Supermarkets should be made to give away out-of-date food to soup kitchens and the like, with the conditional that they are not to be held legally responsible for any health consequences suffered by those so desperate that they are willing to take the risk.”Should be made”?What you want a law for this? So if I am running a restaurant I now, in addition to worrying about inventory and people showing up and payroll I have to also make sure my expired food is separated by edible and non edible (with no liability?) so it ends up in food kitchens? Where is the labor going to go to do this? And what about the lost jobs from the waste haulers that are being paid now to cart away that food? (Unintended consequences).Closest thing I can think of is somewhat mandatory recycling in the US. Makes a great newspaper story of course to rev up the masses.Other example this week was the AOL “distressed babies” internet backlash. I’m saying in a strict sense not what I would have done if I was the decision maker. Would you want someone slipping by your unlocked kitchen door to take food that was in your trashcan? So now we have a system where people just make up whatever rules they want and make decisions (vagrants no less by the way.)Added: Subject to of course the benefit to the public and any PR disaster that the company wanted to avoid. Police arrested the men as they left the area with a holdall and trolley containing food.So I’d like to know exactly why you think it’s ok for someone to tresspass like this. In the US scotus did say your trash in a trash can is fair game.Consequently if they had climbed over the wall to flee a person with a gun that would have been fine and they almost certainty wouldn’t have been charged.(So now I go and look up the story): …called the police to report three men scaling a wall at the back of Iceland in Kentish Town. Not having food doesn’t allow you to trespass on the property of others and take what they are going to throw out. This was not a case of imminent danger but of hunger. Don’t know that story but of course they should have been prosecuted.
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