The Big Apple is throwing away fresh apples, lettuce, and fresh produce of all kinds, with the police standing by watching sanitation pick up the crates of fresh food from outside shops and toss them into the trash trucks.
With 60,096 homeless in New York City, why is perfectly edible food being thrown away, when the hungry should be fed?
Why is the food confiscated from benders and businesses and tossed? The food police… the insane, “fanatical code enforcement”, has put the NYCPD on improper produce patrol. The code says that if crates of food are more than four feet outside the store, it must be tossed.
That’s exactly what the cops should be cleaning up, right? Forget gangs, drugs, prostitution… focus on tossing out improperly placed food. Food that could help nourish the hungry and the homeless.
Check out the insanity on page two.
They should have given it to homeless and soup kitchens. ”If we can waste it, we will.”
nyc has a asshat mayor ruining the city
live by the rules of democrats or get your livelihood thrown out.
If there is a law against displaying on the sidewalk – just fine the storekeeper and leave the dang food alone!
why not give it to the homeless
Why can’t it be donated to a food pantry….this is dumb.
Frank Talan, I so agree with you, it is not the people, but the ones in charge.
You can thank the gov’t for this one.
Yeah, they laws that have been put in place that makes stuff like this happens. That is what stinks about this story.
That’s a crime with people starving ,homeless shelters, food kitchens could all use this supply of good food wasted .