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It's not that it's a good or bad idea, it's that the government is standing over these people as they take out the trash.
In Seattle, they used to hand out their leftovers at the end of the night to the homeless on the streets...that is, until some busy body decided to claim that "someone might poison" or hurt the homeless by putting something in the food. Businesses were no longer allowed to give their food out to the homeless.
In Florida, you can't give food to the homeless unless the government allows it.
Share No More: The Criminalization of Efforts to Feed People In Need
Go to page 5 of that pdf.
Now in Austin, you can't throw it away, but you could give it to the homeless who are hungry.
I mean FFS, can the GD left make up their fricken minds what the hell they want?
In KC years ago, volunteers would go every few hours to places like KFC, and collect the food. Most fast food places only allow cooked food to be sold for a short period of time, and they took it to the homeless. The health dept. stopped them. Now it goes in the trash.
Senior Gleaners volunteers in our area go around to restaurants and grocery stores to pick up dated food that the gleaners freeze and store until they can deliver to shelters. Glad the government is not stepping in to stop it.
Why not offer a tax break to restaurants who comply (voluntarily of course) and leave the rest alone? At least a tax break would help offset the costs of this misguided scheme.
I don't know what the current culinary landscape of Austin looks like, but the more regs that are heaped on businesses the higher the bar to entry.Chilis, Applebees,Mickie D's, etc. love this stuff because it keeps pesky local start-ups away
Last edited by Frank DeForrest; 10-08-2018 at 05:50 PM..
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