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Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker

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Re: Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker

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Post by adrianN »

anthonypasq wrote: post #128
NovemberWhiskey wrote: post #69

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Uh no. One of the primary reasons why kosher is more expensive and logistically difficult than some other dietary requirements are the requirements for separation of kitchen space, rules around treatment of utensils and so on.

no one making vegetarian food is going to use utensils that have touched meat. So I dont see how vegetarian food could not be kosher. Am i missing something?

I recently learned that insects are not kosher, so some Jews don't consider figs to be kosher because of the fig wasps. There are probably more examples.

Re: Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker

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Post by Zenst »

kingkawn wrote: post #106
Zenst wrote: post #19

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Yet they singled out one religious dietary requirements whilst ignoring a whole demographic with a large populus and history of the area - colour me perplexed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews_in_New_York_City Still, thank you for replying instead of blind downvote because antisemitisim has many forms it seems, even here :( [EDIT ADD] WOW this comment has gone up and down like crazy - was +4 few mins ago, now -2 (a…

Your comment is condemning the logistical choice while ignoring that there are many different kosher authorities and no one would satisfyingly serve the entire nyc religious Jewish community

It was a valid observation based on the data at hand, but let's leave it at that.

Thank you for taking the time to reply.

Re: Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker

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Post by Zenst »

jshevek wrote: post #113
Zenst wrote: post #19

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Yet they singled out one religious dietary requirements whilst ignoring a whole demographic with a large populus and history of the area - colour me perplexed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews_in_New_York_City Still, thank you for replying instead of blind downvote because antisemitisim has many forms it seems, even here :( [EDIT ADD] WOW this comment has gone up and down like crazy - was +4 few mins ago, now -2 (a…

> replying instead of blind downvote because antisemitisim has many forms it seems, even here :( [It damages the conversation when people assume] racism when there is no evidence of racism.

I wasn't assuming, just going by the data and evidence at hand and let's leave it at that. I'm off for a walk, not sure I'm comming back either.

Re: Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

adrianN wrote: post #161
anthonypasq wrote: post #128

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no one making vegetarian food is going to use utensils that have touched meat. So I dont see how vegetarian food could not be kosher. Am i missing something?

I recently learned that insects are not kosher, so some Jews don't consider figs to be kosher because of the fig wasps. There are probably more examples.

I wonder about honey then? Its the product of non-Kosher insects

Re: Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker

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Post by gruez »

Melting_Harps wrote: post #107
vsareto wrote: post #70

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Feeding people will always be a matter of profit: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-dairy-...

> Feeding people will always be a matter of profit: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-dairy-... . I agree, sadly; I have actually been focused on mitigating the losses inherit in the Supply Chain itself, as on a solely Calorie basis we could easily feed the entire population, and is for the most part already at a post-scarcity level despite all the turmoil with Factory Farming and especially State…

>[...] Dairy Farmers being asked to dump milk to maintain prices via artificial scarcity

That's not the impression I got from the article. They're dumping milk because the supply chain can't transport any more milk, not because of cartel-like behavior to jack up prices like you suggest.

>the milk supply chain has seen a host of disruptions that are preventing dairy farmers from getting their products to market. [...] Trucking companies that haul dairy products are scrambling to get enough drivers as some who fear the virus have stopped working.

Re: Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker

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Post by jshevek »

Zenst wrote: post #156
jshevek wrote: post #127

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If you disagree with the parent, you could courteously exert the small effort to explain why directly and briefly.

I wasn't agreeing or disagree and that was a presumption all of your own.

Presumptions are not prefaced by "if", hypotheticals are.

Re: Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker

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Post by jniedrauer »

umvi wrote: post #149
gshdg wrote: post #121

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Obesity in this country is closely linked to poverty. The foods that people in poverty have access to (because of cost but also because of food deserts) offer excessive calories but poorly balanced nutrition. That means that people are obese but at the same time essentially starving to death from lack of nutrients. Which causes more food cravings that people are able to attempt to satiate only with more food with poo…

I think obesity dis-proportionally affects impoverished African Americans vs. other impoverished races. At least based on one point of anecdata - my neighbors. I have lots of poor families in my neighborhood even though I am middle class myself thanks to HOC (a Maryland social program where middle class housing is subsidized for the poor). Long story short - my poor African American neighbors are extremely obese; and…

There is definitely a genetic component. A very clear example is the obesity rate of Pacific islanders after they were introduced to the western diet. They were genetically isolated while subsisting on a very specific diet for thousands of years. As a result, they no longer thrive on the same diet that Europeans do.

Re: Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker

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Post by mysterydip »

pjc50 wrote: post #153
jsonne wrote: post #92

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As of 2018 40 million Americans received more than 57 billion dollars in SNAP. It seems like largely the US has been and will continue to keep people fed. Note also that this is just 1 Federal program and doesn't mention the multitude of other state level and city level programs that exist as well as private charities, religious organizations, etc. Please note I am not saying the system is perfect, shouldn't be expan…

> 40 million Americans received more than 57 billion dollars in SNAP. 57bn / 40m = $1425 $1425 / 365 = $3.90 While that's doable, it's really not a lot.

What's enough? We have a grocery budget of $500 a month for a family of 5. That's $3.30 per person per day.

Re: Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker

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Post by johnchristopher »

tren-hard wrote: post #18

One of those things I wish could out last this virus. We'd be so much better off as a society if we could at least keep our people fed. The comments in here seem a little negative currently but this is great news. Think of all the people in NYC who didn't have access to clean and regular food before the virus.

Maybe we can make it out of this mess better than how we were when we got in it.
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