surely there's protocols to get around 'what if people who could pay for donuts are eating the donuts instead of homeless'. Getting a food bank/charity volunteer to pick up the food- there's ways around this.
It's just assholes being protective over resources
https://www.feedingamerica.org/about-us/partners/become-a-product-partner/food-partners
It's only applicable to food donated to non profits, though.
But that narrative is still bullshit.
If excess wasn't destroyed, the value of the goods being sold would go down because their scarcity would go down.
surely there's protocols to get around 'what if people who could pay for donuts are eating the donuts instead of homeless'. Getting a food bank/charity volunteer to pick up the food- there's ways around this.
It's just assholes being protective over resources
America is famously not full of parasitic NGOs that exploit loopholes