NYC to Citizens: Don't Feed the Homeless
Midget Faded Rattlesnake ·
March 21, 2012 at 6:50pm
You are no longer allowed to donate home-cooked food to New York City's public soup kitchens and shelters. The DHS (Department of Homeless Services) has deemed such food unfit for homeless consumption because it cannot accurately evaluate its nutritional value.
Because making sure the homeless to get enough fiber and avoid too much salt is so much more important than feeding them in the first place or (heaven forfend!) allowing them to enjoy a good-tasting meal cooked with love.
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Apr '11
Re: NYC to Citizens: Don't Feed the Homeless
Clearly there's not enough pink slime in homeless shelters.
Aug '10
Re: NYC to Citizens: Don't Feed the Homeless
In unrelated news (well, except for the food part), New Zealand is currently suffering (or enjoying, depending on how you look at it) a Marmite shortage.
Edited on March 21, 2012 at 6:20pmAug '10
Re: NYC to Citizens: Don't Feed the Homeless
What are you talking about? I find pink slime incredibly appetizing.
Dec '11
Re: NYC to Citizens: Don't Feed the Homeless
Painfully obvious that donations dont create vendor profits.....
Sep '11
Re: NYC to Citizens: Don't Feed the Homeless
The story in the New York Post, which NRO quotes, may be leaping to conclusions. The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, through state departments of Ag, is pushing food safety regulation hard. And in particular, they're cracking down on home-cooked food. Ed Driscoll at PJ Media quoted Mark Steyn here:
I've been to a Pa. Dept. of Ag food safety training, and the inspector confirmed the story. He said it's national--not just Pennsylvania. And it isn't just fundraisers--they really want to shut down potlucks and church suppers, but typically cannot, because the law doesn't permit them to inspect/regulate sites that serve food less than 12 times per year.
Obamacare delenda est.
Aug '10
Re: NYC to Citizens: Don't Feed the Homeless
Midget Faded Rattlesnake
What are you talking about? I find pink slime incredibly appetizing. · 1 hour ago
From what I gather, the only problem with pink slime is that it has zero nutritional value. It's not toxic and it's not fattening. For all intents and purposes, it's inert.
So, if you buy a burger that contains pink slime you are, theoretically, being cheated out of the calories and fat that you damn well paid for.
In other words, I don't understand why the Left is so opposed to it when it's the Right that should be offended by this sneaky double-cross!
;-)
Aug '10
Re: NYC to Citizens: Don't Feed the Homeless
Well, if NYC's DHS is cracking down because it got orders from the state or US Dept of Ag, that's even worse.
Jun '10
Re: NYC to Citizens: Don't Feed the Homeless
This is just crazy. It's the government blocking citizens' freedom of religion. Feed the poor is pretty explicit.
Jul '11
Re: NYC to Citizens: Don't Feed the Homeless
"Aayyy ayyyy ayyy Booboo boy, we need more pic a nic baskets"
"There's too much sodium Yogi, and we have Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis"
Mar '11
Re: NYC to Citizens: Don't Feed the Homeless
Dear Homeless People,
You're Welcome.
Love,
Fat Suburban People
Aug '10
Re: NYC to Citizens: Don't Feed the Homeless
DocJay:
"There's too much sodium Yogi..."
You know, that is weird, considering that alcoholics and people who don't eat very often could probably do with more salt per meal than average.
I can just see the headlines now:
Edited on March 21, 2012 at 7:30pmHomeless man collapses from hyponatremia after being denied salt shaker to go with low-sodium fare.
Aug '10
Re: NYC to Citizens: Don't Feed the Homeless
Seems to be a lot of that is going 'round lately.
Dec '10
Re: NYC to Citizens: Don't Feed the Homeless
Midg,
The odds of the government providing superior food (in any way superior nutritionally or aesthetically) to privately prepared and donated food are so long that NASA was asked to put a super computer to the task of calculation.
There is Stupid and there is Hopeless Stupid. They just crossed the line.
Regards,
Jim
Jun '10
Re: NYC to Citizens: Don't Feed the Homeless
Next thing you know we'll be required to compost food garbage so the homeless will be protected from salts and preservatives as they rummage through dumpsters and trash cans.
Dec '10
Re: NYC to Citizens: Don't Feed the Homeless
I guess ordinary people feeding the homeless cuts into government numbers on homeless people helped/dollars spent.
Aug '10
Re: NYC to Citizens: Don't Feed the Homeless
You joke, but up here in Ottawa we already have compulsory "Green Bins" for city-wide compost collection.
Mar '11
Re: NYC to Citizens: Don't Feed the Homeless
They shut down the neighborhood free soup and bread dinners that my parents' church have been putting on for years. No heavy evangelizing -- just a chance to see the inside of the church and meet some of the people. Every once in a while, a new family would join.
Not any more. The soup was being prepared in peoples' kitchens and brought in to church. Clearly a menace to public health.
The government will be inspecting our kitchens next. Personally, I look forward to them surveying my refrigerator -- I think that jar in the back behind the beer used to contain olives, but I'm not sure any more.
Aug '10
Re: NYC to Citizens: Don't Feed the Homeless
James Gawron: Midge,
The odds of the government providing superior food (in any way superior nutritionally or aesthetically) to privately prepared and donated food are so long that NASA was asked to put a super computer to the task of calculation.
Definitely. Institutional food is almost always inferior and institutional food provided by the gov't is the worst.
Your typical school lunch program meal? Eeewww.... It's like they're not happy until they've cooked all the freshness and flavor out. I know there's a big campaign to change this, but still...
And what kind of crazy people try to put the homeless on a diet?
Overall, the poor are fat in this country, but I would imagine the homeless are most likely to be severely undernourished.
Mar '11
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Symptoms of a bloated bureaucratic class seeking to justify itself.
Jun '10
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One lady from our church took the challenge to stop feeling sorry for herself and started — with her mentally handicapped daughter — taking brown bag lunches to a local mission downtown. The idea caught on and our church is now taking 50 bags, 6 days a week to the mission.
No surprise, the city would have shut us down had we not gotten a license, inspections, and a rule book to follow. So much for our home baked cookies. Little Debbies taste just as good I guess.