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RE: Sustainable Community Uses Freedom to Feed the Homeless

in #food8 years ago

I am so happy to be following you guys! We need more people like you. My family operates a restaurant in NY and for years we would take food to less-fortunate neighborhoods (especially in the summer when a lot of the kids weren't getting regular meals since school lunch was the only one they could count on.) New York State stopped it because it was a "health code violation" - even though we've been a licensed caterer for decades! (Just celebrated 30 years).
I just don't understand why helping people is considered "bad" - especially when it comes to feeding them. It drives me crazy thinking how much food waste there is because of government restrictions. GRRRRR

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Thank you, it's great to hear we're inspiring you! You have seen firsthand the arbitrary nature of these ridicullous restrictions. We find it appalling that anyone would seek to limit compassionate acts, and that is why we don't comply with them. It's absurd to think that we "can't" hand our brothers and sisters a sandwich when we have food and they are hungry based on man's law. Not to mention how much food is thrown out of stores on a daily basis because of "policy". We do not go along with dishonorable systems!