supermarket in us throw away food eveyday that can feed millions
It opens one up to liability to donate past-date food, even though past-date food is perfectly edible. Change the laws around food donations and you will see quite a bit more of it. Governments could even buy the past-date food and many places would be happy to sell it for very cheap.
This isn’t true and is a stubborn myth with absolutely no underlying evidence.
Liability protections for food donors and non-profit recipients exist so long as the food donated is in compliance of federal food safety and labeling rules and is donated in good faith without gross negligence.
Some states call them food donation laws, other states call them Samaritan protection laws, but laws exist at both the federal and state level to protect people who are donating food.
They don’t donate food because they don’t want to. They don’t want to because they are monsters.
People have literally been arrested for donating perfectly good food. These people were arrested too. I’m sure the people put in jail would heavily disagree with the idea ‘it’s just a myth’.
The specific cases you mentioned are for food services not donations.
Donating food is protected by law. Serving food in public is not.
For what it’s worth I don’t think that these arrests were made in good faith either, but no grocery stores, restaurants, or food distributors have been arrested for donating surplus food.
It opens one up to liability to donate past-date food, even though past-date food is perfectly edible. Change the laws around food donations and you will see quite a bit more of it. Governments could even buy the past-date food and many places would be happy to sell it for very cheap.
This isn’t true and is a stubborn myth with absolutely no underlying evidence.
Liability protections for food donors and non-profit recipients exist so long as the food donated is in compliance of federal food safety and labeling rules and is donated in good faith without gross negligence.
Some states call them food donation laws, other states call them Samaritan protection laws, but laws exist at both the federal and state level to protect people who are donating food.
They don’t donate food because they don’t want to. They don’t want to because they are monsters.
People have literally been arrested for donating perfectly good food. These people were arrested too. I’m sure the people put in jail would heavily disagree with the idea ‘it’s just a myth’.
Edit: For good measure, here is another group in another location arrested for donating food.
The specific cases you mentioned are for food services not donations.
Donating food is protected by law. Serving food in public is not.
For what it’s worth I don’t think that these arrests were made in good faith either, but no grocery stores, restaurants, or food distributors have been arrested for donating surplus food.