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Turns out one of their main freezers malfunctioned overnight and the management had no choice but to discard thousands of dollars worth of items which were at various stages of thawing, but were still cold and partially frozen. Somehow the word got around in the community and people descended in droves to salvage what they could and get it into their own freezers and refrigerators.
All of which brings up the question of what could be done to avoid having all of this go into the landfill, and in ways that would be both safe and a blessing to people in need--and to the environment.
As it is, the management of supermarkets like Food Lion feel prevented from offering food like this at a reduced price or even free to worthy recipients. I spoke with one of their managers yesterday about whether a non-profit facility like Gemeinschaft Home could be given opportunity to receive some of this windfall, and the only answer she could give, quite understandably, was that they could not risk any liability should their food cause an illness.
Question: Shouldn't there be some organization that could inspect food of this kind and be a channel through which it could be safely shared?
What do you think?
3 comments:
...we have Foodlink here that would have responded to this situation.
Good to hear. Something we need here in this area.
at ocp we used to pick up huge a carload of food - boxes of pastries, meats etc. behind costco on scheduled days. it was wonderful and we could put them in the freezer at ocp. has something like this been set up at other stores?
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