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

• Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  they had no place to store a case of tomatoes, or cauliflower.

  It wasn’t homeless or starving people turning it away. It was other organizations that didn’t have the space to store it. Probably because their shelves were also full of food that they need to give away before it spoils.

  storing it is their main concern

  … How exactly do you imagine this works? How do you accept food that you can’t put anywhere? Let me guess, you think they should just bring it to the homeless? Well:

  Word got out that we were loading up my pickup with food and taking it to the homeless camps. I did get a number of them to start coming to the bank to get food. But it was easier when I could take stuff to them.

  He literally can’t bring the food to the starving. If he could, the food would all be eaten by the people that need it. There are people that absolutely will take and eat this food because they are starving, but OP can’t deliver it to them.

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• crusty@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Where did you read that? I’m actually curious, please quote!

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  • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Literally the third sentence in the OP:

    “We were trying to give away cases of the food on Wednesday, but people were turning it down because they had no place to store a case of tomatoes, or cauliflower.”

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    • crusty@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I see your confusion, people aren’t simply saying no to vegetables, they’re saying no to cases of the same vegetable as they know they realistically won’t be able to eat it all before it goes off.

      I also have a feeling you skipped the last part:

      “We are not allowed to simply give it out to anyone. This is not like a church pantry where all of the food is donated by the community and’s parishioners. There is government funding, as well as private businesses, which I am guessing get their money back from the government for funding this. If we could simply give it to anyone we would not be in this situation.”

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• nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I said they did not want it in large quantities. Most of the people who come through the bank are conscious of other’s and know they do not have the time or means to deal with all of the extra fresh produce while working multiple jobs, or some live in a motel room with only a microwave. So they do not take something that maybe someone else could use. We did have some people taking cases. But not everyone can deal with that.

  Everyone was given, I think, 4 heads of cauliflower and a dozen tomatoes in their cart. Very few did not take them. They were also offered a case of veggies. Which most declined. Hell I did not even take a full case myself because I know I did not have time to process it.

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