Is it foolish, lazy and even immoral to pay for food?

On my profile, my slogan is question everything!’

So I would like to explore the question in the title.

On my journey through life, I have started to question some of the very basic memes we were indoctrinated with from early days.
One of them was the so called work ethic. At a young age, the masses were instilled with this idea that a good person works hard and has to pay for things. If you can recognise that as just conditioning you can get over it. It’s not the truth. Just an idea.

If you live in a city like I do, every day and night, tons of food is wasted. To me, it seems lazy and foolish to pay for food when it is being thrown away in such huge quantities around every corner of your city or town. If we were wise and had got over the ridiculous conditioning that we (unlike any other creature on earth) should work for a living to BUY food, then we would not be embarrassed to spend some time researching what local food businesses do with their left over food and arrange amicably and quietly to liberate that food from going into the bin. Surely, if you and I spent the time we would be working building relationships with local restaurants, green grocers, caterers and other food shops, we could surely strike a deal with at least a small percentage of them to share their food before it goes to waste.
If we don’t publicise what we are doing to others, I believe local business would be happy to help.

Then there’s growing our own food. Something which most of us, myself included, have litttle experience with.

It also strikes me as morally questionable supporting supermarkets for a whole plethora of reasons. For a Start, they are involved in factory farming. That means the raping of cows to get them lactating, the fiddling with their nipples (beastiality?) the stealing of their bodily fluids for our cereals, and if that’s not bad enough, the wholesale slaughter of millions of animals. And the murder of these beings is a good result for them because living on factory farms is no life at all.
Then there’s the relentless pushing of addictive and poisonous products. There’s sugar in so many things. And crisps, chocolate, cakes, alcohol, biscuits, bread and fizzy drinks. All these things are highly addictive and they can lead to all sorts of physical, mental and even spiritual malady. Then there’s the pittance they pay to their suppliers. And of course the huge amount of waste.

Is it acceptable to give them ANY money at all? Especially when there’s more food than you could ever eat being thrown away as I write this!