Posted on 11/24/2016 11:19:20 AM PST by OddLane
Americans will soon be feeling extra charitable. However, while random acts of kindness and helping those in need are as intertwined with the holiday season as colorful lights and gift giving, the government has chimed in to remind us that charitable efforts must be first be approved by the state.
The Kansas City Health Department put the kibosh on Kookers Kare’s attempts to feed the homeless.
The American Royal’s World Series of Barbecue is a longstanding tradition for community members of Kansas City, Missouri. Since 1899, the event has attracted the most talented barbecue chefs from all corners of the state, who gather annually to show off their skills. With so many BBQ experts in one place, there tends to be a fair amount of leftover food once the festivities come to a close...
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Not surprising. Leftism has never been about actually helping the less fortunate. The less fortunate are simply used as another cover and excuse for the Left to exert more control over all of us.
Is this fake news??? Otherwise it’s hard to believe.
These peoples' sphincters are puckered too tight. What happened to humanity?
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Easy to believe!
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No good deed goes unpunished.
Bleach? These people are f’d up. Poisoning food? Good thing I was not present.
Only the government is allowed to care for “the poor”, otherwise they might be helped by “the people”, and develop independent thoughts and break free of government dependence.
“All of that food was uninspected, so that makes it from an unapproved source, it can not be served to the public,” Kansas City Health Department Operations Manager Joe Williamson said.
The barbecue was cooked by some of the best teams in the world at last weekend’s American Royal. It was collected by Harvesters Community Food Network and Kookers Kare, a charity specializing in barbecue relief.
“We’ve had a great partnership and we’ve been able to collect that food over the years. However, in recent years food safety regulations have gotten tighter and more strict and continue to change,” Harvesters Director of Communications Sarah Biles said.
“Was it held at the proper temperature when it was collected, when it was transported, how was it transported, stored, stacked these are all questions we couldn’t answer and no one could tell us,” Williamson said.
Kookers Kare President Gary Benham said the utmost care for food safety was taken in both the collection and storage process. His organization wasn’t contacted at the time of the inspection.
Friday, Harvesters had to destroy the meat and sides it still had on-site and instruct partner agencies to do the same, meaning about 3,000 pounds of meat and 1,200 pounds of sides from this year’s American Royal will go to waste.
Benham said more than 3,000 people will go hungry this week as a result.
Williamson countered, “3,000 people a year die of foodborne illness, so this is nothing to play with, it’s very serious.”
Harvesters says it plans to work with Kookers Kare and American Royal to see if there’s any way they can collect barbecue team’s extra food next year. But with the health department’s stance that teams cooking on site don’t need to be permitted and so many questions about the source of the meat left unanswered, future donations seem unlikely.
“Did someone slaughter a hog or a cow from their home property, was it done under a USDA or state inspection? We don’t know,” Williamson said.
Kansas City Barbeque Society co-founder Carolyn Wells said she’s “disappointed all that good barbecue had to be wasted.”
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All that needs to be done is coordinate with the Health Department and this can happen. Not hard.
These articles try to bring division and anger rather than truth, light and solutions.
I doubt it’s fake, but it may be. I know of a church outside of Shreveport, LA whose pastor and his sons brought several deer worth of professionally cut and wrapped meat they hunted up to a homeless shelter in Shreveport, and the shelter wouldn’t accept or let anyone accept the meat because it wasn’t FDA approved. The homeless are just political pawns to the libs
This is the same asseniine rhetoric, as the Red Cross used during the floods down here in Louisiana!!!
Folks were out cooking for other folks, donating food to the shelters, and the Red Cross said that all of that was unacceptable!!!
This, or something very like it happened about a month ago in KC. Basically all of the food was put into dumpsters. If this is the second time it has happened, someone is a slow learner (as well as a slow cooker).
So you’re OK with begging permission from the state to do a charitable deed?
Wow. Just wow.
This, or something very like it happened about a month ago in KC. Basically all of the food was put into dumpsters. If this is the second time it has happened, someone is a slow learner (as well as a slow cooker).<<<<
It’s OK if the homeless crawl into the dumpsters to retrieve it though. I see it happen daily..and I’m NOT being sarcastic.
I see you are ok with demagoguing.
It happens a lot.
Kansas City Health Department Operations Manager Joe Williamson needs a beat down.
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BTW, did Jesus beg the Government to feed the multitudes with fish? I wonder if He filed the proper paperwork and keep those fish on ice until they could be cooked to Government standards. I suspect that had He not obeyed and bowed before the Government gods, He'd have been crucified for it.
One of the radio ads I DETEST is the little kid talking about “America has more food then we know how to use”, “I call them Food Angels. Yeah, I made that up.” Yet, The club I belong to asked MOW if they wanted the food left over at the end of the day to distribute and was told ‘We can’t give left overs’.
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