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I doubt seriously roy, that truly homeless people care about the food they eat as fattening. They are so hungry, they just want something in their empty belly's is this too much to ask.
Your right, sometimes in trying to do, the absolute correct, government does make things so wrong.
It is a crying shame the amount of good food, that goes into the dumptsters.
Very true but the term dumpster divers did come from people who do just that to get food. They really don't give a damn how healthful the food is but then liberals do think that they can affect the health of homeless people with all their rules.
1) Its Bloomberg's idea and he IS NOT a liberal.
2) Bloomberg has indeed gone too far with policing "health" issues. I don't like these restrictions, including the smoking ban on train platforms (I don't smoke), and trans-fats, soda, sugar and salt policing.
Back when I lived in Seattle, something that used to just warm my heart was when I would be walking home from work at night and I would see food business employees bringing food they didn't sell that day, (ie: coffee houses, pizza joints, etc), out to the homeless so they would have something to eat.
But of course that didn't last because some busy body idiotic liberal thought that it was too dangerous to do that to the homeless, I mean, what if someone did something to that food!!!!! And that's just not fair to those homeless people!!!!
Because apparently dumpster diving is MUCH BETTER!
People can't just be kind and offer things anymore without some twit coming along and regulating it.
It is very possible that some people may "doctor" some of that food but most people wouldn't. Yes, some may die from that kind of thing but I doubt many of them would care at all if they got some food.
The Bloomberg administration is now taking the term “food police” to new depths, blocking food donations to all government-run facilities that serve the city’s homeless.
...and...
Fine, the city’s making enough nutritious food available to our homeless. (Court mandates require it.) But that’s no excuse for turning away charity that brings a tiny bit of joy into these lives.
Reading comprehension 101, guys. The homeless are being fed.
IMHO...It's still a stupid rule.
A very stupid rule and I really wonder who pays for that city provided food. I bet charity is not allowed so more taxpayers can pay for food.
No, we just need to wait until you guys actually read the damned article before the bloviating begins.
What is there to read? Homeless shelters are turning away food due to "nutritional" guidelines!! Whether it is city-run or private is wholly irrelevant. The whole damned policy is ignorant no matter WHO it is. But somewhere in the depths of the liberal mind this type of activity is acceptable.
It's a disease you folks possess. You just don't realize it.
1) Its from and by Bloomberg who IS NOT liberal.
2) Bloomberg has indeed gone too far with policing "health" issues. I don't like these restrictions, including smoking ban (I don't smoke) and recently the fat and "salt" police.
Oh no you don't. Michael Bloomberg is not a conservative. Dont' even try it.
If people had been dropping off out and out junk like Twinkies and Pringles and nothing else I could see it. But Jewish fare left over from Bar Mitzvahs? Oy Vey! This is SO not New York!
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