You wouldn't think there were many more reasons to detest the giant conglomerate stealthily taking control of this country by spreading like a giant slug and suffocating small business wherever it goes, soaking up all objections to its progress and inexplicably leading councils, boroughs and government to gently push away piles of protests from men and women in the street, signing all permissions without demur, precisely as requested, and then rolling over and asking Tesco to slime their tummies.
But no. Apparently it is not enough to take £1 in every £11 spent in the UK. Now it is essential that no one should derive free benefit from its products, EVEN IF THEY HAVE BEEN THROWN AWAY. Tesco has decided to prosecute some poor woman who took a large quantity of ham from a Tesco bin. Apparently the fact of throwing something away does not mean that you relinquish ownerhip of it. Apparently.
Now, I don't know about you, but it is normally precisely in order to relinquish ownership of something that I put it in a bin. The bin is there to facilitate my relinquishing ownership of it. Because otherwise I would be living in an environment which would lead documentary makers specialising in films about mentally ill people who can't throw anything away and live in their own filth to come knocking on my door. If someone else can find a use for my waste, so much the better. The Freegan movement is well-established and I think performs a useful function, keeping down the tide of waste and utilising that for which most of society has no use.
What I see here is the biggest, fattest, most revolting dog I've ever observed in a manger, growling with aggression while cradling piles of past-sell-date ham.
I personally find the concept of Freeganism far less repulsive than this vile, vile giant slug of a corporation.
