Dumpster diving

  I've never had to dumpster dive for lack of money with which to buy food. What I love about the concept of it is not only that it's free food, which is always nice, but also that it's a bit different. It's not your everyday activity, and you never know what you're going to get, it encourages you to try more things and be open minded, and gives you a whole new respect for food. Unfortunately it is at present illegal in my country, as rubbish is considered to still be the property of whoever threw it out until it is collected.
  This is a law that really bugs me; I get that companies may not want to lose customers due to them not wanting to buy what they can get for free, but I believe that people who frequently dumpster dive probably couldn't afford food otherwise, and so would just go without or steal it, both of which are obviously worse than somebody taking food deemed not good enough for sale.
   Dumpster divers have a bit of a bad reputation, which doesn't help, for being people with no respect for other people's property. Unfortunately I must say that in many cases this is probably right; in the process of getting food people will not worry about the state in which they are leaving the area; leaving rubbish lying around, and graffiting et cetera...
   But in my opinion there is no sufficient reason for which a law should be in place on the matter... The government these days puts in place too many laws, I don't think that anarchism would be perfect by any stretch, due only to the fact that then the greed of everybody would come out in the world, as opposed to now where it's only that of the few people with political power... But I do think that an anarchistic society could deal with some matters far better than they are at the moment... Of course, I am not only speaking about dumpster diving, but the government can get a lot of things wrong. I know it's impossible to please everybody, but it doesn't seem to truly please anybody! Maybe I'm just being difficult though...