"Caya" > wrote in message
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>> Our garbage...our food waste...would almost certainly be
>>enough to end world hunger.
>
> *snip*
>
> And who is going to pay the bill when some yahoo sues for $1.2
> million, because he ate a stale muffin and threw up? The amount of
> food that gets thown away from grocery stores and Warehouse grocery
> stores is obscene. They can't even give the food to foodbanks or
> homeless shelters, they have to throw it away. The reason they do it
> is because they could be sued out of existance by any idiot who ate
> some past-due food and decided he wanted to scam the system, and sue
> for a million or two.
>


Reminds me of a time several years ago when I was delivering 100LB bags of
flour to a commercial bakery in GA. 2 of the bags had developed small leaks
due to the stitching coming loose or from the corner of the bag rubbing
against the trailer wall. The bakery rejected the 2 bags but offered to
dispose of them for me. My company said to slice the bags open & empty them
into a dumpster. I called the local food bank & offered to bring them over,
nothing wrong with the flour. They said they would they would only take
undamaged bags with no leakage. I guess beggars can be choosers