As some of you may have picked up from my various rantings, I work for a frozen food distribution company. One of the duties that falls into my lap is disposal of unwanted goods.
Sometimes, the product can be sold to a salvage vendor. The majority of the time, that's not an option, due to dating or the vendor's preference.
My #1 avenue of removing this excess food from our warehouse is by donating it to food banks. This morning, I received several letters forwarded to me from a food bank I have sent product to several times this year. Here is a transcript of one of them:
I would like to say a word of thanks to the food companies of whom donates food to the needy families of Pike County, KY. I am a recently widow. My prescription medication costs me $756.00 a month I have a cap payment, rent plus car insurance, also utilities.
I depend on food donations just for my food. I receive $727.00 + $27.00 in Social Security and food stamps.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
XXXXX XXXXXXXXX
That was one of a dozen letters included in a packet containg a card sent by the food bank. All were photocopies of handwritten letters sent in by donation recipients.
Normal BS aside, I'd like to remind everyone that the 'Holiday Season' is rapidly approaching. There are plenty of genuinely needy people in our country. If you can give, please do. There are food banks across our nation that will gladly accept what you can give. And your time is a good donation, as well. Suicide rates skyrocket during the holidays. Help give someone hope.
If you're not sure about your liability, please refer to the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, P.L. 104-210. It provides a national standard of protection to individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations.
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WTG TStephens!
This is a "Nice post".
Leave it alone you turds!
Leave it alone you turds!
Beautiful post TS. I hope alot of people take the message to heart
edited for spelling
Edited, Tue Oct 19 08:57:24 2004 by deadsidedemon
edited for spelling
Edited, Tue Oct 19 08:57:24 2004 by deadsidedemon
Are there no poorhouses? No debtor prisons? Perhaps it would be a blessing if they died and cut down on the surplus population.
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To make a long story short, I don't take any responsibility for anything I post here. It's not news, it's not truth, it's not serious. It's parody. It's satire. It's bitter. It's angsty. Your mother's a *****. You like to jack off dogs. That's right, you heard me. You like to grab that dog by the bone and rub it like a ski pole. Your dad? Gay. Your priest? Straight. **** off and let me post. It's not true, it's all in good fun. Now go away.
To make a long story short, I don't take any responsibility for anything I post here. It's not news, it's not truth, it's not serious. It's parody. It's satire. It's bitter. It's angsty. Your mother's a *****. You like to jack off dogs. That's right, you heard me. You like to grab that dog by the bone and rub it like a ski pole. Your dad? Gay. Your priest? Straight. **** off and let me post. It's not true, it's all in good fun. Now go away.
Great job TStephens,
I also work with the Marines for toys for tots. This year my group has raised 4000 toys to give to children who other wise wouldn't have them. I always tell my friends to think before they whine, I've gone with out food, shelter, and I've been left out of more holidays than I can count as a child. It takes something away from you, something inside tends to break when your just 12 or 13, and you realize that you won't be celebrating Christmas with your friends because you have to work just so you'll have a roof to sleep under on Christmas. I ask you all to maybe not spend the 5 dollars on coffee and instead donate it to a charity or maybe take an hour or two out of your life and donate it to a shelter. I'm one of the few who made it out, and I go back all the time to donate my time and my money to help others.
Jade
I also work with the Marines for toys for tots. This year my group has raised 4000 toys to give to children who other wise wouldn't have them. I always tell my friends to think before they whine, I've gone with out food, shelter, and I've been left out of more holidays than I can count as a child. It takes something away from you, something inside tends to break when your just 12 or 13, and you realize that you won't be celebrating Christmas with your friends because you have to work just so you'll have a roof to sleep under on Christmas. I ask you all to maybe not spend the 5 dollars on coffee and instead donate it to a charity or maybe take an hour or two out of your life and donate it to a shelter. I'm one of the few who made it out, and I go back all the time to donate my time and my money to help others.
Jade
I like the toys for tots program. I also like the post office food drive. I suppose I'm your typical lazy American. The bin is right there in the store so its easy to pick up a couple of on sale toys and toss em in the bin on the way out. Same with the post office food drive. It doesn't take a whole lot of effort to fill a bag with canned food and hang it from the mailbox a few times a year.
Good to hear you are promoting corporate giving at your workplace TStephens.
Varrus dat you?
Good to hear you are promoting corporate giving at your workplace TStephens.
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Are there no poorhouses? No debtor prisons? Perhaps it would be a blessing if they died and cut down on the surplus population.
Varrus dat you?
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charity is a stupid idea, we fu[/i]ck people over and make them live in squalour, and then we give them food and look like the good guys? fu[i]ck you TStephens, that wasn't a good thing you did, don't feel noble or generous, you contribute to the system that means these people starve while others live in luxury, and you have made sure that a handful of people are slightly better off than before? that's not generous, that's selfish and your'e not a better man for it
Good work T!
I've never seen a can of corn that can change public policy but I have seen several that make Xmas dinner a little better.
The overwhelming musk of angst that hangs on every one of your posts is starting to make my eyes water drac.
The overwhelming musk of angst that hangs on every one of your posts is starting to make my eyes water drac.
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Oh hell camp me all you want f**kers. I own this site and thus I own you. - Allakhazam
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Aude Sapere
Oh hell camp me all you want f**kers. I own this site and thus I own you. - Allakhazam
Dracoid the Wise wrote:
charity is a stupid idea, we **** people over and make them live in squalour, and then we give them food and look like the good guys? **** you TStephens, that wasn't a good thing you did, don't feel noble or generous, you contribute to the system that means these people starve while others live in luxury, and you have made sure that a handful of people are slightly better off than before? that's not generous, that's selfish and your'e not a better man for it
I doubt hes ******* them over by donating food to help them have a little bit better nourishment. No selfishness in this act at all. Hell he could just not give any food, but a little can go a long ways. Always better to give some than none. We all know that. It's called "having a heart."
trolling or not i felt the need to respond to this one.
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I doubt hes @#%^ing them over by donating food to help them have a little bit better nourishment. No selfishness in this act at all. Hell he could just not give any food, but a little can go a long ways. Always better to give some than none.
i didn't say he was ******* them by giving them food, i said he was already ******* them, then he gave them food and he looks like the good guy, read what i said before you start trying to explain basic things to me as if you have the tiniest fragment of intellect
He's just mad because creamed corn and dinner rolls are the opiates of the masses...or was that the opiate of molasis....
Damn you Po' Folks!
Damn you Po' Folks!
Simple mistake. The selfishness still holds though.
and im not tryin to **** you off because you seem that way from the minute you post about anything. i am just bored passing the time in my class and i don't really give a **** either way.
and im not tryin to **** you off because you seem that way from the minute you post about anything. i am just bored passing the time in my class and i don't really give a **** either way.
Feeding hungry people is about the most noble thing a person can do.
It's just HUMAN.
It's just HUMAN.
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and im not tryin to **** you off because you seem that way from the minute you post about anything
Dracoid pissed???
No! Say it isn’t so!
Dracoid the Wise wrote:
charity is a stupid idea, we fu[/i]ck people over and make them live in squalour, and then we give them food and look like the good guys? fu[i]ck you TStephens, that wasn't a good thing you did, don't feel noble or generous, you contribute to the system that means these people starve while others live in luxury, and you have made sure that a handful of people are slightly better off than before? that's not generous, that's selfish and your'e not a better man for it
Because nobody ever starved in the USSR. That was a much better system.
Way to go, I sent my annual holiday donation to Dare to Care in Louisville, KY on Friday. I haven't made my Toys for Tots donation yet.
Seems to be a lot more families in the food bank this year. A lot are military families from around this area.
Seems to be a lot more families in the food bank this year. A lot are military families from around this area.
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charity is a stupid idea, we **** people over and make them live in squalour, and then we give them food and look like the good guys? **** you TStephens, that wasn't a good thing you did, don't feel noble or generous, you contribute to the system that means these people starve while others live in luxury, and you have made sure that a handful of people are slightly better off than before? that's not generous, that's selfish and your'e not a better man for it
Drac you **** poor mis-guided soul. Nobody enjoys reading your endless garbage and it's apparent now you've been rated down to the crap on the bottom of my shoes. TS Stephens makes a heartleft thread and you post your bile once again.
Thanks
Gadin
I hate attacking this post but i gotta.
TS most of your posts usually slant toward the republican side of things. Arent republicans supposed to be against charity. Just saying.
TS most of your posts usually slant toward the republican side of things. Arent republicans supposed to be against charity. Just saying.
PieMan wrote:
I hate attacking this post but i gotta.
If only all the attacks in the ASSylum were this gentle and kind. That was like a grease down and a shiatsu.
What's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh.
TStephens ~ Go geezer! Nice post
I donate old clothes to the 3rd world with two main satisfactions:
a) I feel better knowing that poor disadvantaged Africans and Asians might just survive cold nights thanks to a sweater or blanket,
b) I love the thought of some Somali refugee garbed in New Romantic outfits or Palestinians dressed like David Bowie in the 'Ziggy' years
I recommend to anyone (even 'pubbies) to spend Christams Eve or any cold Winter's night in the nasty part of town seeing the impact of a cup of hot soup or a blanket on some miserable soul that could so easily be your son, daughter, or you.
Next post may be a 'GFY' but this thread deserved holding back.
I donate old clothes to the 3rd world with two main satisfactions:
a) I feel better knowing that poor disadvantaged Africans and Asians might just survive cold nights thanks to a sweater or blanket,
b) I love the thought of some Somali refugee garbed in New Romantic outfits or Palestinians dressed like David Bowie in the 'Ziggy' years
I recommend to anyone (even 'pubbies) to spend Christams Eve or any cold Winter's night in the nasty part of town seeing the impact of a cup of hot soup or a blanket on some miserable soul that could so easily be your son, daughter, or you.
Next post may be a 'GFY' but this thread deserved holding back.
"I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left" - Seasick Steve
The child still living off his parents wrote:
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I doubt hes @#%^ing them over by donating food to help them have a little bit better nourishment. No selfishness in this act at all. Hell he could just not give any food, but a little can go a long ways. Always better to give some than none.
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i didn't say he was @#%^ing them by giving them food, i said he was already @#%^ing them, then he gave them food and he looks like the good guy, read what i said before you start trying to explain basic things to me as if you have the tiniest fragment of intellect
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I doubt hes @#%^ing them over by donating food to help them have a little bit better nourishment. No selfishness in this act at all. Hell he could just not give any food, but a little can go a long ways. Always better to give some than none.
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i didn't say he was @#%^ing them by giving them food, i said he was already @#%^ing them, then he gave them food and he looks like the good guy, read what i said before you start trying to explain basic things to me as if you have the tiniest fragment of intellect
Glad to see you'll be spending the holidays living off the sweat of your own brow, you hypocrite. Try to outgrow your training wheels before you enter any more debates on morality. If people are all so directly responsible for each other's misfortunes as you seem to think and doing good is all about the ego trip it gives you, it must somehow be my fault you're such a small-minded ***. Don't worry, I'll take care of it and it will make me feel fantastic.
PieMan wrote:
I hate attacking this post but i gotta.
TS most of your posts usually slant toward the republican side of things. Arent republicans supposed to be against charity. Just saying.
TS most of your posts usually slant toward the republican side of things. Arent republicans supposed to be against charity. Just saying.
1) TS is more of a moderate with convictions. He is not a party-line zealot like gbaji, but what he does beleive in, he will defend (IMO).
2) Republicans are pro-charity. They think that everyone should have the option to willingly choose to help out with societies woes, as opposed to getting the government involved.
Grocery stores are in my area are now making it very easy to give to the food shelves. They have pre-bagged groceries for the food shelves for various prices. You can just pick one up, pay for it at the register and put it in the food shelf collection area on your way out. It's fast, easy, anonymous and convenient as all get out. There's a tag on the bag saying what food shelf the food is going to, and what's in the bag.
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Feeding hungry people is about the most noble thing a person can do.
heres a hypothetical situation:
I break into your house and steal all of your food and money and your car and you stat to starve, then i come knock on your door and say "here's a tin of baked beans, its a fraction of what i live on, but you're a poor person, enjoy!"
would you think i was noble?
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Because nobody ever starved in the USSR. That was a much better system.
when have you EVER heard me say that the USSR was a better system? your'e doing the same old failing to distinguish betweeb soviet practice and socialist ideology routine, just shut up.
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Drac you **** poor mis-guided soul. Nobody enjoys reading your endless garbage and it's apparent now you've been rated down to the crap on the bottom of my shoes.
well don't i feel humble?
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Glad to see you'll be spending the holidays living off the sweat of your own brow, you hypocrite. Try to outgrow your training wheels before you enter any more debates on morality. If people are all so directly responsible for each other's misfortunes as you seem to think and doing good is all about the ego trip it gives you, it must somehow be my fault you're such a small-minded ***. Don't worry, I'll take care of it and it will make me feel fantastic.
1. if TStephens had done it out of the goodness of his heart and nothing else, he would not have needed to post this here
2. I did not say that TStephens was personally responsible for the misfortune of the people who are currently eating his baked beans, I said that he contributes to the system theat made them poor, and if he wanted to really help them, he would try to alter the system, rather than give a few people a tiny bit of food to live on for a week or so.
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