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McAvoy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 22, 2021 3:02 am
It's really not a hard concept.
Supermarkets can easily donate food that is about to expire to homeless shelters or set up a program where below poverty level families or person can pick up food.
"Easily". So tell me, who is going to pay for the logistics involved? The super-markets? Great plan of putting the burden from the government onto private shoulders.
McAvoy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 22, 2021 3:02 amCapitalism says that 'no they should work for their food' and 'they will expect free handouts now'. Treating them like they are some animal.
Nonsense. "Capitalism" doesn't say anything the like. That is your puritan/calvinistic work-ethos imported through the churches, permeating your society. Capitalism doesn't say anything about charity.
McAvoy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 22, 2021 3:02 amNot to mention there are some things where supermarkets can get their money back or at least a portion of it, if it's returned back. So yeah money beats morals.
"Get their money back"? From whom? The government? By extension, the tax-payer? Namely you and the poor sods who don't have a home in the first place, because either they can't aford one or don't even have a job, because we all damn well know who actually pays the taxes? So why don't you just buy some fresh food and send it to your local shelter, instead of the discarded foods which are discarded because the customer doesn't want to buy them anymore in the first place?
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McAvoy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 22, 2021 3:02 am
It's really not a hard concept.
Supermarkets can easily donate food that is about to expire to homeless shelters or set up a program where below poverty level families or person can pick up food.
"Easily". So tell me, who is going to pay for the logistics involved? The super-markets? Great plan of putting the burden from the government onto private shoulders.
I have personally worked for a homeless shelter and the shelter themselves do the logistics for the pick ups, you running dog lackey for the bourgeoisie.
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McAvoy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 22, 2021 3:02 am
It's really not a hard concept.
Supermarkets can easily donate food that is about to expire to homeless shelters or set up a program where below poverty level families or person can pick up food.
"Easily". So tell me, who is going to pay for the logistics involved? The super-markets? Great plan of putting the burden from the government onto private shoulders.
I have personally worked for a homeless shelter and the shelter themselves do the logistics for the pick ups, you running dog lackey for the bourgeoisie.
Exactly. Not that hard to group food that will be donated versus just throwing it out in the back dumpster. Then letting the various groups come and pick it up. All in all terms of paying workers do to this literally pennies in difference. Side benefit it, makes the back of the supermarket smell far less too.
Thebestoftherest wrote: ↑Wed Aug 18, 2021 12:13 am
Wait is GMO the stuff company tries to use to sue family for trying to used seeds they grow themselves on their own property.
Monsanto is infamous for this practice yes. The issue is basically that they're allowed to patent any particular variant, and they've now filed so many for different kinds of corn they very nearly own the entire genome.
So it's less something inherent to GMOs as a concept and more yet another failing of IP law.
McAvoy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 22, 2021 3:02 am
It's really not a hard concept.
Supermarkets can easily donate food that is about to expire to homeless shelters or set up a program where below poverty level families or person can pick up food.
"Easily". So tell me, who is going to pay for the logistics involved? The super-markets? Great plan of putting the burden from the government onto private shoulders.
I have personally worked for a homeless shelter and the shelter themselves do the logistics for the pick ups, you running dog lackey for the bourgeoisie.
Exactly. Not that hard to group food that will be donated versus just throwing it out in the back dumpster. Then letting the various groups come and pick it up. All in all terms of paying workers do to this literally pennies in difference. Side benefit it, makes the back of the supermarket smell far less too.
Panera Bread makes a big song/dance about doing just that... Shame at least one of the food banks around us has a bad habit of not picking the stuff up. It genuinely hurts to throw it out.
McAvoy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 22, 2021 3:02 am
It's really not a hard concept.
Supermarkets can easily donate food that is about to expire to homeless shelters or set up a program where below poverty level families or person can pick up food.
"Easily". So tell me, who is going to pay for the logistics involved? The super-markets? Great plan of putting the burden from the government onto private shoulders.
I have personally worked for a homeless shelter and the shelter themselves do the logistics for the pick ups, you running dog lackey for the bourgeoisie.
Exactly. Not that hard to group food that will be donated versus just throwing it out in the back dumpster. Then letting the various groups come and pick it up. All in all terms of paying workers do to this literally pennies in difference. Side benefit it, makes the back of the supermarket smell far less too.
Panera Bread makes a big song/dance about doing just that... Shame at least one of the food banks around us has a bad habit of not picking the stuff up. It genuinely hurts to throw it out.
My first job (well second, since I was a paperboy), I worked at a little Mom and Pop supermarket. The owner made a point that any food that gets close to going bad to group up and he would personally take it the various charities, houses etc.
His reasoning? He hates to see food thrown out. The man was a oddball, a bit of tyrant when it came some stuff like the veggie, meat and deli sections. Then on slow days he allowed, us high school students to break out our homework or textbooks at the cash register.
The Shop Rite where I live from what I understand also donates food. They also sell older foods like meat, deli, etc up to 70%. Good enough to eat that day or within a few days or freeze immediately.
I read something that made me ponder today: if we are talking about man-made dangers in the food chain, it isn't rice, its the fact that anyone who eats fish is filling their bodies with microplastics. And yet how many people are seriously scared of eating fish?
clearspira wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 10:26 am
I read something that made me ponder today: if we are talking about man-made dangers in the food chain, it isn't rice, its the fact that anyone who eats fish is filling their bodies with microplastics. And yet how many people are seriously scared of eating fish?
Or how most of the USA's supply of canned tuna has trace amounts of mercury inside. Sadly, it's also the best protein-to-price ratio I know of, anymore.
clearspira wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 10:26 am
I read something that made me ponder today: if we are talking about man-made dangers in the food chain, it isn't rice, its the fact that anyone who eats fish is filling their bodies with microplastics. And yet how many people are seriously scared of eating fish?
I am not. Something will kill me eventually. Might as well enjoy food as long as my body can hold up.
