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@JohnSmith-or9le ACTUALLY THEY ARE EXTREMELY GRATEFUL. I KNOW I WOULD BE. IF YOU EVER SPENT ONE DAY IN YOUR LIFE IN NEED YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND HOW FOOLISH YOUR STATEMENT JUST WAS. AS I HAVE BEEN IN NEED BEFORE AND I'M NOT EXACTLY LIVE IN THE HIGH LIFE AT THE MOMENT I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE AND COMMON SENSE THAT IS JUST A SILLY GROUNDLESS ATTITUDE. Don't defend this bad policy. It's not defensible. It's a thin veil because they would rather waste then donate food that they've already decided they didn't want. Now explain to me the logic in that? However they try to justify it there IS no justification. It won't make them more money if they waste their food because people that can't afford it won't be able to buy it anyways so the best that can happen is the waste food, and they'll lose money by doing so. By donating food that would otherwise go to waste they can redirect that same inventory and help someone not be hungry. They've already chosen not to sell that food. It was THEIR choice. Now the only moral choice after that is to donate that food to someone who will take it. First they should make it available to the employees, then it should go to the community. This should be the law. This should have always been the law; why it's NOT the law right now is actually a mystery to me. This is actually something I feel very serious about and I'm going to be advocating to make it the law in my state which is California. There's no excuse for it not to be the law. Once a business has already made a decision that they are going to pull something from a shelf then their next decisions should be clear. Now it gets given to someone who can use it. Employees, then the community. Again this isn't violating anyone's rights. The private business made the decision to pull this product. The moment you do, you release all of your interest in said product. It then becomes community property. These should be the basic laws of ALL business.
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@horaciomurillo7135 urban legend. I've looked up information on this and I haven't been able to find any. It's just another misperception that gets passed around a lot to excuse companies that don't want to help their community under the selfish and erroneous belief it will lower their profits.
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@huntermay8322 exactly. This is actually an issue that is very very important to me and I'll be doing everything in my power to get the strictest of food redistribution and reuse policies past in my lifetime. at least within my own state which is California and hopefully it'll spread to others. It's unforgivable with so much in this country and yet so much poverty. There's two kinds of poverty. financial needs, and then there's what I call tangible poverty, the lack of food and goods. Do you know how much we throw it every year in this country probably double what we use. Whatever it is the exact amount is, it is unforgivable and it is outrageous. And I will be fighting to stop the intentional waste in this country of food and tangible goods that could be repurposed they're by ending most if not all of the tangible poverty in this country. You're absolutely right. It should be a national shame that this happens because it happens all across the country in every grocery store, convenience store, and food establishment. There's no excuse for intentional waste of anything unless it's unusable or spoiled. Intentional waste by business says "only MY needs matter. Nobody else has a right to this item Bec they didn't have the money today and I don't care about my community". That's an acceptable to me. ending financial poverty will take some more doing, but we could end tangible poverty right here right now. It's something I intend to never stop fighting for. There's NO excuse for either financial OR tangible poverty in a country which according to all sources has more physical and financial resources than any other on Earth!
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@mayssm this is why I say that some food safety regulations need to change Bec they are way too strict and are causing disgraceful amounts of perfectly healthy food waste. Food safety is important, but some standards are just too strict. Like saying if I leave a perishable item out on my counter for two hours in 75°F temps I should throw it away. That would be way too overly cautious. Spoiling doesn't start that fast. Some food safety regs can be loosened.
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@knell18897 how is it wrong to redistribute food to people who would want it or need it so that it doesn't get wasted? If management at any store or business that sells food has already decided to dispose of it for whatever reason, it doesn't matter why, then it becomes community property. It's outrageous to think something should go in the trash instead of serving a vital use for living people. So if an employee DOES get fired for giving away food that was already destined to be wasted, that should be against the law. I'll be pushing for much stronger food redistribution laws in my state in the future. There's no morally justifiable reason for intentionally wasting something when it could easily be given away with a tiny bit of effort and it cost the company nothing. That they would rather waste than either A)make sure their employees get it or B) make sure it's dropped off to somewhere in the local community where it will help other people, should be unacceptable. These kinds of attitudes should be shamed and called out as wrong. It's the intentional and gross waste of millions of tons of consumable food and usable goods in this country that is responsible for most of the poverty. The other causes are low wages and unjustly high rents. But we have tangible goods in this country that could solve most of the poverty problems right now. Instead what happens? Most of them end up in the trash due to laziness and the corrupt, selfish intentions of senior management at these companies. That shouldn't happen.
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@j3zhott and that's why under law they can be declared free of liability for any food that is donated. If one chooses to claim donated food they automatically give up the right to hold whichever company donated it liable for any adverse effects they may experience. Besides, it's a one in a billion chance that anything like this would ever happen. Nobody who takes donated food goes back to the place they got it from and says oh it made me sick. That's never happened and even under current laws it would be unlikely that they would be able to win that case in court for a variety of reasons. That's generous just an excuse that lazy and selfish companies use because they don't want to redistribute their food that would otherwise be thrown out. They think that somehow lowering their profits, which it's not in any meaningful sense, or in most cases at all. It's all about greed. It's a gross attitude and it should be shamed and criticized.
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@trash_atlife2439 an urban legend propagated by selfish and lazy owners of companies who think that if they redistribute the goods that they would otherwise throw away everybody would just wait to get them for free. This is unrealistic and completely flies in the face of human nature. the vast majority of people will never wait to get something when they have the money to get it for themselves now. But I've discovered in my life so far that a lot of these so-called geniuses in these businesses are not that bright and their logic is really faulty. It's a nonsense assumption. the only people who are going to wait for donated items are those that never had the money for them to start with. Everybody else is going to buy what they want if they have the means to afford it. That's how every human being is ergo, these businesses assumptions are illogical and stupid.
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@HeleSha as if that's a justifiable reason for firing him. and if a couple homeless people do that what? They might wait in the vicinity but I doubt they'll come right up to the door. And even if they do that, what's the harm in THAT? All an employee has to do is ask them to step off or go about their way. I think it was just an excuse to fire the person because the manager was very, very selfish and just had an unkind heart and didn't want to help anybody or see anyone get help. A lot of people have this attitude and I think it's really sad. They blame people who are in serious need for their situation they always feel that there was something that they should have done or could have done, and then it's their fault that their homeless or destitute or very poor and that they don't deserve anything, because if you don't have the money to pay for it, you don't deserve it. They don't even have a concept for helping people who are in need. you could be starving for all they care but if you don't happen to have money in your position that's too bad so sad nobody deserves anything for free even if they're dying or things happen to them outside their control doesn't matter. These are the kind of people who are kind of in a cult of money meaning if you don't have money that's your problem nobody else should help you and you don't deserve anything that you can't pay for. these are very common attitudes today unfortunately. A lot of people fall prey to this type of thinking, and I'm willing to bet that that's exactly what this manager was thinking when they went so far as to fire an otherwise very good employee over nothing. You have to be straight asshole to on a fire somebody for something like this. That's how they think. They don't make exceptions for people who are experiencing unusual misfortune or a bad turn. They don't have empathy and so these are easy attitudes for them to justify. I just think it's sad basically. And then they back it up with more leaps of logic and fallacious incorrect assumptions as I described earlier. It's all ridiculous. What we need is changes to the laws that govern businesses regarding leftover tangible goods, including edible food.
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@fahm8097 this is how grocery stores and damn near everywhere likes to think. It's a crime. It has to change. Simple laws are needed and I hope I can be a part of it. Some people just don't get it. WASTE ISNT OK, and it doesn't HAVE to happen! Preventing waste makes a REAL difference in people's lives! For one, if you can access basic food and goods that would otherwise be discarded you don't need as much money to live- meaning if you're poor now you have a little bit more financial security. It's going to be a little bit easier for you to make your rent. Cuz you don't have to stretch a dollar as far. and even if somebody doesn't care about it from the humanitarian perspective look at it from the environmental perspective something that gets frequently overlooked in this discussion. We don't have vaporization technology yet. Right now as we continue to choose to waste millions of tons of food and tangible goods that could be easily redistributed but aren't, they end up in the landfill. Landfills may have a lot of capacity but they're not infinite. They don't even make sure to redistribute the food waste to a special location where it can be broken down to be used as fertilizer and other organic uses. So do you see how outrageous the system is. Well simply put the laws need to change. We need to keep as much out of the landfill as possible, we need to redistribute organic waste to proper places where it can be reinputted for organic use, and we need to ensure as much food and goods that an establishment chooses not to sell gets donated back into our communities as possible. That's called a 'circular economy' and not only does it take care of our communities much better by keeping them fed, it takes a HELL of a lot fucking better care of the Earth by repurposing material that would otherwise be wasted that can now be used for animals and/or fuel sources.
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@fahm8097 I'm a bit of a utopian idealist, but I think it's fair to demand laws that try to limit intentional non-necessary waste. We're literally wasting something that can help keep someone alive and have a better life. I know donuts aren't exactly the most nutritious thing but that's just one item, there's a shocking amount of food of all kinds both perishable and non perishable going to the trash every day and I don't like that. I would like everyone who has a stake in this to realize that we shouldn't do this, we can do better, and we shouldn't be so casual with our resources especially since in a country that is so resource-Rich. other countries with literally kill for our level of abundance. Knowing that, why do we have such a high level of poverty? Why do they say 1 out of every 7 Americans including children may go to bed hungry every night? We can end this. I think with a few simple changes we could pretty much eliminate that. We just need to get into a habit of not wasting anything that can be saved and redistributing our surpluses. I just want to see a little higher public cooperation and public consciousness. Aside from just making it a local ordinance, or state law which is what I'd really like to see, I would just like us to get into this habit and I'll do it too, cuz I've worked in food service before, although it's been a while, but as part of the ordinance we could offer tax and bonus incentives to businesses who go out of their way to contribute all their surplus material (and I'd also like to apply this to goods as well aka household goods hygiene etc). I think once implemented and coupled with a public education campaign through media, it could work really well. It's kind of like recycling now. No not everyone participates it but a lot of people do and most places make it easier for residents to do that by providing containers, pamphlets, etc. I know they did in places I've lived. They usually give you the tubs to help you sort your recycles and so on. So local govts can can help businesses by making it easier for them to participate. We can ask businesses themselves to transfer this material as part of their normal duties, but we can also provide them local city-funded trucks or local food bank trucks or assistance from local charities to help pick up this these items as well. It can be a team effort and if everyone pitches in I think it could work very smoothly and very well.
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@fahm8097 agree w way too many useless laws imo
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@fahm8097 lol fair nuff.
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Now just imagine if every retail establishment that served food insured that any leftover food that would have otherwise been discarded was first given to the employees as much as they wish to take, and the rest dropped off at a local homeless shelter or other community charity. just imagine what a wonderful world that would be if we did these simple things for each other. Well I'll tell you what, I'm a very politically active person and I intend to get more political active in the future. If I'm ever in a position where I'm able to change this policy, perhaps on a local level or at a county level or tho I highly doubt it, at the state level, I will do everything in my power to do so. "All consumable non-spoiled food must be redistributed first to staff members, and then to the local community. Failure to do so will result in steep fines and other penalties as necessary." Simple, isn't it? Isn't it a little insane that this ISN'T the current policy? Don't you think this should be the STANDARD way of doing things? Intentional and avoidable food waste is one of the biggest causes of food poverty in this country and around the world.
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@M0butu there is SO much poverty and unnecessary lack here, If you come from a poor country you would not be able to believe it. There is SO much wealth here and so much abundance and yet I don't even want to THINK how much gets intentionally wasted every DAY. It is disgusting because there's NO excuse to have tangible poverty (not to mention financial poverty) in a country like the United fucking States!!!
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@M0butu That's it all right.
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