Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer

• hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Where we pour bleach on food that has been discarded to make sure that someone who is hungry can’t eat it?

  What the fuck? Seriously?

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  • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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    • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is what they tell the public.

      In reality they just don’t want homeless people near their dumpsters.

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      • bluesheep@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Or to give away anything for free. They’d rather destroy it than give away something that could’ve made money.

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      • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m sure that’s a reason too.

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  • 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.

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    • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Damn. In other news, I’m radicalized now.

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  • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    its a liability issue to have homeless people/or dumpster diving for food.

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