Starting Sunday, May 24, I'll spend a week eating wild food that I forage from sidewalks, parks, wilderness areas and yards in the city of Portland, Oregon. There will be no dumpster diving or mooching off gardens; I will be eating wild edibles only.
Normally I see this stuff, laugh and then move on but this is so representative of Portland that I had to put it out there.
In the "everyone must sacrifice" world of the commune it is very impressive that this girl is willing to give up "dumpster diving" for a whole week. We should all try to live without those creature comforts in the name of saving the planet.
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Prediction : that is going to be one hungry lady by the end of the week.
Daniel,
What is it with your obsession over people who choose to live life differently than you live yours?
For someone who wants government out of people's daily lives, you sure do spend a lot of time obsessing and criticizing other people for some of the most mundane bullshit I can imagine.
What's your fucking point?
Are any natural herbs involved with this diet.....? (lol) or should they be...
I think we should be able to comment on anyone who puts it out there to comment on.
There is a point when they put stuff out there, that they are trying to make a statement of here is what everyone should be doing...
Sidewalks? So this "wild food" will be someone's McDonald's leftovers that missed the trash can?
And yards? So she'll be trespassing as well?
Daniel, once again, you seem to have taken a page from the Lars Larson, “Let’s see how much we can misrepresent an issue” handbook. To wit, you wrote:
“In the "everyone must sacrifice" world of the commune it is very impressive that this girl is willing to give up "dumpster diving" for a whole week. We should all try to live without those creature comforts in the name of saving the planet.”
Please explain the following, Daniel:
1. Where in this article did it say or suggest this person lives in a commune?
2. Where in this article did it suggest that this girl is giving up dumpster diving? (I read the entire article, and it never once says she has ever dumpster dived in her life. On the contrary, it says she is “accustomed to the comforts of restaurants and supermarket food.”
3. Where does she state that we should all live without creature comforts? On the contrary, she expressly states that with this project she is “…interacting with the Earth the way ‘I’ was meant to.” (No mention of the way YOU were meant to.)
Moreover Daniel, her entire message and point here – that it can be a good idea to learn some of the foraging skills our ancestors were once quite familiar with - is itself actually quite “conservative”. Given this, perhaps this post from you serves as just the latest example of the oft-repeated premise that modern “conservatives” have no idea what they actually stand for. To be sure, your cynical, inaccurate, and quite frankly boorish take on this article brings me one step closer towards understanding why people are abandoning in droves the political and social ethos you champion.
Excellent point, 9:52, I was saying the same thing and I noticed your post. Sure, I suppose it's a little silly, but ultimately what she's doing is in the best tradition of self-sufficiency and independent living, a "survivalist" lifestyle. I wonder if Daniel would feel better about it if she were wearing combat fatigues, carrying 40 pounds of ammo with a semi-automatic rifle slung over her shoulder and her face smeared with war paint.
Yet more proof that Daniel never THINKS before he posts. Ever.
What will be interesting is how she processes the information she receives from her week-long odyssey. I wish her well, simply because I'm a parent and if my kids were this stupid I would hope the experience would help them gain a greater understanding of how wonderful the much despised global economy is truly.
Nemaste.
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This woman's idea of being an outdoor enthusiast means knowing how to actually survive outdoors, which involves, among other things, knowing what is safe to eat and what isn't.
Daniel's idea of being an outdoor enthusiast means shooting his rifle in a rock pit.
I bet this girl would kick Daniel's whimpy delivery driver racist butt surviving in the wild.
...this is so representative of Portland.
Um, yeah, Daniel. Most of Portland's half million plus residents enjoy eating weeds and ants' eggs. Just keep telling yourself that. LOL. He's a delivery driver? Jesus, no wonder he has so much time to fill his fool head with Lars Larson. What a rich life this guy leads. LOL!
Someone I am sure will be complaining that she is eating some protected weed and it would not surprise me if Portland has a law about eating grass.
Or it is another research study from sleepy Ted trying to find "greener ways" to now use a lawn mower.
How very cool! Foraging from sidewalks sounds really interesting. Nothing grows the good stuff like poodle poop and wino puke in downtown Portland.
Query: if there are wilderness areas in Portland, why do we need more wilderness areas in the many national forests that predominate in the state? Aren't those Public Lands?
It seems only reasonable to make those Public Lands accessible to folks in wheelchairs.
The McDonalds worker dissing a trucker driver. That's rich.
She is missing the effects of acid rain and pollutants that the all natural will have upon it...Not to mention the pig sneeze and dog urine..
Save a sam , smoke an indian!
Classic Miglavs: When he has nothing to say, he says something anyway.
HA!!!....THATS FUNNY.....
Wash those wild edibles really well. -Trust me!
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