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The best part of this story, Rick, is that most homeless people are also hungry people and not really worried about how healthful the food they get to eat for free happens to be. This is an outstanding example of how weak and ineffective government can be in its attempts to be something it can't be.
Throw all that food in the dumpster and watch the divers going after it. It is so much more sanitary from the dumpster.
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.
The best part of this story, Rick, is that most homeless people are also hungry people and not really worried about how healthful the food they get to eat for free happens to be. This is an outstanding example of how weak and ineffective government can be in its attempts to be something it can't be.
Throw all that food in the dumpster and watch the divers going after it. It is so much more sanitary from the dumpster.
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.
If you return food items to the supermarket or wholesale clubs, even if they are unopened and within the sell-by date, they are thrown away. These could go to many a hungry home or homeless shelter, but apparently our STUPID gubmint have decided that the 1/100,000,00 chance of a terrorist who injects food items with poison and returns them to the store with the idea of mass murdering homeless people far outweighs the idea of feeding millions of hungry, homeless people.
I'm sick to my teeth with the gubmint meddling in every single matter.
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.
Some people always have a problem with something and they do much harm than good.
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.
Last edited by carterstamp; 03-19-2012 at 01:52 PM..
And it only applies to city-run shelters. And although I also think it's a stupid rule, there are homeless shelters that aren't run by the city that the food can be donated to. One example can be found within the first couple of comments on the article:
Donate food to NYC Rescue Mission, a private shelter/sanctuary in Lower Manhattan..we serve anyone at our door have been accepting good-neighbor food donations since 1872. NYCRESCUE.ORG for more info & NYC RESCUE MISSION at facebook for photos& videos.
Sounds like a win-win for conservatives:
1) the food doesn't have to be thrown out, and
2) The charity is being administered by non-government organization, which should thrill you since you're always saying that the gov't should get out of the charity business, aren't you?)
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