Ta, Dok. Access to clean, potable water, food, and shelter should all be basic human rights. That they are not says really ugly things about our humanity.
Here in NYC, there are trucks that pick up unsold produce from the Greenmarkets and bring it to the food banks. There's also a way for restaurants to contribute unsold meals.
All these efforts are great and I totally don’t want to seem like I’m ragging on them but the plain fact is they cannot replace the volume of food that comes in from farm subsidies to programs like this. Obviously, since they were supplementing those programs! This is a massive loss to the hungry and to farmers. I mean massive. The screaming will be epic as farm lobbyists, hired by big multinational companies because a lotta farms are big multinational companies, not Grandpa Kettle and his mule, shriek their heads right off at this. This is going to make for really batshit allies: nonprofits and churches allied with huge companies and hardcore MAGA voters pissed at the face eating leopards.
There’s a non-profit where I live that collects fresh groceries (even eggs!) from grocery stores. They’re either excess purchases, or items that are expiring that day. It isn’t a food bank in the conventional sense, because anyone can get the food. They also collect Caesar’s pizza, which throws out so much pizza because they have the basic ones ready for pick up all day.
Why don't the republicans just shoot us and put us out of our misery? I'm sure FAUX news and the rest of the right wing media could spin it so this is a good thing for their viewers. And they don't care what we liberals/progressives think anyway.
"How about nobody deserves to go hungry except the evil deceitful fuckers who are directly responsible for this?" see also: https://dalelyles.com/be-bes-initiative
"...the evil deceitful fuckers who are directly responsible for this"
That's a pretty looooong fuckin' list there, Doc. From the rank-and-file racist MAGA voter, to the red state legislatures who stacked the electoral deck, to the feckless media bastards and their absurd "both sides" sanewashing, to the numbskull Republican "representatives" and Senators and their transparently evil hand-waving, to the kiddie table that is the presidential cabinet, to the kowtowing Vichy billionaires, all the way to the lying imposter at the top, every last one of those fuckers have thoroughly earned the "evil deceitful fuckers who are directly responsible for this" label.
What they have NOT earned? The slightest modicum of respect. To be treated with dignity. Their obscene wealth. And if you ask me, their next meal.
chain supermarkets should be donating produce they deem 'unsellable' to the food banks - apples with a few spots won't hurt anyone, and its better than nothing
So many of them throw it right in the fucking trash. And they have a bunch of Byzantine rules about things like eggs, etc. and how long they can be unrefrigerated before they can't donate them.
It's bullshit. Europeans keep their eggs out on the counter and not refrigerated at all unless it's super hot.
Recently learned: American eggs are washed, removing necessary films or natural coatings that protect them at room temperature from bacteria that would eat into them. That is why all FDA-approved American eggs are refrigerated. This is not a standard in many European countries, where most eggs are farmed and sold locally, not shipped on trains for hundreds of miles.
If you want to help, and you have the time, VOLUNTEER at your local food bank, *particularly if they do food rescue*. That kind of work is super useful but also super labor-intensive, and the one exception to the "always donate cash" recommendation. Even if you make a generous cash donation, you're probably not going to donate enough to buy 500 punnets of strawberries—but you could probably sort through 700 punnets of strawberries pretty fast, toss all the moldy ones, and repackage the rest, giving families a ton of delicious fruit AND keeping loads of food out of landfills!
(But ideally wear a mask while you're at it. Food banks are generally run by retirement-age volunteers, and they don't need anyone else's viruses.)
In Ohio, which absolutely went for Trump and the feckless Bernie Moreno, hundreds of thousands of dollars in food meant for food banks is now sitting in trucks, and will absolutely sit there and rot. But hey, billionaires gonna get their tax cuts! The Democrats should have shut it all down instead of voting for the CR. Because Musk and the Republicans are doing that anyway.
I had my weekly shift at the community kitchen today, now I'm headed to work. I decided to volunteer there because I knew we would be facing a greater need as the days pass in this administration. We feed whomever comes in. There's also cold breakfast (bagels, breads, coffee & tea) and we give away sandwiches for people for later. You can get as many servings of food as you like while you're there.
People are asked when they arrive how old they are, and if you're a regular you don't have to answer over and over. We keep track of the number of meals served by counting the plates that go out, no names or anything else.
Everybody needs to eat.
If you can, go volunteer somewhere. And if you are hungry, go wherever you can to get a meal or some groceries. It is capitalism that divides us, do not let anyone tell you that anyone doesn't "deserve" food.
I will be absolutely delighted to feed any hungry MAGA child at any time.
Their parents are on their own. I hear there’s food in dumpsters much of the time.
America, where little Timmy's first memory will be lying in bed, hurting and miserable because he has barely eaten in three days.
Well, at least parents in the South can send their 15 year old children to work a twelve hour overnight shift without a meal break.
Ta, Dok. Access to clean, potable water, food, and shelter should all be basic human rights. That they are not says really ugly things about our humanity.
Here in NYC, there are trucks that pick up unsold produce from the Greenmarkets and bring it to the food banks. There's also a way for restaurants to contribute unsold meals.
All these efforts are great and I totally don’t want to seem like I’m ragging on them but the plain fact is they cannot replace the volume of food that comes in from farm subsidies to programs like this. Obviously, since they were supplementing those programs! This is a massive loss to the hungry and to farmers. I mean massive. The screaming will be epic as farm lobbyists, hired by big multinational companies because a lotta farms are big multinational companies, not Grandpa Kettle and his mule, shriek their heads right off at this. This is going to make for really batshit allies: nonprofits and churches allied with huge companies and hardcore MAGA voters pissed at the face eating leopards.
There’s a non-profit where I live that collects fresh groceries (even eggs!) from grocery stores. They’re either excess purchases, or items that are expiring that day. It isn’t a food bank in the conventional sense, because anyone can get the food. They also collect Caesar’s pizza, which throws out so much pizza because they have the basic ones ready for pick up all day.
Where I'm from, the cops wait outside Little Caesars after closing time to pick up free pizzas and harrass drunk people walking home. Grr.
This is horrible.
Hopefully some will realize there are differences between the two parties.
The dems should send foodbanks money and signs saying Less Food...brought to you by the current administration.
😡they want to starve us into submission
Why don't the republicans just shoot us and put us out of our misery? I'm sure FAUX news and the rest of the right wing media could spin it so this is a good thing for their viewers. And they don't care what we liberals/progressives think anyway.
"How about nobody deserves to go hungry except the evil deceitful fuckers who are directly responsible for this?" see also: https://dalelyles.com/be-bes-initiative
"...the evil deceitful fuckers who are directly responsible for this"
That's a pretty looooong fuckin' list there, Doc. From the rank-and-file racist MAGA voter, to the red state legislatures who stacked the electoral deck, to the feckless media bastards and their absurd "both sides" sanewashing, to the numbskull Republican "representatives" and Senators and their transparently evil hand-waving, to the kiddie table that is the presidential cabinet, to the kowtowing Vichy billionaires, all the way to the lying imposter at the top, every last one of those fuckers have thoroughly earned the "evil deceitful fuckers who are directly responsible for this" label.
What they have NOT earned? The slightest modicum of respect. To be treated with dignity. Their obscene wealth. And if you ask me, their next meal.
chain supermarkets should be donating produce they deem 'unsellable' to the food banks - apples with a few spots won't hurt anyone, and its better than nothing
Many do! Make some calls to your local markets/chains!
So many of them throw it right in the fucking trash. And they have a bunch of Byzantine rules about things like eggs, etc. and how long they can be unrefrigerated before they can't donate them.
It's bullshit. Europeans keep their eggs out on the counter and not refrigerated at all unless it's super hot.
Recently learned: American eggs are washed, removing necessary films or natural coatings that protect them at room temperature from bacteria that would eat into them. That is why all FDA-approved American eggs are refrigerated. This is not a standard in many European countries, where most eggs are farmed and sold locally, not shipped on trains for hundreds of miles.
If you want to help, and you have the time, VOLUNTEER at your local food bank, *particularly if they do food rescue*. That kind of work is super useful but also super labor-intensive, and the one exception to the "always donate cash" recommendation. Even if you make a generous cash donation, you're probably not going to donate enough to buy 500 punnets of strawberries—but you could probably sort through 700 punnets of strawberries pretty fast, toss all the moldy ones, and repackage the rest, giving families a ton of delicious fruit AND keeping loads of food out of landfills!
(But ideally wear a mask while you're at it. Food banks are generally run by retirement-age volunteers, and they don't need anyone else's viruses.)
In Ohio, which absolutely went for Trump and the feckless Bernie Moreno, hundreds of thousands of dollars in food meant for food banks is now sitting in trucks, and will absolutely sit there and rot. But hey, billionaires gonna get their tax cuts! The Democrats should have shut it all down instead of voting for the CR. Because Musk and the Republicans are doing that anyway.
I had my weekly shift at the community kitchen today, now I'm headed to work. I decided to volunteer there because I knew we would be facing a greater need as the days pass in this administration. We feed whomever comes in. There's also cold breakfast (bagels, breads, coffee & tea) and we give away sandwiches for people for later. You can get as many servings of food as you like while you're there.
People are asked when they arrive how old they are, and if you're a regular you don't have to answer over and over. We keep track of the number of meals served by counting the plates that go out, no names or anything else.
Everybody needs to eat.
If you can, go volunteer somewhere. And if you are hungry, go wherever you can to get a meal or some groceries. It is capitalism that divides us, do not let anyone tell you that anyone doesn't "deserve" food.
So, he's bankrupting his base?
Joseph Heller/Catch 22 reference was the hook. I got MY pizza kit! "Give everyone eat!"
I hate these fuckers. It's beyond unconscionable, starving people, it's criminal.