I’m sure there will be people salivating at the opportunity.
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bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
If I were in that situation, I would try quickly whipping up some homemade posters and put them at our market square, maybe in front of schools, and in front of grocery stores. I would make sure to specify why these are given away, otherwise people might be suspicious.
That would probably illegal, but …well… who’s going to sue a food bank over hanging a few posters for 2 days?
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 days ago
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Well, I commented that before I learned that OP is in New Mexico.
crank0271@lemmy.world 5 days ago
In the US? Where we pour bleach on food that has been discarded to make sure that someone who is hungry can’t eat it?
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
What the fuck? Seriously?
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Yes, grocery stores sometimes do this because they are again of being sued by someone who gets salmonella or something from the dumpster.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
This is what they tell the public.
In reality they just don’t want homeless people near their dumpsters.
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
Yup. Circa 2014, one of my sisters would gather up a bunch of food every week and have a ‘cook out’ at a park near here that was known to have a large homeless population. Basically, they fed anyone who asked for a plate. She did this with a group of friends who I guess were just bored and successful enough to want to feel good about feeding the homeless.
After a few months, their activities drew the ire of… someone, and they got raided by the cops and local health inspectors. Despite acknowledging the food they were serving was at the proper temp and all food handling protocol was being followed, they took an ‘every possible justification’ approach to the situation that they could and insinuated everything from unknown, dirty kitchens to lack of a catering license, with severe future legal threats if they were to continue feeding the homeless. The officials then poured bleach into the food and dumped it into the trash.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Damn. In other news, I’m radicalized now.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 days ago
its a liability issue to have homeless people/or dumpster diving for food.