Isn't most catered food inedible by the time an event is over? If foot sit out for some number of hours (4?) then you have to trash it.
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
This page on their website answers that: http://www.foodrunners.org/donor-liability/ "Some food businesses hesitate to donate food out of fear that, should the recipient become ill from the food, the donor could be held responsible. In 1988, the California legislature passed the “Russell Bill” which releases the donor from liability."
Coooool... but there's still the moral question of "what happens when you donate food that makes someone sick?"
The bigger and vastly more common moral question is: what happens when you throw food out instead of donating it and someone goes hungry?
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#23Wish this could be done in the UK -- was giving a talk at a conference over here; hanging around back stage at the end of the night, it was quite disheartening to see that all the food trays (one of which hadn't even been started) were shovelled into black bags; the caterers said they weren't allowed to give the food to charity :(
Maybe because they would need to pay VAT?
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#24We started http://communityplates.org/ a few years ago to help with this issue. Our goal was to use volunteers + technology to help with the logistics for getting the excess food to the people that needed it. Proud to say we will rescue over 3M pounds of food this year from grocery stores, restaurants, farmers markets, etc.
We are in Fairfield County, CT, Albuquerque, NM and Columbus, OH, but looking to grow.
(By the way, if anyone is looking to donate some app development time to a good cause, we'll gladly take the help)
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#25Isn't most catered food inedible by the time an event is over? If foot sit out for some number of hours (4?) then you have to trash it.
There are some safety issues around temperatures, but typically you can only save what hasn't been served yet and this food is usually in a warming tray in the kitchen.
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#26Wish this could be done in the UK -- was giving a talk at a conference over here; hanging around back stage at the end of the night, it was quite disheartening to see that all the food trays (one of which hadn't even been started) were shovelled into black bags; the caterers said they weren't allowed to give the food to charity :(
> the caterers said they weren't allowed to give the food to charity
Smells like BS to me. Just an excuse to not have to do the logistics.
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#27Feeding the hungry without inquiring why they are hungry can enable self-destructive and anti-social behavior such as drug addiction. Do the food banks and homeless shelters in San Francisco help the homeless turn around their lives?
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#28Feeding the hungry without inquiring why they are hungry can enable self-destructive and anti-social behavior such as drug addiction. Do the food banks and homeless shelters in San Francisco help the homeless turn around their lives?
It's not just the homeless that are hungry. There are kids where the lunch they get in school is their primary source of food for the day. There are people working minimum wage jobs that have little money left over for food after they pay the rent, utilities, etc.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Coooool... but there's still the moral question of "what happens when you donate food that makes someone sick?"
You stay in bed for a couple days and be happy to receive donated food?
Pretty sure the people who are receiving free/donated food aren't the sort of people who can afford "stay in bed" for a few days, if they have a bed.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
You stay in bed for a couple days and be happy to receive donated food?
Pretty sure the people who are receiving free/donated food aren't the sort of people who can afford "stay in bed" for a few days, if they have a bed.
Well what else should they do? Not eat?