免费素食主义指的是回收利用被当做废物丢弃的食品和物品的行为。免费素食主义者们尽自己的努力，以一种生活方式的形式进行环境抗议活动。他们的目的是限制对环境的影响，将对传统经济的依赖最小化。

Freeganism is a practice and ideology of limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources, particularly through recovering wasted goods like food.

免费素食主义是指有限参与传统经济，尽力减少资源消耗的行为和理念，通过重复利用食品等废旧物品来践行。

The word "freegan" is a coinage derived from "free" and "vegan". While vegans might avoid buying animal products as an act of protest against animal exploitation, freegans—at least in theory—avoid buying anything as an act of protest against the food system in general.

免费素食主义者（freegan）一词由free（免费）和vegan（严格的素食主义者）两个词组合而成。严格的素食主义者不购买动物产品，以反对对动物的杀害。而免费素食主义者不购买所有物品，以保护整个食物体系，至少在理论上是这样。

Studies usually find that most people that participate in practices associated with freeganism, like dumpster diving for food, do so for economic reasons.

研究经常发现，大多数参与免费素食主义的人，比如参与垃圾搜寻，经常是出于经济原因而这样做。