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Seattle Passes Laws to Keep Residents From Wasting Food
Breitbart ^ | 09/24/14

Posted on 09/24/2014 4:39:55 PM PDT by Enlightened1

The City of Seattle just passed a new trash ordinance that would fine residents and businesses for throwing away too much food.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: food; law; seattle; waste
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What law or legal authority does the city have to do this???

People need to go to the restaurants garbage, because you know they are throwing out food, and see if the city has the guts to fine them. If not, then the residents can claim discrimination.

Finally, the Authoritarian (aka communist) city council woman, Sally Bagshaw, tries to defend this in the video by saying, "it's only a little fine". She has NO LEGAL AUTHORITY. Someone needs to dig through her garbage along with the rest of the city council.

1 posted on 09/24/2014 4:39:55 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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Insinkerator sales are going to go into overdrive.


2 posted on 09/24/2014 4:40:38 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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To: Enlightened1

I just love symbolic jestures since all the other problems are solved.


3 posted on 09/24/2014 4:41:59 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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Tenants can really screw over the landlord by stuffing the trash with food and getting the landlord fined.


4 posted on 09/24/2014 4:43:42 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Enlightened1

Seattle deserves Seattle.


5 posted on 09/24/2014 4:45:44 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Enlightened1

My state representative just introduced a bill to do away with unenforceable ordinances.

The natural democrat response was that no ordinance is unenforceable if you just hire more people to enforce them. It never occurs to them that they may just be unenforceable because they’re an overreach.


6 posted on 09/24/2014 4:46:23 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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You know the local residence can just go over to the Seattle Seahawks stadium or Seattle Mariners stadium after a game and they will find plenty of wasted food....

Although I bet the city will not fine this mass amount of wasted food. After all they have diplomatic immunity. These ordinances only apply to the little people. The ciry needs to fire the entire council. Unbelievable!

7 posted on 09/24/2014 4:46:35 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

It is probably illegal to donate food that is still good but uneaten, to the homeless and needy. You get a fine for giving food to homeless. You get a fine for throwing it away. You are fined for finding a farmer to take it and slop his pigs. You are fined for piling it up in the back room. You pay a fee to make it, and you pay a fine, if you do not exactly estimate exactly how much your customers want. FREEDOM IS GREAT AIN’T IT???


8 posted on 09/24/2014 4:46:45 PM PDT by Klemper
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Catch 22 for restaurants. They have to throw out food but can be fined for doing so.


9 posted on 09/24/2014 4:47:23 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

And their rent increased ?


10 posted on 09/24/2014 4:48:09 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert (She accomplished nothing: should have stayed at home and baked cookies)
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I own a restaurant.

If we produce/cook too much food we cannot give it away because IF the recipient becomes ill.....enter the sue happy lawyers with extreme prejudiced.

Damned if you do-—damned if you don’t


11 posted on 09/24/2014 4:49:08 PM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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“The new rules would allow garbage collectors to inspect trash cans and ticket offending parties if food and compostable material makes up 10 percent or more”

Do the garbage men really have the time and inclination to personally inspect each garbage can as well as measure how much food is in the garbage? When the garbage men come down my street, they grab those trash cans, empty it into the truck, toss the garbage cans back to the curb and race towards the next garbage cans. I think they want to get that job over as soon as possible and get home just as quickly.


12 posted on 09/24/2014 4:50:43 PM PDT by lowbridge
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Lets apply these same laws to the schools that force children to take a carton of milk even though they are lactose intolerant, and gets dumped into the trash because they cannot consume it. RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH!


13 posted on 09/24/2014 4:51:17 PM PDT by Klemper
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"What law or legal authority does the city have to do this???"

This is a bona fide 10th Amendment-protected law imo.

And if voters don't like the law but sit on their hands with respect to working with the city to do something about it, then the city can raise the tax on throwing food away FAIC.

14 posted on 09/24/2014 4:52:28 PM PDT by Amendment10
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I didn’t read the article yet. So is the ticket added to the garbage collection bill? This could help pay for their wage increases and pensions!


15 posted on 09/24/2014 4:53:28 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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next...up

the Finish Everything On Your Plate Law


16 posted on 09/24/2014 4:54:46 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please Mr. President ..JUST STOP IT!)
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To: DLfromthedesert

With a city council this radically liberal...rent control can’t be far behind


17 posted on 09/24/2014 4:55:03 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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So now the garbage men, just like the cops, are primarily revenue generators for the city....., and then whatever their job is second.

I bet if this B.S. ordinance is allowed to exist, then you will see a slow exodus to leave the city. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.


18 posted on 09/24/2014 4:55:53 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Klemper

That’s right and every freaking government building INCLUDING the city council.


19 posted on 09/24/2014 4:57:11 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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Of course, when restaurants and hotels and so on try and give left over food to the homeless, liberal nannies like Bloomberg say NO!!


20 posted on 09/24/2014 4:58:19 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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