Kansas City Forces Charity To Bleach Food For 3,000 Homeless
Is there any other word to describe this besides evil?
Kansas City, MO — Every year, for the last five years, volunteers with Kookers Kare – a group of barbecue chefs with hearts as big as their stomachs – have worked together to feed thousands of hungry homeless people. However, this year, 3,000 homeless people expecting that food, were denied it, thanks to the cold and callous hand of the state.
How do creatures like this manage to look at themselves in the mirror in the morning?
According to ABC 7, this year, that ‘magnificent barbecue spread’ was more than 3,000 pounds of meat and 1,200 pounds of sides. All that food is then distributed to ministries with food kitchens like Hope City on Kansas City’s East Side.
In Texas a few good people are standing their ground:
Last December, the Dallas, Texas city council enacted Ordinance No. 29595, which makes it illegal to serve food to the homeless without jumping through a statist myriad of bureaucratic hoops, including a fee, training classes, and written notices.
However, the folks over at the aptly named organization Don’t Comply, took to the streets just outside the Austin Street Shelter in Dallas, while well armed, and successfully fed thousands of homeless people.
Story here: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/3000-homeless-people-denied-food-dumpster/
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It is good to see that actual
It is good to see that actual people look to help out and take care of the poor in spite of the elitist laws that try to punish said poor. Fuck the Rich, they are the worst parasites on the planet, not the poor that they help make by sucking everything that they can in a Greed infused frenzy of over gluttony of money and resources.
I admit, some wealthy are okay folks and they do try and help, but the majority of the wealthy have shown that those are the rare odd ones out amongst the ultra-haves.
So long, and thanks for all the fish
Interesting that these
modern day "soup kitchens" are being "criminalized." We don't want to give the impression we have returned to the scenes of the '30's. After all, this IS the 21st century!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
How about soup kitchenizing a criminal?
Fun fact (fun from a safe distance, anyway): In Chicago, Al Capone opened one of the first Depression era soup kitchens in the US and stopped by periodically.
The verse from This Land is Your Land they never sing in school
In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?
" In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move. -- Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy "
Try to find the movie Farmageddon. I think it might be on netfi
This sort of outrage by out of control apparatchiks has been going on for the last decade at least. An organic farmer in Nevada forced to toss out an entire meal prepared for the annual gathering of her CSA members being just one example.
You can't rely on nice to deal with these heartless little tin gods(LTGs). You can't appeal to the fact that you are in compliance with all relevant laws. The LTGs don't care about laws; they care about their own vanity, privileges and perks. Since most of the LTGs are jealous incompetents, the fact of you being a good person who does good work only further enrages them.
Demand to see warrants.
Demand to see ID of each participant of the raid. Take down names AND ID numbers. Demand that any civilians accompanying the peace officers or LTGs be identified by name, address AND affiliation. If your event is being held on private property, anyone who inserts themselves without a search warrant or invitation from the property owner can be charged with trespass, and if they are so charged, should you decide to go that route, their name DOES become public.
Record every part of the raid. From multiple phones, cameras or what have you. Get that recording out on the internet ASAP, if possible while it is happening. In more than one city, when the LTGs tried to shut down people's gardens, the city officials were inundated with angry emails from all over North America, and had to back down.
Some folks have managed to fight back against these outrages, but, yes, you have to be not nice, not start a riot, but not nice either. Yes you have to get personal, which is about the only thing that can get through the wall of self-satisfied stupidity. You have to make it clear that the officials' name and paygrade WILL be made public.
Demand to be quoted the law or ordnance which says you have to, for example, throw away a ton of good food. Ask if they have a court order, and photograph it if they do.
Mary Bennett
It looks like a libertarian blog demonizing attemps
to make sure the food served the homeless as healthy food, like how they demonize health inspectors at meat packing plants as raising the cost of meat. Charities are patronized by private businesses and are not at all liberal.
Ir's been reported here and there since May
The Health Department's side of the story (if you want to believe it):
But if it was not fit to serve to "the public", then WHY was it OK to serve to the patrons of the World Series of Barbecue? They're not "the public"? They're somehow exempt from the "food-borne illnesses" that the Health Department is "protecting" the homeless and starving from?
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
illegal to feed people in a nation of hunger
what more do good people need to see before they join the ranks of protesters?
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
You can only leave food at room temperature for so long before
it becomes unsafe to eat. Feeding someone direct from the grill is fine. Letting that food travel all over the city before it is served may not be, depending on how long it stayed at room temp. If the serving agencies didn't know how or for how long it was transported, I can see why the health department shut it down. It doesn't do any good to trade hunger for food poisoning.
It doesn't sound to me like this was an anti-feed-the-homeless thing. It sounds like it was an anti-poison-the-homeless thing.
They should work with the health department to make sure they can satisfy their inspectors. It shouldn't be that difficult to prepare for next time. Know how long food has been sitting at room temp, refrigerate it as quickly as possible, and make sure everyone who might be involved with the health department is able to tell them how long the food has been at room temp and where it came from, with documentation as appropriate. A little communication may go a long way.
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Sounds like the Health Dept were being uptioght assholes
for the sake of being mean cruel assholes. Reasonable concerns (storage, transportation, etc.) were interspersed with totally bizarre comments ("uninspected", "what if someone did their own slaughtering", yada yada yada).
I suppose they could always just cancel the barbecue event - and if the Health Dept continues to be so assholish, they may have to.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
I didn't see the bizarre comments, but will take your word for
it I missed those. You're right, those are unnecessary if they already approved the barbecue. The only issues should be the transport and storage between the approved barbecue place and the places where they serve the homeless, and making sure everyone has their food handling certificates.
I hope they can get it worked out. If they do what they need to for food safety and the health department still won't okay it, they should escalate up the chain of command, and if that doesn't work maybe they can get a restraining order against the health department.
Around here, health departments are the good guys, providing services to all manner of poor people. I worked for one at one point. They'd be extremely unlikely economic storm troopers. They have all manner of public health tasks, including enforcing environmental regulations on big corps and providing free medical and preventive healthcare. I can't imagine they're that different in different locations, so I suspect one or a small group of a$$hole$ that the overall organization needs to know about.
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