”, wait till its dark and then go dumpster diving. i.e. searching the dumpsters of supermarkets for food that has been thrown away because it doesn’t appeal to the tastes of the mass consumers because they are labelled wrongly, have little dents or ditches or have plain jumped over the expiration date.

And I can understand them, partly.

Every year about 13.5 tons of fresh food are being thrown away in Vienna. Have you ever watched the sales ladies at e.g. Anker stuff leftover bakery into one big mesh just to be thrown away. Because everybody prefers freshly baked food to one from yesterday or even this morning. The world doesn’t has a problem with the fabrication of enough food, but with the distribution. And profit-thinking.
Ironically, profit-thinking also plays an important role in freeganism, because as a lot of them say, this kind of shopping is a lot cheaper. (Very much like people riding the subways without tickets, these people don’t share a thought that everybody else pays for their food…)
Before you jump into the nearest local dumpster yourself, be warned: being selective and careful is the main objective. Food poisoning is not a funny thing and eating spoilt or halfway rotten food can be lethal. (And then the rest of us has to pay for your health care… - the unsolved problem of: if you want to place yourself out of society, you are just as dependant on society as the people inside.)
Estimations are that there are about a dozen or so people really doing this kind of thing in Vienna. If you spot any of them, give them a thumbs up for cool marketing. Because, after all, hundreds of homeless people are doing the same thing in Vienna, but out of necessity, without the groovy ideology and without alternatives.

http://freegan.info/

PS.: And I cared about the bread thrown to the ground by that little kid and then put back into the sales basket! And these people eat from the trash can.