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Looking for help with a charity.
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The supermarket I work at throws away SO MUCH shit it's disgusting.  I mean this food has just hit its expiration date and it's still probably delicious.  For instance, I was at the compactor today throwing away bakery's trash, and all of the bread was still unopened, still soft...The pies and cakes definitely still looked edible, and half of the salad mixes I threw away were brand new.  We throw away SO much more than that on a daily basis and I really got to thinking.

I know the company chucks it so they can claim credit for it all and that's pretty much the only reason they're so quick to throw it out.  They're saving money on new product, sure, but they're being entirely too wasteful.  I'd like to get in contact with some organization that could maybe take this food to a more productive place than the dumpster.  I know a lot of people need this food and it's senselessly being wasted by the masses.  If anyone knows of anyone that maybe sends trucks out to pick this up I'm sure I could talk the bossman into donating the decent product.  I have no experience with donations or charities, but you gotta start somewhere...right?  :confused:

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Re: Looking for help with a charity. [Re: Newbie]
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Thats crazy that they dont use that stuff where are you. Are you out in the sticks somewhere?

I volunteer for the Hunger Task Force here, and we have a truck that goes around to all the grocery stores in the early mornings. We have an agreement with the store that they put aside all the stuff they would normally throw out. Bakery, veggies, expried goods, etc. We pick it all up and take it back to the main building, where its either processed for immediate use (Soup Kitchen), or if possible is stored for later use.

You should definately get in touch with the local hunger organizations in your city and see if you cant get something like this going. I thought they did it everywhere...


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After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action.  If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it.  - Ernest Hemingway

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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.  - Aeschylus

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Re: Looking for help with a charity. [Re: Newbie]
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good for you man :thumbup:
I also work where there is a lot of waste, a vending, coffee service.
But this stuff shouldnt be forced on anyone. It just goes in the
dumpster.

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Re: Looking for help with a charity. [Re: Madtowntripper]
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I'm in the burbs of Philly, the area's really starting to pick up so I guess I might have some luck finding a place.  It wouldn't be hard at all if agreed.  I mean the place is practically a warehouse, so trucks could easily dock right into the area where we chuck all of the food.  I'll have to do some research I guess.  :sip:

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Re: Looking for help with a charity. [Re: Newbie]
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all the grocery stores around here suck, they have huge fenced in compactors.

back where i used to live we'd find GREAT stuff.

like several garbage bags of candy after halloween. and a couple trashbags of various goldfish crackers and cookies.


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Re: Looking for help with a charity. [Re: truekimbo2]
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I'm talking doughnuts, pastries, cookies, cake, pie, bread, muffins, cereal, TONS of fruit that's just barely bruised, all still cold from refrigeration.  If I wasn't on a diet I'd be having a field day!  Even the days I do the salad bar I find too much stuff that can still be eaten.  It's in constant refrigeration but only goes out for 2 days, then it's tossed.  It still smells, looks, and tastes new for up to 5 days even.  Chicken salad, tuna salad, bangin' pasta salads, cut fruit, Caesar salad. 

I'd have no problem puttin an extra hour or so in each day just to set aside the good stuff for shipping out.  I'll keep everyone posted on progress. :thumbup:

Edited by Newbie (08/02/06 06:57 PM)

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Re: Looking for help with a charity. [Re: Newbie]
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yeah i was working at United Dairy Farmers until a couple days ago and they did the same thing.. tons of food just gets wasted.. stuff i would even eat (not that im better than homeless people but yeah).. its terrible.. and if they catch u taking something out of the trash.. its theft.. people get fired for taking expired milk, juices, sandwichs, ect...

its amazing how much we care about iraq and their people and we have millions of our own on welfare and starving.. its sickning


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Re: Looking for help with a charity. [Re: Banez]
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its called liability.

if on the off chance, someone consumes food that sold past the FDA terms of expired and becomes ill as a result, well, then they are in for some costly fines and bad PR.

not that i totally agree with the above mentioned policies that some of you posted about, but i can see where they are coming from.


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Re: Looking for help with a charity. [Re: Banez]
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Yeah that's what gets me too.  You'd think a perk to working at a store like that would be taking home discounted food or even just lifting the expired stuff.  Nope.  You'll get fired lol.  I dunno, I wouldn't feel bad about taking expired stuff.  It's going in the trash.  I'm eating it and ultimately putting it into the toilet.  Same thing right? :lol:

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Re: Looking for help with a charity. [Re: Schwip]
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yeah i agree.. it would be a huge lawsuit.. however if u force people to sign something.. i sure homeless people and hungrary people would take the slight risk


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Re: Looking for help with a charity. [Re: Newbie]
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Expiration dates are a way of covering the manufacturers' asses. It's set weeks, sometimes months in advance as insurance on their part that the consumer can't sue for unsafe product.

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Re: Looking for help with a charity. [Re: Newbie]
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http://www.foodnotbombs.net/


I dont know the specifics, but activities like this are covered under the Good Samaritan Act, so you cant get sued for food poisoning.

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