Several supermarkets lost power for a time during severe winter weather over the past week. After photos began circulating Tuesday, people gathered at a local Fred Meyer store to pick through hundreds of packages of meat, dairy and other perishable products.
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"And in unrelated news, Portland emergency rooms are reporting an inexplicable surge in food poisoning cases..."
ReplyDeleteThis is a sad commentary on our society. I'm sure that the FDA had our best interests in mind when it wrote its rules, but to throw away food that could be perfectly healthy is a fucking crime against reason. To use the police to enforce the destruction of perfactly edible (because that's the only thing that matters when you're hungry) food should be punishable by death by starvation.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in college, I stopped at the day-old-bread-store on the way home at least 3 times a week because 1) i knew the prices were less than retail and 2) I knew better than to buy items that had visible mold and 3) i wasn't rich.
I can actually understand salvaging edible food under certain circumstances. Hell, when I was in Army OCS I would go through the trash bag after lunch when we were in the field, and grab unopened packages from MRE's and eat them a little later. Yes, there wasn't enough food in a typical MRE for me under those conditions! But from the article the people involved were "community activists" that were grabbing food for people too lazy to do it themselves.
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