John Gonser wrote:
> If anybody thinks they have a solution to this I'll bet it starts with the
> elimination of bureaucratic control over the food supply. Not that we
> shouldn't have standards and inspections, but real hunger demands real food
> and not real obstruction. I personally have thrown into dumpsters great
> pans of freshly-prepared (by licensed caterers and restaurants) meats and
> vegetables because I couldn't get anybody to take them. I called every food
> kitchen in town and got "No" for an answer every time. Polite "No", but
> "No" just the same. I've also seen fields of high-quality vegetables
> rotting on the vine because the organizations that could use them just
> wouldn't come get them. I've hunted game birds in fields with the
> farmer/owner as my hunting partner and asked him why these tons of produce
> were just lying there in the sun. His reply was that he made an annual
> practice of offering his fields to gleaners and food kitchens after the main
> picking was complete, and had as yet had no takers. Amazing! Tons of food
> for free and nobody would take it!

So those people who were too busy to come pick the food were
bureaucrats? Maybe we need more bureaucrats so they won't all be so
overworked.

Jerry
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