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To: usalady

I know someone that worked a middle school cafeteria 5 yrs. ago.
The waste then was criminal.
Once a carton of milk was placed on a tray, it was either drunk or to the garbage.
Most of the fresh fruit was tossed.
I asked once why the perfectly good excess food couldn’t be donated to a food bank, homeless shelter, etc.
Can’t do that. Legal liability issues.

I can imagine how much worse it is today.


35 posted on 07/21/2013 3:01:26 PM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Vinnie

in Texas..left over food is sent to special dumpsters and bid on by farmers for livestock food...i.e. revenue for the school daily


39 posted on 07/21/2013 3:05:40 PM PDT by advertising guy (.......... when Helen Thomas died........ Satan smiled and holler'd.....MaMa !!!)
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To: Vinnie

There was a time when the food scrap garbage would be picked up by a resourceful farmer to feed some pigs but I guess that time has passed, too.


41 posted on 07/21/2013 3:10:19 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Vinnie

I remember when I was in elementary school, I would toss my milk into the garbage because I did not like Milk yet they kept placing it in my meal. Also pieces of bread, but fries, hamburger, and maybe some fruit on occasion I would eat.


58 posted on 07/21/2013 4:19:10 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Vinnie

I distinctly recall when in grade school that all the students, when returning their trays would dump uneaten food into a 5 gallon pail. The janitor/maintenence engineer was a local farmer that lived a stone’s throw from the school... and every day the waste would feed his hogs.

French Bread pizza day, the hogs got nothing.

Wow, I am now remembering Monday mornings going to the cafeteria to prebuy lunch tickets... what a deal. I remember milk money... I think the half pints of whole milk were 7 cents.


76 posted on 07/21/2013 6:13:07 PM PDT by Rodamala
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