re: #182 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

We don’t need fruit trees, we throw away more than enough food - and that year-round - to feed the needy, we just have to develop means to get to those people. Instead we prosecute people for distributing food contributions.

Well, to be fair, there does need to be at least SOME control. Not prohibiting people feeding the homeless, but preventing poisoning them.

My late brother-in-law worked with ‘Food Not Bombs’, who would cook food at home and give it to the homeless. At least some of their supplies were obtained by dumpster diving. Plus, in the restaurant business there are a lot of inspections and procedures put in place to protect people from contaminated food.

People who cook a big pot of soup and ladel it out on the street? Not so much. And some forms of food poisoning can be deadly, especially for somebody in ill health.