Trader Joe's donates abundantly and regularly to several local food banks. In fact, they are the leading donator and much appreciated by those in the know.
If this leftist weenie, Seifert, had a brain and actually cared about "wasted food," he would start a food bank to give the food away. But that would not make as good a "documentary" as slamming one of the most successful businesses of all time, Trader Joe's.
Activist = uppity assholes. Just shut up already.
What recession?
Liberal special interest groups are still FLUSH WITH CASH.
Now pay your taxes, said organizations need the money. :)
excellent point - what is his ultimate goal, "agitating" for liberals to weep so much that they pressure their Rat congressmen for government involvement, which would end up being more dictatorial seizures of our food system?
Bah.
On the other hand, for people who love "non-profit collectives" so much, this seems an ideal reason for one - as you said, how about a food bank that deals with a number of stores, gets all the health regs passed, and then re-routes the discarded-but-good food to the poor and homeless.
Oh, but yeah, you're right - that would actually solve the problem.
Or, in the words of Rahm Emmanuel - "waste" its "opportunity."
The legal liability issues from donating or otherwise recycling past-date food are severe -- and were created by the liberal meddlers in the first place.
Trader Joe's is caught in the crossfire between the "EEVIL corporations sell tainted/spoiled food" and the "EEEVIL corporations throw away perfectly good food". As usual, the liberals change their ground to suit their whim of the moment.
And it wouldn't bring him the $$$ these leftist pukes get from selling their wares to richer leftists for oh, should I say it.... PROFIT! No food banks are lucrative or contraversal - they merely function and perform a need - no money in that. Prime example, Michael Moore's documentaries - by the size of him, he has never even visited a food bank.
” Trader Joe’s donates abundantly and regularly to several local food banks. In fact, they are the leading donator and much appreciated by those in the know. “
I started shopping at TJ’s in 1976. It was the second one to open. It was on Riverside Dr. in Sherman Oaks. I’ve been in love with them ever since ;-)
I think in China they are now telling their children, “don’t waste your food, there are children starving in America.”
And their kids probably say the same thing we said: “How does me eating my food help a starving kid somewhere else?”
Anyway, if my post is rambling and off-topic, let me close with this:
“Activists” are a waste of oxygen.
Big grocers around here pad lock their dumpsters to keep people out of them. Otherwise they are liable to law suits if somebody gets sick from eating their garbage.
Here is why alot of restaurants toss food in the dumpster as one local KFC franchise owner revealed to me. Food banks accept the free food, then turn around and sell it for a profit. This KFC ceased donations once it was found out.
No more complicated or heartless or sinister than that.
But the trial lawyers would NEVER agree to granting them immunity from being sued for giving away free food.
I know from personal experience that Trader Jooe’s gives away large quantity of food to food banks.....
We’ve helped our local church pickup several shopping carts of food each week for delivery to the food bank.
I know from personal experience that Trader Jooe’s gives away large quantity of food to food banks.....
We’ve helped our local church pickup several shopping carts of food each week for delivery to the food bank.
They are building a new store just up the road.
Does that mean we’re gonna have a bunch of hippie protesters hanging around now?
To make amends, Trader Joes could donate some of their shopping carts to the homeless. /sarc
I LOVE Trader Joes... they have so many yummy items, i.e. frozen macaroni and cheese, grilled frozen asparagus, non-cured apple bacon, humus, apple cranberry scones, etc etc, just to name a few.
I used to shop at Trader Joe’s. I stopped shopping there when they started boycotting Israeli goods.
They should see how much McDonalds throws in the trash - hour after hour, day after day, year after year.
Billions and billions, no doubt.
“...and he feeds his family with the perfectly good food retailers routinely throw in the garbage.”
I bet his kids love to brag about that.