Harriet Neal wrote:
>
> I work at a food distriution facility in SoCal. We were the
> recipients of the food collected at 10 post offices in the area. We had
> volunteers receiving the food as the mailmen came off the routes, separating
> it into barrels, canned goods, dry goods (cereal, etc) and odd sized going
> into boxes. The projection was 100,000 pounds from the 10 sites. I was at
> a site the collected 11,680 pounds from 75 routes. My agency gives food to
> low-income families in our area, serving 500 families on a weekly basis,
> (average family size 3.5).

How bigoted of you... what about hungry individuals... you think only
families are hungry?

Hmm, 100,000 pounds of food per 500 families comes to 200 pounds per
family or better than 50 pounds of food per person... that's an awful
lot of food on a weekly basis, unless you count the weight of beer.

I don't believe in food drives where raw food is distributed, I don't
believe that all that food goes to needy people. I believe that the
food is picked over with the good stuff culled out and kept by the
administrators. I'd much prefer to donate directly to a soup
kitchen... those who are hungry will come and they'll eat. But I don't
donate food to able bodied folks anyway, the able bodied can earn their
own, if they're too lazy to move their fat asses they deserve to
starve.

I make my food donations to animal shelters, those poor four legged
creatures can't feed themselves, they are totally dependent... and not
even one takes a bite more than it can eat... I don't donate to
creatures with pockets.

Sheldon (who has on more than one occasion seen with his own eyes how
food drives are totally dishonest - *thievery* is too mild an
expletive)