Eaters of Trash

I have no problem with the poor fools who choose to dine on refuse, much of which is perfectly eco-friendly as food. Here's my problem: Giving refuse to the homeless and calling it eleemosynary:

Freeganism dates to the mid-’90s, and grew out of the antiglobalization and environmental movements, as well as groups like Food Not Bombs, a network of small organizations that serve free vegetarian and vegan food to the hungry, much of it salvaged from food market trash. It also has echoes of groups like the Diggers, an anarchist street theater troupe based in Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco in the 1960’s, which gave away food and social services.

That goes way beyond the "Top of the Muffin" episode of Seinfeld, in which Elaine baked whole muffins, then ripped the stumps off and left those at homeless shelters, much to the chagrin of the homeless. "Beggars can't be choosers" did seem the comic moral of that story. But discarded food mingling with all sorts of other filth and probably infested with bacteria — what right does anyone have to pass this on to the indigent, who can just as easily dumpster dive themselves?