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http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03/19/bloomberg-s
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> trikes-again-nyc-bans-food-donations-to-the-homele
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> This is another one of these news stories that you
> can find on 10,000 right-wing blogs. It must have
> been highlighted on some conservative talk-show
> host's show in the last week or something because
> the original news story was reported by the local
> CBS affiliate back in March.
>
> The original story highlights the "salt intake"
> and the nutritional argument from the city about
> not taking food donations -- as if this is really
> a bad thing. Admittedly, Bloomberg is pushing some
> interesting policies in his city to say the
> least.
>
> On the other hand, I can really understand why the
> city wouldn't want donations. Its the same reason
> why the Red Cross doesn't want canned goods and
> other donations after a disaster -- its a matter
> of logistics.
>
> Food donations don't have any quality control. In
> addition, they don't have any quantity control. If
> you are going to run any sort of food preparation
> organization, whether retail or institutional, you
> have a certain number of resources -- labor, food
> prep space, storage space, dumpster space and the
> most important of all, time.
>
> If you have 400 people to feed on a daily basis
> and you have a paid staff of say 20 people to do
> it, what would you rather have? A kitchen that
> relies on random donations or a steady supply from
> a supplier that you contract with?
>
> If you are a kitchen with a staff of 20, would you
> like your food brought to you at random times
> during the day or at a set time every day? Would
> you like to be able to choose the quantity of food
> you receive? Would you like to be able to serve
> someone a balanced meal?
>
> Let's say that you have your kitchen and someone
> comes and dumps 600 bagels in it. Or maybe just
> 50.
>
> Or how about on Tuesdays you get 15 restaurants
> that donate food to you, but on Thursday you only
> get one local church that brings in canned goods.
>
>
> All of this doesn't even go into the quality of
> the food being donated. Three-day-old bread or
> bruised tomatoes or rotten meat in a kitchen is
> more of a nuisance than something that would be
> appreciated. If you've ever worked in a restaurant
> you know that the fight against cleanliness and
> spoilage is a constant battle.
>
> In people's minds they think that wasted food
> should be given to people who are hungry. This is
> what our mothers always told us -- that we should
> clean our plate because there are starving
> children in India. But this is a communist view of
> food distribution. The problem with communism was
> that it ignores the logic of an efficient
> distribution system.
>
> Remember when there was the hurricane and Obama
> and Christie were walking the Jersey Shore
> together? Meanwhile Romney is collecting canned
> goods and supplies and loading them up in a truck
> in Ohio? Do you realize what was wrong with
> Romney's response? It wasn't the generosity of the
> people (even though it was a set up because
> Romney's campaign bought $5,000 worth of
> supplies). It was because this kind of response is
> totally inefficient! You have random canned goods
> mixed in with blankets and baby diapers. Look at
> the number of volunteers it took to load each of
> those rented trucks. Think of what kind of effort
> that would be on the other end of the process.
> Think of what an awful way that is to ship the
> goods across country versus the modern methods of
> palletized shipping using forklifts and good
> packaging. Its a complete waste of time and
> effort.
>
> If you read all of the conservative blogs, there
> are hundreds of posts with righteous indignation
> that the government would "turn away food" or is
> snubbing religious donations. One person writes
> something and then 50 other people start ranting
> about the nanny state.
>
> Once again, you have conservatives using poor and
> underprivileged to bash government services.
>
> If religious organizations or a local charity
> wants to run a "soup kitchen" through handouts,
> that is fine. However if you want your tax money
> to be spent on providing a quality service, you
> should take a more managed approach. It is
> perfectly obvious to me that Bloomberg is making a
> good decision here and its a wonder why the city
> hadn't done it beforehand.
Holy Christ you talk a lot.
If Mussolini came to you and told you that Hitler was killing Jews.......would you discount him as a source? What is it with you and your ilk that you simply can't seem to accept a fact because of who told you that fact?
Further........do you believe in your heart that starving people on the street give a shit about salt and or how difficult it is to plan a soup kitchen?
Here's another "right winged blogger" for you to trash.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/11/nation/la-na-nn-homeless-feeding-bans-20120611