How far are you willing to go to live by the saying "waste not, want not"?

This was the question underlying a post by one Luo Yonghui in the Facebook group SG Food Rescue, in which he shared that he ate the leftovers from a stranger's plate at a coffee shop:

Luo, who calls himself a freegan, is someone who rejects consumerism and seeks to help the environment by reducing waste, especially by retrieving and using discarded food and other goods.

He said he had also used a new set of chopsticks and spoon to pick at the leftovers to fill his tummy.

"You're joking, right?"

And as you might expect, most people were stunned to say the least.

Some also pointed out that Luo's actions were a health hazard as the previous person might have been sick.

Outdoing the group's freegan co-founder

And still others pointed out that he might have outdone the group's freegan co-founder, Daniel Tay, who was also said to have done the same:

Tay: eating leftovers may be beyond the comfort zone of some

Tay himself has acknowledged however, that not everyone in the SG Food Rescue group is a freegan and that eating leftovers may be beyond the comfort zone of some.

This topic came up previously in February, where a user named Luc Tai posted a photo of some food he found left behind by a couple after their meal near where he was seated:

It looks like Luo was already interested in this endeavour at that point, having commented the following:

And also received an equivalent amount of shock and disbelief in response, with people thinking he was being rude for joking about Tai's question.

Tay himself acknowledged that he would have eaten the food left behind, a position that appears to have been heartily embraced by Luo.

So interested Luo seems to be in this endeavour that on the same day, he conducted a poll in the group to see how many would do the same:

As it turns out, three of them.

Amazing.

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Top image via post on SG Food Rescue Facebook group