Starvation in modern civilization is deliberately engineered.
modern civilization
No such thing, and Marxists are also against the concept of "modern slavery"
throw a brick through your local dunkin donuts
order things, then once they're all bagged up, walk out instead of finishing the transaction
tell employees they need to unionize
Can you imagine they try and rip the bag from you as you leave and you’re sitting there struggling over a bag of donuts with a dunkin employee then you leave give it to the person sitting outside and they try and take from him. Ahhh America
yeah. this is why you just fuck with them. throw bricks through windows. do bullshit transactions that never quite complete-or, hell, steal donuts if you're down to crime in the literal pettiest way imaginable; stealing fifty cent spite donuts.
Is this related to that 'if we give food to homeless they're legally liable for any sicknesses?' or is that now a misnomer?
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
Yeah I think that's been debunked, something like as long as you were doing it with goodwill it's fine or something like that.
Besides this is a decision of the state. In Germany you can give away food and are not liable (as long as it isn't meat or such which isn't good to eat, and as long as for milk produce the chain of keeping it cold wasn't broken). Still containering is illegal and it is legal to destroy your food at the end of the day.
In France it is now mandatory (as far as I read up on it) to give away good food at the end of the day - and you are not liable within similar patterns as the ones mentioned above.
That said, most Dunkin products are easily able to be eaten later. Esp. if it is the same day.
The reason many pastries and bread are overproduced by a ratio of 1-2x what is sold is that humans don't like buying food off empty shelves.
When I worked as a pastry chef's apprentice we would bin about equal bread, muffins, croissants to what we sold every day. When we made just what was theoretically needed we would only sell about 60-70% of normal. Trust me, the owner tried everything before that place became a Starbucks.
This sounds true and reasonable but is also incredibly perverse at the same time.
Stores experiment with that too. The depth on shelves for speciality items is usually less than other aisles.
Folks still buy more fresh goods though when there is a lot of them. No one is angling to buy the last head of lettuce.
Besides - as if corps/capitalism would care about sick unhoused comrades.
that is the trope, but really the people who would accept food in this fashion do not have the means to fight a huge company in court if a day old donut made them sick. The day old donut is still "private property" even though its been thrown away and no company ever is going to set any kind of precedent that would eventually realizes as "food shouldnt be for profit"
http://media.law.uark.edu/arklawnotes/2013/08/08/the-legal-guide-to-the-bill-emerson-good-samaritan-food-donation-act/ here's the law that prevents them from being liable. But more importantly they were planning on selling that food so wtf?
"The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."
In Soviet Russia Stalin would not give food to people which shows communism is evil failed system! Checkmate liberals!
Stalin would not give food to people
Kulaks would have efficiently distributed products at a time of crisis and totally not price gouged or forced people into prostitution rape culture
yeah I saw his original tiktok a couple days ago where they had to throw out hundreds of donuts a day
All non-24 -hour dunkins do this, it's great to pop over and fish out the separate bag they toss all the donuts into from the dumpster if you time it right.
I've shared some donut hauls with many people.
And by it's great, I mean they should be mandated by law to donate all donuts they would throw out to a shelter.
Companies just hate the homeless. While working as a nurse I interacted with a fair number of homeless people, I live in the northeast and in a small city so they're not as numerous as in California, but there's a sizable population still. I don't want to say that they as a group received worse care and were treated worse on average because I have a sample size of like 8 homeless out of probably 400+ patients, but only a few times did I come home from work and just broke down crying. The day I watched someone die was one, the day one of the low level employees was unable to walk and was sent home because the hospital wanted the bed open, and the day I had to discharge a homeless person to the street.
For additional context, my unit had a few long term patients, mainly when you can't find somewhere for them to be discharged to. We had a man there for around 5 months who was still hospitalized by the time I was fired and another for 3 months by the time I was fired. No facility would accept them and they had no family that would take them. This homeless person was also in a similar situation where there were no open shelters and no hotel rooms available for him to be sent to. He didn't want to go to a shelter because he was afraid of violence. Despite my fighting to keep him in the hospital until there could at least be a roof where he could be offered, they just wanted the bed open so they pushed and pushed until I was basically told that I can't do anything else and if I did anymore I'd be disciplined which meant fired because months before I had been given a final warning during the probationary period because I was a new nurse and messed up charting so any further discipline was going to mean termination.
Also the amount of medicine that we throw away in the hospital is unreal. Advair disks have like a month's supply in them and we'd use them for like 3 days while they're in the hospital and then have to throw them away because obviously you can't reuse it, but a lot of the time the person would be prescribed the disk on discharge anyway so they'd have to go and buy it. Unlike food as well, handing the person that disk that they were using in the hospital would legally be considered dispensing medication which is outside the bounds of nursing practice thus you could easily be fired and lose your license if people found out. Sometimes though you'd forget it in the room and not find it when you cleaned up or somehow it found its way into the person's luggage along with other things. Like we'd be told explicitly to give someone materials for wound treatment sometimes otherwise it was not acceptable to give them anything like that. Not that it didn't stop a number of nurses from giving people some stuff that'd be considered super expensive otherwise like specialty dressings. The hospital also doesn't itemize stuff like that so I could use 4 bandage wraps on one person's paper cut and if I only put down what dressing I applied they'd only charge the one with the wound treatment.
