Anonymous #1 1d

Those don’t typically protect them if they’re knowingly donating food that doesn’t meet food safety requirements though, which is more often the case. And it probably shouldn’t, don’t you think?

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Anonymous OP 1d

yes if we’re talking about spoiled or contaminated food. imperfect food that don’t sell well are allowed tho

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Anonymous #1 1d

True, but a lot of that stuff gets filtered out before it gets to a grocery store. So like it’d be fairly easy for a grocery store in a residential area to drop that stuff off at a food bank when they get it, but the majority of the time you’re talking about someone having to ship trucks of malformed carrots to like who knows where out of their own goodwill. And a typical food bank can’t handle that kind of shipment. You’d have to change the incentives somewhere to get people to participate

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Anonymous OP 1d

i think it depends on the producer. if it’s a giant company then i think i think they can take the hit and use it as a tax write off. otherwise i think more robust community networks could be beneficial (ie multiple local people or people from various food banks distributing it) i thin ur right that its not straight forward (in our current system at least) but still a problem worth addressing

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Anonymous #1 1d

think*

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