 disenchantedcitizen says: This story is really about how individuals are doing something to help the needy. You cannot and should not expect the government to do it. They are more concerned with making money for their corporate brethren. Syd Mandelbaum started an organization, Rock and Wrap It Up, in 1990 by persuading rock bands to send their prepared, but unserved, backstage and concessions food to local charities and has succeeding in doing so after the performances of 160 bands. Since 2002, his group has added 31 sports teams — including the Yankees, the Mets, the Jets, the Giants, the Nets, the Knicks, the Rangers, and the Devils — and their concessionaires. Carl Thomas, a volunteer warehouse worker recovering from his own hard times, sums it up this way: “When I do this, it keeps rewarding me. It comes back to me at different times, tenfold.” “They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing” - - Hindu proverb. This is a wonderful thing, but I found that our favourite demographic of people, lawyers, are standing by to ruin programs like this. There is a moderately-priced buffet restaurant in the city where I live that changes over its fare from the lunchtime crowd, to a very different selection for the more expensive evening sittings. That means that many, many trays of perfectly good food were being removed to the kitchens, to never be served again. At one time, that restaurant packaged up that food, and donated it to the local Food Banks. Good show, right? Then, some numpty stored the food improperly after they received it and ended up getting a moderate case of food poisoning. In leaped the s... |
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