Food from Skips......

grahaml221

if you having big problems why not try one of the Charity's out there try trusselltrust. org

grahaml221

jigsaw1234 wrote: »

i think its disguting. i work in a shop and you can guarentee every morning before we got a lock on the bin someone had been in there and spread everything over the car park and taken what they want. so now i open every single packet and pour milk or coke over it so no one can take it.

Why dont they pass it on to someone like above instead of wasting it to keep prices up thats more disgusting

grahaml221

3v3 wrote: »

So, why wait to be arrested *before* you look to your ethical MP/make it high profile?

If you truly believe the waste is stupid, you could complain to your MP *without* compromising your integrity.

Or, is that simply a justification for your free-loading/illegal activity?

If you genuinely felt so strongly about the ethical issues involved, you wouldn't wait to be arrested to make your point If you wanted an excuse for law-breaking, you would use ethical "principles" to justify your actions: moral self-righteousness in the guise of ethical principles?

If you really want a change in the law, you don't have to be a hypocrite and break the law to make a change in the law.

The MPs had to

grahaml221

Nevermind supermarkets I off to PC World lol

jigsaw1234

grahaml221 wrote: »

Why dont they pass it on to someone like above instead of wasting it to keep prices up thats more disgusting

because if that person got ill by us handing them food then whos to blame us and they would be the first to take us to court to try and get a bit of money

Barbaraanne

Have a look at the best before project on facebook. http://www.facebook.com/www.bestbefore.org.uk
They might be able to let you know if there is a food project in your area.

From their FB page: Best Before Project has joined Project Dirt - please find us and become a member - thanks!

Good luck

ska_lover

jigsaw1234 wrote: »

because if that person got ill by us handing them food then whos to blame us and they would be the first to take us to court to try and get a bit of money

Booo! No one is suggesting handing it to them. Ruining it on purpose so a needy soul can not benefit, is just mean. Where is the season of goodwill, that you get more satisfaction from spoiling food, than leaving it to fill a hungry belly? Those kinds of foods could be a lifeline to a homeless person, the difference between survival and starving to death. Oh well, as long as you get your kicks, its all right...Urgh

I couldn't bring myself to behave in such an unethical way, even if it was ordered by my boss

ska_lover

I love the idea of recycling, food, furniture- everything. We are in a double dip recession at the moment. I understand some people are saying it is illegal, and that is understood, but to me and many others, wasting food just for the sake of it, is unethical - especially when so many people are in poverty at the moment.

I saw earlier in the thread, a member had said about leaving household bits outside of their house with a note to say 'please take me' - I do this. I have disposed of a large tv, left outside covered in plastic, and a note attached saying 'Free - knock the door for the remove' - ten minutes later a lovely couple knocked on and offered cash for it bless them. A pair of large dining room units were also given away like this. It saved me a back breaking tip to the rubbish dump and benefited someone else. Win win situation.

Barbaraanne

jigsaw1234, you should be ashamed of yourself

Ska lover, A BIG cheer :T

jenniewb

ska_lover wrote: »

I love the idea of recycling, food, furniture- everything. We are in a double dip recession at the moment. I understand some people are saying it is illegal, and that is understood, but to me and many others, wasting food just for the sake of it, is unethical - especially when so many people are in poverty at the moment.

I saw earlier in the thread, a member had said about leaving household bits outside of their house with a note to say 'please take me' - I do this. I have disposed of a large tv, left outside covered in plastic, and a note attached saying 'Free - knock the door for the remove' - ten minutes later a lovely couple knocked on and offered cash for it bless them. A pair of large dining room units were also given away like this. It saved me a back breaking tip to the rubbish dump and benefited someone else. Win win situation.

Some do this near where I live too- a TV is pretty excellent though (I relied on freecycle for mine) its more VHS and a random chair or coffee table but always makes me feel good when I see this (even if it does create an obsticle on the pavement!) its evidence that someone cares about the environment als potentially about wanting to help others.

RE: Supermarkets, I don't know why they don't just organise something better if they are so hard pushed to not give away bad food. Pret do this daily and its even used as a selling point (they give away all the food not eaten by the end of the day to the homeless, Benjys when they were still going also used to do this). I know there are worries over illness and so on but how hard would it be to arrange a sort of signed "I give up my rights to claim/sue if this food makes me ill" paper? That way everyone could be happy.

The worst I've seen was waiting in a very cold Tescos in a large-ish London store a few years back, a crate was pushed along (you know those 10 foot sized cages) and about 3-4 shelves of sandwiches with a regular price of between £3-£6 a go (delux handmade sandwiches not the Tesco normal range) and being told that they were being thrown away. By then it was 10pm and most of us had been waiting since 8pm for things to be reduced as they normally were. How hard would it have been to just say to the few of us there 'take what you want and go'? It was explained to us they were being thrown away and going to be incinerated, something about the way they were chucking the boxes around and throwing all sorts of end-dated foods ontop gave me reason to believe them.