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

• MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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