New laws and regulations have made it impossible for shops and restaurants to DONATE untouched food items.
They have to prove the items have been kept at a certain temperature and other conditions must be adhered to, which is totally stupid when it comes to items like donutes, muffins, cookies, etc.
A neighbor works next door to a donut shop and she watched dozens of boxes of donutes thrown away each night, when before Obama and his regulations, they were donated to food kitchens and shelters. There are now laws decreeing exactly HOW the food is delivered - I believe the bakery has to deliver the goods to a shelter in a vehicle that conforms to some new regulations, which the baker cannot afford to comply with.
Long story short, the friend waits behind the bakery until the goods are ‘thrown out’ and she is there to ‘catch them’. She then takes them to the public library, to nursing homes - we buy her gas cards to defray some of the costs.
The liberal wet dream is for everyone to be completely dependent on the government, which will be fully staffed with liberals (which is pretty much the case now). That’s why the charitable donations allowed for income tax purposes has been severely cut. Wealthy and not so wealthy people are now discouraged from donating, leaving the government to be the only Santa Claus that people in need can go to.
Anyone who doesn’t think this is a piece of the larger plan is delusional.
Once some homeless person digs a donut out of the trash and gets food poisoning, you bet your sweet bippy that some scumbag lawyer would file suit in a New York minute.
So now, dumpsters are locked, or in some cases, the businesses pour ammonia on perfectly fine food, so that nobody can access the perfectly edible food that is thrown away.
In the old days, McDonalds used to have a system where, if a burger wasn't sold by a particular time, it would be thrown out.
I know people who worked there who would tell friends when the "bad burgers" were being tossed, and they would just hand them the bag.
It was win-win.
Nowadays that wouldn't happen.
No offense to scumbags. I had no intention of equating scumbags with lawyers.
For the record, I apologize to scumbags.