I just cannot see the benefit in regulating these charitable works to death. Its precisely this kind of thing that causes the dependency on government, as it replaces what ordinary citizens are often capable of and willing to do themselves.
If I want to go into a city and help the homeless by providing a hot meal, should I really be jumping through a million hoops and fine-print documents?
Can you open a soup kitchen in front of the New York Stock Exchange?
No!
This topic is dumped here by Liberals periodically.
Most cities require people selling cooked food to do a day or two of safe handling training. Helps keep the level of food poisoning and death down. Failure to have a certified food handling supervisor in attendance is one reason that restaurants get shut for violations, along with rats, mice, cold water only, warm refrigerators, etc