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Originally posted by woodwardjnr
It's called capitalism, you will always have a surplus of the goods you produce, to give the goods away would be called socialism, which i know most people dont really like
Originally posted by Akkadian
Originally posted by woodwardjnr
It's called capitalism, you will always have a surplus of the goods you produce, to give the goods away would be called socialism, which i know most people dont really like
Agreed, people just don't understand!!!
Originally posted by JIMC5499
Food is an entirely different matter. There are too many laws prohibiting commercial establishments from donating left over food to local charities. I belong to an organization that holds dinners once a month to raise funds. We had about 20 pork chop dinners left over one time and took them across the parking lot to a church that has a shelter in it's basement. These dinners were freshly made and were only in their containers for about five minutes. The church told us that they were not allowed to accept them because of local health laws. The next day we had a spot inspection of our kitchen from the Health Department and were cited for not having a certified food handler in the kitchen for our dinners.
Originally posted by nixie_nox
Because they receive money from the loss or the recycled materials.
The problem is a society that wants so many items for so little money that a company uses practically slave labor to produce it in third world countries, that they have too much to sell and is more cost effective to throw away.
Originally posted by JohnPhoenix
After so many minutes McDonalds throws its unsold food away as well as other food chains. There is Nothing wrong with this food.
Hospitals make tons of food each day that go to the garbage because they don't sell it all.
There should be a law against this.
These places if they don't want to sell the food could store it in a refrigerator and give it to the homeless at the end of the day.
This is a Crime and Should be a Crime.
There is No Law that says these places cannot store the food and resell it at another time as long as it is kept fresh.
But the willful waste of good food is just not right.
I go to a restaurant that has a daily menu, but if you want something from the day before if they have leftovers, they will heat you some up for free. - no extra charge because this place is a buffet.
Originally posted by [davinci]
In the end, it is the weight of our bureaucracy collapsing upon us that creates these situations.