The company I use to work for donated left overs, but stopped because someone got sick and sued the company. As much as I like the idea, I can see people abusing this law.
Same thing happened here ìn Ohio. I hosted my sister's bridal shower at a hotel, and not everyone came. We asked to take the leftovers home, and they said we weren't allowed to do so because of that very reason. Such a waste of money and food.
@@elmariamgibson Your sister has already paid for the food. She can take it if she wants. You, on the other hand are not the paying customer, so under profit-driven "sanitary" laws, they can't give the food to you. Should have had your sister/husband ask, and they would have had to give it to them. They paid for it.
When I was young and worked for Starbucks the organization donated to would barely ever pick up the donations. 95% of the time we'd have them ready for nothing. Saw this happen at multiple locations over the years, not even one district or even one org that may have partnered with multiple locations. It got to a point a lot of stores didn't want to waste the labor because of these organizations. Across the board everything about food donations needs to be revamped. Even though companies like Starbucks try to forecast their supply to avoid waste it's devastating how much food was thrown out most nights.
The thing people don't realize is that it requires approval / laws changed to allow this. There are rules out there about "expired" foods (even if they are still good). I worked at a supermarket back in the 90's and every day we'd throw out at least 30 loaves of bread amongst other things. Basically bread baked daily gets tossed at the end of the day because fresh bread gets made the next day before the store even opens. Bread isn't dead after 20 hours . Opened packets (*those scummy parents who open a box of 10 iceblocks in the supermarket and give 1 to their kid to shut them up and leave the other 9 in the freezer*) of things get tossed as they can't be sold "individually". This means if you open that box of 10, you've now stolen 10 as the other 9 get tossed out as nobody is going to buy a 9 pack opened and pay for 10. People go to the deli and order $10 worth of something . It gets wrapped, priced, stickered and they put it in their cart. They then decide later they don't want it anymore and either (leave it on a shelf unrefrigerated or stick it in another fridge). This is something that can't be returned so it just goes to waste. I worked in a convenience store once and had this woman take a cold drink out of the fridge. She opened it right there in front of me and said, "I don't think it is full enough". Of course she broke the seal doing this which means I can't put it back on the shelf. I just drank it later on as it was now "waste". I assure you, there was nothing wrong with it apart from what she did to it by opening it.
Dumpster diving is illegal because of idiots that sued. They ruined it for the rest of us that realize " Do so at your own risk". I used to love dumpster diving. It's the adult version of Christmas, you never know what you might find.!!!!
Donating food to food banks and other nonprofit organizations is protected from criminal and civil lawsuits by the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, a federal law signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996. There is no available public record of anyone in the United States being sued because of harms related to donated food. Learn more:
I once worked at a country club, I couldn't believe how much buffet food they threw away after each day. I asked my manager if I could take food home for my family, she said no. It wouldn't look right if the patrons saw us taking food home. But still it's not right. We even had someone that got fired for taken food home.
The resort my wife worked at for a while has the same problem. Lots of food from the buffet goes to waste. They used to let employees take the leftovers, but had to stop that because all the employees started cooking extra to make sure there was food left over so they could take it home.
The reason why business don't give food to the employees or give food away is because of 2 reasons. 1) The one obvious reason is that workers will intentionally find ways to create more waste so they can take home free. Which hurts the business. Its not seriously big issue until you get those few that abuse it and ruin it for everyone else. 2) People by and large are selfish and horrible creatures. I've heard of stories from a few business I've worked for where they used to donate food or give food away that was going to be thrown away. The food would go to workers just about to go home from work, homeless people, or whoever. Person lies about getting sick or does get sick, then they sue. People want to know why business', governmental programs, food banks, and all of these other types of things aren't more generious or why we don't have "common sense" type laws and helping more people. Number 1 answer, people are aholes. While you might be truly wanting to help, there are lots of people ready and waiting to take advantage of that. Its a sad truth of reality.
Its a product that they already paid for. Its theirs. They also pay for trash removal. They could use it for toilet paper (if possible) and the government should have no say in it. You should have to donate all of your leftovers to charity. All of them. Even a half of a chicken wing if you cant finish it. This stupid socialist crap is why Cali sucks and people and businesses are leaving.
The problem in the past has been if someone gets sick because of discarded food that company can be held liable for damages. There has to be a release of liability form that a company can sign to release them from legal responsibility. Very simple.
That is NOT the problem. Trust me, it isn't; it's a cheap and easy excuse, though. But any way you slice it (lol), if you're hungry, you'd prefer to eat stale or "older" food rather than nothing. Otherwise, your health will decline far worse than what most semi-older food could do to you. The only way a person would perish from "expired" food would be from some seriously poor luck and poor judgement (such as drinking milk that is clumpy and stinks to high heaven). And if there's some hidden, undetectable pathogen... well, your number was up anyhow.
That still is very much a problem, the food needs to go to food distributors who are trained to check and redistribute the food and you are covered legally (as long as you don't purposefully give food that can make someone sick). This law changes none of that, all it does it make so those businesses need to get into contact with said food distributors to have them get first dibs on food before it's tossed. And as mentioned food on a buffet still gets tossed, but the uncooked chicken that was in the fridge all night in case it was needed can. But you still get no protection giving food directly to those who need it, it has to be through a food bank or something like that.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat Trust me on this one, Nova, this IS the main problem. A person who is starving and gets food poisoning from free food can successfully sue the donor and that hungry person might OWN the company that donated that food, unless there is some way to free them of liability.
Actually, grocery stores used to donate all their salvaged food to shelters until around the mid 1980s, they had to stop become too many " hungry" people would sue if the food wasnt perfect. Lets see how this plays out.
@@nate6045 What I said if factual. Plus, if you know anything about certain types of lawyers, you'd understand that one doesn't necessarily need money to bring forth a lawsuit, if the lawyer thinks they can win that's all it takes. The attorney will invest in it. I'm assuming you are very young with that ignorant reply.
@@nate6045 There are organizations that help fund court cases for the poor and if the case is good enough you can make the other party pay for everything.
i knew someone who used to work for the warehouses that pack the sandwich's for circle k and the amount of food they throw out is actually crazy. My friend would put all the food into a bag and leave it in the area the cameras couldnt see for the homeless to get a few meals daily. Nothing was wrong with the food they just always had too much and threw out the excess .
I noticed working at Circle K that we were ordering too much sandwiches and putting too many hotdogs on the grill and throwing away the leftovers, I tried suggesting to cut down on quantities but was told by management they purposely put too much food on display because it looks better when there is an abundance of food, nobody likes to be the person taking the last sandwich / hotdog :/
I once walked by a dumpster behind Sprouts only to find it filled with fresh edible, packaged produce and several fresh bouquets of flowers. I took the flowers and gave them away for free on a neighborhood Facebook page. I was dismayed at the amount of edible, good food that was piled in that trash can.
We damn well know you feasted on those dumpster goodies like the last supper. You up on here claiming you just gave the flowers away and mentioning nothing about the produce you were clearly obsessed with.
@bigpicturethinking5620 yeah and you would have too, don't lie. Why do you care what this fool did with shit they found in the dumpster... mind your own business.
@@Dr_KW Please explain why I am a fool? Why is everyone here so hateful? I dont understand. I simply saw an opportunity to reuse something that had been tossed.
Finally. France did this and give a slight tax write off for it. Also for everyone saying businesses get sued over it, look into the Good Samaritan food donation act. There’s protections already in place since the mid 90s.
It still doesn’t mean that a company won’t suffer financial loss because a person hires a shady lawyer to sue them which even if a judge throws the case out the company has lost money on the lawyers they have hired.
It's a tax write off in the US as well to donate anything to a charity, but a lot of companies still won't and it's not completely due to the risk of them getting sued either. Retailers will throw out anything, cloths, shoes, handbags, toys, etc. even though they are usable. Some will even have the employees destroy the items before placing them in the trash, like cutting holes in cloths or cutting cords on electronics.
@@pauliedweaselExactly! They need to pass a law that good faith donors can request a lawsuit get reviewed by an independent group that immediately throws out any cases that don’t involve deliberate donation of bad food, like stuff that’s visibly rotten right from the source or has been contaminated (like with soap) by some jerk who hates homeless people. As long as businesses and other donors still have to waste time and money defending against frivolous lawsuits with no merit, they’re still deterred from donating.
That's just an easy excuse for them to NOT donate, as it devalues their goods, that's their classic "economics trashy teaching"! 🤣 Coz many have been donating without a problem! There's a will, there's a way! 😏
@@teamofone1219 Of course I know, but them getting sick doesn't mean they can just sue the people who gave them FREE food 😆 I mean I wish I could claim couple millions when they gave out old free food on campus back in the day.. 🤣 Actually, I know plenty of places/church affiliates who have served rotten free food (chicken..) to their patrons for YEARs with no legal problems! 🤣 It's hard to even make it to court, unless a very desperate lawyer looking for "jobs" actively finds you.. 😆 But even then, there needs to be good evidence to prove that the donor purposely or negligently did that, otherwise you can only count on the judge being drugged to win the case.. 🤣 If you don't pay ANY money, you don't stand a CHNACE!
Another way to help hungry people is to support Meals On Wheels. They feed older , hungry, shut- in people who have trouble getting out or are homebound. Many of them cannot afford enough food! Try living on "social security. " Don't deny people this food. Donation of money or volunteer time to MOW is worthwhile and directly saves people.
There's more people in need than shitty old boomers who voted against their own best interests to the point they're impoverished fossils. Feed the people who didn't fuck the next 10 generations over first.
My wife and I live on social security, own our own home, drive 2 20 year old cars, eat out ocassionally, buy whatever food we like, and put money in the bank every month. It is how you live and spend your money that makes all the difference. Living alone is untenable in today's enviroment. Two social security checks makes all the difference in the world compared to one. Two people living in the same home hardly increases the expenses at all, but doubling the income makes all the difference.
I am a sous chef in a restaurant. While I understand the idea of doing this, one problem is liability. For example, if we were to donate our leftovers we would lose our liability insurance if they found out we did that. ALL insurance companies have this policy with regards to restaurant liability. Also, in my state, the person who prepares the food can be prosecuted if someone gets sick or dies as a result of mishandling. Once the food leaves the restaurant it is out of our control but that does not reduce our liability civil or criminal. No I am not talking about orders to go. I am talking about if we cook 100 meat patties then donate them to a charity and they mishandle those meat patties and someone get sick WE can still be prosecuted and sued over it. Also, as a point of science, food that is composted does NOT create more methane gas than food that is digested. So donating food to be eaten will NOT reduce methane emissions. Doing so will merely change where the methane comes from.
Just because there’s the Good Samaritan act doesn’t mean you won’t be sued, and even if the case gets thrown out by a judge you will still have spent money on a lawyer, it’s a lose lose situation made even worse by the Democrat party and its feel good ideas.
Actually it may cut down on the cost of trash pickup because they will have less trash thrown away. Goodwill has a huge trash bill because so many people donate actual trash
Most commercial properties use private garbage collection, usually that large metal bin behind the business that is collected at 4 am and wakes up the neighborhood, the contract for collecting garbage doesn’t matter how full the bin is, half full empty or full it is the same price, but you can schedule daily, every other day or weekly depending on how fast it takes to fill it. Mine is collected daily regardless of how much trash is in it
There are recovery business that process expired food into animal feed. It doesn't just end up in a landfill. My uncle bought two truckloads of expired cereal when i was a kid and we fed it to his hogs. I spent days opening boxes and dumping it out. But it was cool because I got all the toy prizes inside. It was fun.
Wow, and this won't cause people to wait for the food to be given to them for free instead of buying it? California, get ready for even more store closures.
How are stores going to close because of this? These large grocery chains get right offs so it’s not like they will be losing money. This might help stop shoplifting
I met a homeless guy I was locked up with, said he would literally wait for a family with kids, wait for them to finish eating at McDonalds, and he would say 9 times out of ten there was plenty of uneaten food just waiting in a bag for him. Saddest shit I ever heard.
@@kurtrussell5228 That is just open ended though, I have tried to get my ID the same way a homeless person would and it is a pain in the ass to get everything together to get any type of government assistance, a lot of work for someone that doesn't have a car. I've also been to homeless shelters, I would rather be on the street than some of these I have seen. With the cost of housing and job instability that 9 out of 10 is becoming a lot more people that put themselves in that position by trying to live a normal life and one bill away they get on the street.
This should have been done ages ago, still see 55 gallon bags FILLED with bread & bagels just sitting beside the dumpster from Panera. There needs to be more coordination with these groups to ensure this waste doesn't happen anymore. People are steuggling to be fed out there!
panera donates unused bread and pastries but when someone doesnt come pick it up they sometimes give it to employees (depends on closing manager) or they throw it out. I used to work at panera and theyre one of the better restaurants that actually donate BUT sometimes they dont get to donate and i think thats when they should allow employees to take the food in my opinion. it always depended on the manager and probably against their policies
@@jaycoleman8062 Exactly this. I get it, there's food safety and all of that, but why do Good Samaritan laws for food distribution only protect you if you give food to "licensed food distribution groups". Those bagels the OP mentioned absolutely could be given to any family down on their luck or something, but the store could get sued if anyone gets sick as a result, so they have to give the food to a food bank, then the food bank needs to give it to the families, and by then something like pastries/bread products are more suitable for building material than consumption. This bill as nice as it is, still changes none of that. That stadium can not give hot dogs to the homeless after the game or anything like that, it has to all go to food distributors, this only makes it a requirement that they have to give food to food banks instead of throwing it out.
Here's a different scenario but the same idea. We used to donate The ripped bags of dog and cat food that came into our store to the local shelters and then out of the blue corporate said you must throw it all out and never donated it again which I thought was quite silly.
finally! even when I was a kid and got thrown out of the house as a 17 year old as a kid because of abusive parents I was lucky that donut shops and other places in town donated their leftovers for the group home I was in until I finished my high school a nd was able to get my own place. I was so grateful for that food because many times I had to go without food before that.
I would donate the extra food from my business, BUT I WON'T HAVE ANY government ( they work for the people) WHAT TO DO , ESPECIALLY IN CALIFORNIA ❗️ SINCE THESE politicians ARE SO CONCERNED WITH PEOPLE GETTING FOOD TO EAT > (1) politicians TAKE A 25 %:CUT IN SALARY, (2) DONATE their TIME WORKING IN A FOOD PANTRY
As a teen, my husband worked for a restaurant. There was always food leftover. One night, he and a co-worker decided to take some dinner rolls and donate them to a shelter. Dinner rolls that had never touched a customer's plate. The shelter refused them. Told hubby that he could go to the store and BYE some and bring them, packaged, to donate. Hubby didn't.
Nope not allowed because if gave out food unused at restaurant Homeless person gets Sick then a Lawyer sues Restaurant! No Joke Tony Romas manager explained to me. Then looked it up. Correct!
@@redfoe77 This law does not. This just requires restaurants get in contact with food distributors to collects what they would normally throw away (and a few other things). The protection they have is part of the Good Samaritan act for food donations which is an existing law already, however that only gives you protection if you give the food to organizations that are trained to sort and distribute food (checking for freshness), it does not protect you if you give the food directly to people which is why the above comment about the Tony Romas restaurant and food banks won't take a bunch of meat that was sitting in a smoker that never got sold so it will still get thrown away.
Stores should have been doing this the whole time. It's miserly to just throw things away just because they couldn't sell products unless the food was about to rot. A lot of things can still be consumed past the expiration date.
It’s because of the risk of being sued. Even though there’s a federal law releasing donors from liability for good faith food donations, people can still sue, and the donor has to defend it at great cost, even if the case is tossed. They need to update the law to immediately toss such cases before the donor has to pay anything.
I knew someone that worked at Walmart and he said that they throw away the rotisserie chicken at the end of the night and don't let anyone take them home. I was horrified! What a waste.
There is a reason for this. Same reason kfc don't fry up a bunch of chicken 10 mins before closing. Be a bunch of chicken going home with the employee's.
How is it a good idea for restaurants and stores to donate this food?? Everyone wants to sue everyone these days. Especially if they get sick from it. Throw it away!
This is what eventually happens when businesses abuse their power. In general, a good portion of laws are passed simply because some idiot either got hurt doing something almost everyone else managed to do safely or they abused their freedom to the point that it hurt other people. Then everyone has to deal with less freedom simply because a small number of people ruined it for everyone.
@@DWN-079 What a stupid mindset from someone who does not understand even basic Economics 101. Do you really believe that EVERY "evil corporation" and company does not pass on any extra costs to YOU, immediately, when you consume and buy those products? Are you a marxist? A communist? Just be honest and upfront, with disclosure, before you make such stupid pronouncements. You have to be either naive or a communist. Start your OWN business and get a real education.
Meanwhile here in Texas we don't require such laws. A friend of mine is a member of a group of people who own BBQ catering trailers and they all cater to events at least part time. Any food they have left over is donated to various charities. My friend mostly donates his food to a local women's shelter in his neighborhood. Others donate to feed the elderly and home bound people. We have local grocery stores that donate to food banks and some of the road side produce stands donate as well.
I worked doing deliveries for NYC metro grocery chain, and every delivery also had pickups for donation. Anything they couldn’t sell but was still good, went back to the warehouse, and was then shipped off to food banks. It’s insane a law had to be passed requiring this.
In Chicago, a company filming food commercials (for restaurants, groceries etc) took the food used in the commercials and was donating to the homeless. Then someone sued them, saying they got sick. After that they just threw the food out.
FAKE. No one has ever been sued and there's literally a law (Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act of 1996) preventing the donating company from being sued. But keep lying.
According to the reporter, they're not doing this to feed the needy but to slow down methane gas. So feeding the poor is just an after effect. Feeding the low income citizens should be #1, not an after effect. At least they are doing something.
If you look at it closely, it is not that Fast Food restaurants and grocery throws away the food. After the day, they put it outside so homeless can take it if they like. If they give it to them, they can be sued especially if they are encouraged by their advocates even if their stomach ache was not due to the food given to them.
They do this in my state and I have Never got sick ,it's always frozen like meats and soups ,I love the idea and am grateful that I get some of this food from food bank and the U.S.does waste a extremely large amount of food .❤Thanks to all of you out their that Donate ❤❤❤
I worked in a school cafeteria in New York. At the end of the day EVERYTHING was thrown away. It made me sick. My sister works in a different school in New York and talks about how staff will buy food for kids because they know these kids don't have food at home.
That.. that is a core issue right there. When families have food insecurities and there are schools denying meals because of funds... While literally throwing out hundreds of pounds of food every day. Nobody is getting an education when their primary needs of food and shelter are not being met.
I have a relative who works at a mortuary. Many funeral/memorial events have huge amounts of food left over -- such as buffet-style sandwiches. On the way out the grieving families often say "you can have this food". My relative quickly wraps up all the still-fresh sandwiches and heads over to the homeless areas to distribute meals. However, I think this law is most useful for packaged food that hasn't been sold, but is dented or whatever. It's much harder to redistribute food that's been opened or sitting out.
How they gone force that …. At my old job in North Carolina the owner tried doing this and lost her business because everyone just waited till the end of the day that broke my heart
I don't understand how that could happen. Did everyone that would otherwise shop there go to the homeless shelter or soup kitchen afterwards looking for the food? That doesn't make any sense.
Then donate it to a facility for the poor or homeless instead of just giving it away to anyone at the end of the day. Or sell day old items at a discount.
And as far as the feeding Corporation, I used to work at local food banks and I can tell you first hand that from the moment they stuck their finger in the business our ability to hand out food got worse and our dumpsters were always much more full. . The one thing I always promoted was volunteering . This would have been the biggest obstacle to getting food from the rescue Warehouse out to the greater public.
At our food bank we freeze milk and give it out past the expiration date. It's really shown me how our shopping habits (taking a later date off the shelf) allow for those to have food at food banks. It's difficult to say other than we use judgement and inspect items that come in before handing them out. We're the last to inspect food that goes in their bag, so I'd probably say the food banks. But people should also use their discretion. Although, if people were desperate on the streets they would probably be shifting through a dumpster for this food. Who knows. . .
Fine and dandy if one enjoys another law telling you what you can and not do with something you own. Now, let's talk about farm to fork; how is that food going to be traced if there is a food related crisis, and will the donors be held responsible?
This is such a good thing, and I wish every state would do it! On the other hand, I knew California had to have an ulterior motive. If not for the methane gas and the environment, they wouldn’t have cared about decreasing food waste, and feeding the hungry.
@@jack-is-back no you are not stupid! California’s MAIN reason for doing this is because of methane gas, created in landfills from rotted food. If not for that environmental concern, the waste would continue to go to landfills. Instead, there is a bit of a “perk” from all this. That same wasted food, that once ended up rotting away in a landfill, is going to feed the hungry. I’m just saying California’s government is selfish, and their hidden agendas are not necessarily going to do what is best for their people.
You want the truck driver to deliver it for free after they reject it and not get paid and pay for it .work for big companies that want you to take it there after a rejection of the product and drive across town or city to some small place and not get paid a cent and no load if you refuse. That’s why dumpsters at truck stops are full . The business don’t want it and aren’t buying it . The driver is a lease driver he has no where to put it except trash .
@@RaveMasterr So we donate money to groceries stores and restaurants for goods and services. We also donate money to the government for taxes. People should get rid of the word “pay” out of the dictionary from now on. Donate sounds to so much better!! Make it feel like we’re all great people helping each other out. When I donate my money at a restaurant, they donate food to me. What a great society everyone donates to each other.
@@georgemaximus694 well, if you want a full definition, as per Oxford language, donate = give (money or goods) for a good cause pay = give (someone) money that is due for work done, goods received, or a debt incurred. So, it seems that you can't use the word donate if you are shopping.
Too bad the food is TOO expensive in the first place. I go to local food banks every week and we are given what the stores can't sell because the corporations charge too much for ordinary people to afford.
Long over due, remember a orange orchard throw away mountains of orange, they wasn't pretty enough for stores, what a waste. I seen Walmart throw out do much good food it's crazy.
Actually, there are laws REQUIRING fruit to be thrown away if it's not pretty enough, or if it's not of mandated minimum size. I dated a girl whose family farms strawberries, and they've had years where over half the crop went to jam and preserves because of state requirements. Since then, I buy from local farmers when available.
@@SoloPilot6 😔 sad ,my heart broke watching them destroy mountains of oranges, last year, cause weather made them not pretty enough to sell, the oranges was still good, crazy. World, waste . Good food. Cause of looks.
Bad law. the government should not be mandating this, giving away free food. Meanwhile the CEO of Feeding San Diego makes $265,000 per year salary. why not mandate that the CEO work for free? This non profit organization sure pays its CEO very well, and the state is forcing other companies to contribute. What a scam.
The main reason they passed the bill was because of methane gas in landfills? The money grab from the "green new deal" is more important than hungry people?
My theory is this: So you know how the New Deal passed by FDR expanded welfare which fastforward to today is responsible for the most of the crime, poverty and ballooning national deficit? This new bill probably aims to help push us in that direction even further. I know it sounds cruel, but sometimes in the long run helping people hurts them more than if you let them help themself.
It's their food, they bought it, they own it, the government should never be able to force private business to forfeit property...... the government can buy it from the business if it's so important
Donating food is always a bad idea. I stopped volunteering at a food bank for this reason. People get angry when they don't pay for food and often retaliate against you. No good deed goes unpunished.
Now that it's mandatory, who pays for the storage? Who pays to wrap or package the food? Who pays to transport it? Who pays to bring the food to proper temperature?
...sounds like a good way to increase the cost to companies for additional distribution. Generally throwing the food away in the trash is a lot quicker and sending it to the landfill just requires a little bit larger trash capacity which generally isn't an issue. Saving/donating food requires people at the end of the shift to do all the necessary preparations to get the food in appropriate storage containers at the appropriate temperatures in an appropriate location, and then they have to be shipped in specialized trucks to go to a particular area who then check the food, and then a good amount of that food gets thrown away...
No, make the charities/churches come package the food themselves with volunteers and transport it themselves. It should be a zero cost operation for the food business, which is a profit-making free enterprise entity, not a charity. If there are no volunteers, so be it.
I watched a Sam’s Club worker throw out about 10 whole cooked chickens in the trash can. So I asked why. He said that they could not sell them because they expired time stamp after cooking. I had just put on in my cart, before he started throwing them in the trash can. I handed it back and told him that he missed one. He said no he didn’t. It was in my basket. So my next question was, if those are bad how is mine not with the same time stamp? He simply walked away. Later I told a friend. When there is nothing left to eat, you can find me at Sam’s dumpster, eating hot chicken. 🤤
"required" to "donate". Those words don't belong in the same sentance. Rather, it sounds like another unconstitution CA law to solve another problem CA government created.
While its a good thought, the State didn't pay for these items, they don't belong to California. This is an illegal seizure. If the state wants these items donated then they need to pay someone to organize, collect and distribute them at no expense to the retailers. Or better yet, let the state purchase the items since they've created this mess. That's why 1/3 of the homeless in America live in Commifornia
In the grand scheme of things this costs the orgs with excess food nothing. I could see it being difficult to keep food that needs freezer and fridge on hand until the food bank trucks arrive though
I read a report that 45% of food in this country gets tossed or wasted . Insane and whats even more sad is how much energy is wasted to grow and transport all that wasted food , fuel , water , man power etc etc etc .....all wasted for nothing
Equivalent to having resturant police to make sure everyone eats their food, because someone else might be hungry. Owners should be able to do as they please with their food. Free market works well.
I certainly hope this organization prioritizes veterans and citizens over illegal migrants - seems to me the California government made this mandatory to help pay for the illegal migrant expenses. I also hope these businesses are able to write off the donations on their federal and state taxes. Otherwise, it’s nothing more than a government edict being fulfilled at the business’ expense.
When I did field duty in the Army, I asked why we were throwing out food that could feed people. My Captain said because someone might get sick. I pointed out that it was the same food the troops were being served. He had no comeback for that.
In and of itself, the excessive food waste in this country is a terrible sin!☹️ After so much recent stupidity, California is actually doing something great and wonderful!!!😃👍👍👍
I think it’s a good idea. I do not think however that the state has any authority in this matter. In fact, I know they don’t because they are not granted that authority.
Technically, we allow them to have that authority. It's the catch-22 to the state vs federal argument...give the state enough power, they make strange, barely enforceable laws...for better or worse
@@cosmicllama6910Food prices are still cheap as can be. People are getting told B.S. Since 1990 food prices went up 3.67x in California. Minimum wage has gone up 3,76x in the same time period. Yet people don't talk about that second part. Food is actually cheaper than it was when I was a kid where I live. The entitled youth just cherry pick facts and only base food prices off the all time historic lows. That extra food is due to over production and when over production ends due to this stupid law the cost of food is going to skyrocket compared to wage inflation, causing more hunger. Almost everybody in the comments don't understand economics at all.
The food is out dated so it’s a health risk that’s why it goes it goes in the garbage dump. What’s going to happen to the stores if homeless people start getting sick from that food ??????????????
Everyone is one debilitated illness or injury away from being disabled. How would you support yourself & have enough to live? Many disabled people go hungry because SSDI & SSI don't pay enough to live.
Next in the works, any money you have left over at the end of the month you MUST “Donate” it to the state. Where they will make sure there is none left at the end of the month.
@@alexmendez3681do you not see the harm in people going starving and homeless while perfectly good food is put to waste and houses sit empty? Putting money first is everything that's wrong with society and exactly why society will collapse if we don't share like we learned to do in KINDERGARTEN. "Every man for himself" is making us Rome 2.0
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The company I use to work for donated left overs, but stopped because someone got sick and sued the company. As much as I like the idea, I can see people abusing this law.
Yeah, that is the problem. I hope there are provisions to limit the accountability of venues that donate food in good faith.
Same thing happened here ìn Ohio. I hosted my sister's bridal shower at a hotel, and not everyone came. We asked to take the leftovers home, and they said we weren't allowed to do so because of that very reason. Such a waste of money and food.
@@elmariamgibson Your sister has already paid for the food. She can take it if she wants. You, on the other hand are not the paying customer, so under profit-driven "sanitary" laws, they can't give the food to you. Should have had your sister/husband ask, and they would have had to give it to them. They paid for it.
When I was young and worked for Starbucks the organization donated to would barely ever pick up the donations. 95% of the time we'd have them ready for nothing. Saw this happen at multiple locations over the years, not even one district or even one org that may have partnered with multiple locations.
It got to a point a lot of stores didn't want to waste the labor because of these organizations. Across the board everything about food donations needs to be revamped. Even though companies like Starbucks try to forecast their supply to avoid waste it's devastating how much food was thrown out most nights.
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The thing people don't realize is that it requires approval / laws changed to allow this. There are rules out there about "expired" foods (even if they are still good). I worked at a supermarket back in the 90's and every day we'd throw out at least 30 loaves of bread amongst other things. Basically bread baked daily gets tossed at the end of the day because fresh bread gets made the next day before the store even opens. Bread isn't dead after 20 hours . Opened packets (*those scummy parents who open a box of 10 iceblocks in the supermarket and give 1 to their kid to shut them up and leave the other 9 in the freezer*) of things get tossed as they can't be sold "individually". This means if you open that box of 10, you've now stolen 10 as the other 9 get tossed out as nobody is going to buy a 9 pack opened and pay for 10.
People go to the deli and order $10 worth of something . It gets wrapped, priced, stickered and they put it in their cart. They then decide later they don't want it anymore and either (leave it on a shelf unrefrigerated or stick it in another fridge). This is something that can't be returned so it just goes to waste.
I worked in a convenience store once and had this woman take a cold drink out of the fridge. She opened it right there in front of me and said, "I don't think it is full enough". Of course she broke the seal doing this which means I can't put it back on the shelf. I just drank it later on as it was now "waste". I assure you, there was nothing wrong with it apart from what she did to it by opening it.
I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING YOU SAID...
People are just such inconsiderate prick's , say it isn't soooo.
Oh man! I didn't know any of this. It sounds like you have a lot of experience and good stories to tell about working in a grocery store.
Dumpster diving is illegal because of idiots that sued. They ruined it for the rest of us that realize " Do so at your own risk". I used to love dumpster diving. It's the adult version of Christmas, you never know what you might find.!!!!
Donating food to food banks and other nonprofit organizations is protected from criminal and civil lawsuits by the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, a federal law signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996. There is no available public record of anyone in the United States being sued because of harms related to donated food.
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I once worked at a country club, I couldn't believe how much buffet food they threw away after each day. I asked my manager if I could take food home for my family, she said no. It wouldn't look right if the patrons saw us taking food home. But still it's not right. We even had someone that got fired for taken food home.
The resort my wife worked at for a while has the same problem. Lots of food from the buffet goes to waste. They used to let employees take the leftovers, but had to stop that because all the employees started cooking extra to make sure there was food left over so they could take it home.
@@wsinbad13561000% you right! They gonna cook extra for them!
The reason why business don't give food to the employees or give food away is because of 2 reasons.
1) The one obvious reason is that workers will intentionally find ways to create more waste so they can take home free. Which hurts the business. Its not seriously big issue until you get those few that abuse it and ruin it for everyone else.
2) People by and large are selfish and horrible creatures. I've heard of stories from a few business I've worked for where they used to donate food or give food away that was going to be thrown away. The food would go to workers just about to go home from work, homeless people, or whoever. Person lies about getting sick or does get sick, then they sue.
People want to know why business', governmental programs, food banks, and all of these other types of things aren't more generious or why we don't have "common sense" type laws and helping more people. Number 1 answer, people are aholes. While you might be truly wanting to help, there are lots of people ready and waiting to take advantage of that. Its a sad truth of reality.
Maximum freshness is not the same as expired. 😊
I think it’s a great idea. If it can help even a few people, go for it
The throw aways help me feed my farm animals🙏🤙🌊🦆💯💜
Its a product that they already paid for. Its theirs. They also pay for trash removal. They could use it for toilet paper (if possible) and the government should have no say in it.
You should have to donate all of your leftovers to charity. All of them. Even a half of a chicken wing if you cant finish it.
This stupid socialist crap is why Cali sucks and people and businesses are leaving.
Yeah. Now they wont need tax funded food stamps either. Oh wait, no, they'll still get that too.😮
Doesn't sound very american.
Get a job 👈 🙄 LOL
The problem in the past has been if someone gets sick because of discarded food that company can be held liable for damages. There has to be a release of liability form that a company can sign to release them from legal responsibility. Very simple.
That is NOT the problem. Trust me, it isn't; it's a cheap and easy excuse, though. But any way you slice it (lol), if you're hungry, you'd prefer to eat stale or "older" food rather than nothing. Otherwise, your health will decline far worse than what most semi-older food could do to you. The only way a person would perish from "expired" food would be from some seriously poor luck and poor judgement (such as drinking milk that is clumpy and stinks to high heaven). And if there's some hidden, undetectable pathogen... well, your number was up anyhow.
That still is very much a problem, the food needs to go to food distributors who are trained to check and redistribute the food and you are covered legally (as long as you don't purposefully give food that can make someone sick). This law changes none of that, all it does it make so those businesses need to get into contact with said food distributors to have them get first dibs on food before it's tossed. And as mentioned food on a buffet still gets tossed, but the uncooked chicken that was in the fridge all night in case it was needed can. But you still get no protection giving food directly to those who need it, it has to be through a food bank or something like that.
They do now.
@@Mike__B You are correct, Mike.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat Trust me on this one, Nova, this IS the main problem. A person who is starving and gets food poisoning from free food can successfully sue the donor and that hungry person might OWN the company that donated that food, unless there is some way to free them of liability.
Actually, grocery stores used to donate all their salvaged food to shelters until around the mid 1980s, they had to stop become too many " hungry" people would sue if the food wasnt perfect. Lets see how this plays out.
Ah yes I too have money for a lawsuit but no money for food
@@nate6045 What I said if factual. Plus, if you know anything about certain types of lawyers, you'd understand that one doesn't necessarily need money to bring forth a lawsuit, if the lawyer thinks they can win that's all it takes. The attorney will invest in it. I'm assuming you are very young with that ignorant reply.
@@nate6045 There are organizations that help fund court cases for the poor and if the case is good enough you can make the other party pay for everything.
@nikkibest5010 Ah yes, you said it's factual so it must be true!
@@nate6045 You do realize you can always research things to find out if they're factual or not. No need to be an arse h o l e about it.
i knew someone who used to work for the warehouses that pack the sandwich's for circle k and the amount of food they throw out is actually crazy. My friend would put all the food into a bag and leave it in the area the cameras couldnt see for the homeless to get a few meals daily. Nothing was wrong with the food they just always had too much and threw out the excess .
same as 711 stores/factory 😢
I knew a Couple people actually eating out of the dumpster where they throw food out. DUMPSTER DIVING making it fun While Living in EXTREME POVERTY!
AND NOT A JOKE...IT'S A TRUE STORY! 😕
I noticed working at Circle K that we were ordering too much sandwiches and putting too many hotdogs on the grill and throwing away the leftovers, I tried suggesting to cut down on quantities but was told by management they purposely put too much food on display because it looks better when there is an abundance of food, nobody likes to be the person taking the last sandwich / hotdog :/
No don’t feed them! Your adding to the bird problem…
I once walked by a dumpster behind Sprouts only to find it filled with fresh edible, packaged produce and several fresh bouquets of flowers. I took the flowers and gave them away for free on a neighborhood Facebook page. I was dismayed at the amount of edible, good food that was piled in that trash can.
We damn well know you feasted on those dumpster goodies like the last supper. You up on here claiming you just gave the flowers away and mentioning nothing about the produce you were clearly obsessed with.
@bigpicturethinking5620 yeah and you would have too, don't lie. Why do you care what this fool did with shit they found in the dumpster... mind your own business.
@@bigpicturethinking5620 What the heck? Why are you being so nasty to me? I didn't eat out of the dumpster. I don't get your angry weirdness here.
@@Dr_KW Please explain why I am a fool? Why is everyone here so hateful? I dont understand. I simply saw an opportunity to reuse something that had been tossed.
@@bombaybeach208they're just mad you found it and they didn't
Finally. France did this and give a slight tax write off for it.
Also for everyone saying businesses get sued over it, look into the Good Samaritan food donation act. There’s protections already in place since the mid 90s.
It still doesn’t mean that a company won’t suffer financial loss because a person hires a shady lawyer to sue them which even if a judge throws the case out the company has lost money on the lawyers they have hired.
It's a tax write off in the US as well to donate anything to a charity, but a lot of companies still won't and it's not completely due to the risk of them getting sued either. Retailers will throw out anything, cloths, shoes, handbags, toys, etc. even though they are usable. Some will even have the employees destroy the items before placing them in the trash, like cutting holes in cloths or cutting cords on electronics.
@@pauliedweaselExactly! They need to pass a law that good faith donors can request a lawsuit get reviewed by an independent group that immediately throws out any cases that don’t involve deliberate donation of bad food, like stuff that’s visibly rotten right from the source or has been contaminated (like with soap) by some jerk who hates homeless people. As long as businesses and other donors still have to waste time and money defending against frivolous lawsuits with no merit, they’re still deterred from donating.
@@madmatt2024 Liar.
Remember when Food Banks were a short term solution to the early eighties tough times???
Companys and stores are afraid of being sued!!
It's called a non-liability form dork 😂
That's just an easy excuse for them to NOT donate, as it devalues their goods, that's their classic "economics trashy teaching"! 🤣 Coz many have been donating without a problem! There's a will, there's a way! 😏
@@Western_ENT people have gotten sick from eating donated food or thrown out food from the dumpster.
@@teamofone1219 Of course I know, but them getting sick doesn't mean they can just sue the people who gave them FREE food 😆 I mean I wish I could claim couple millions when they gave out old free food on campus back in the day.. 🤣 Actually, I know plenty of places/church affiliates who have served rotten free food (chicken..) to their patrons for YEARs with no legal problems! 🤣 It's hard to even make it to court, unless a very desperate lawyer looking for "jobs" actively finds you.. 😆 But even then, there needs to be good evidence to prove that the donor purposely or negligently did that, otherwise you can only count on the judge being drugged to win the case.. 🤣 If you don't pay ANY money, you don't stand a CHNACE!
STOP LYING!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Emerson_Good_Samaritan_Act_of_1996
We have had protection for donations for almost 30 years.
Another way to help hungry people is to support Meals On Wheels. They feed older , hungry, shut- in people who have trouble getting out or are homebound. Many of them cannot afford enough food! Try living on "social security. " Don't deny people this food.
Donation of money or volunteer time to MOW is worthwhile and directly saves people.
We should worry about feeding our elderly and veterans first.
There's more people in need than shitty old boomers who voted against their own best interests to the point they're impoverished fossils. Feed the people who didn't fuck the next 10 generations over first.
@@user-pw2yg9ks1qso, homeless ppl
My wife and I live on social security, own our own home, drive 2 20 year old cars, eat out ocassionally, buy whatever food we like, and put money in the bank every month. It is how you live and spend your money that makes all the difference. Living alone is untenable in today's enviroment. Two social security checks makes all the difference in the world compared to one. Two people living in the same home hardly increases the expenses at all, but doubling the income makes all the difference.
@@user-pw2yg9ks1q nope, they're already welfare leeches
I am a sous chef in a restaurant. While I understand the idea of doing this, one problem is liability. For example, if we were to donate our leftovers we would lose our liability insurance if they found out we did that. ALL insurance companies have this policy with regards to restaurant liability. Also, in my state, the person who prepares the food can be prosecuted if someone gets sick or dies as a result of mishandling. Once the food leaves the restaurant it is out of our control but that does not reduce our liability civil or criminal. No I am not talking about orders to go. I am talking about if we cook 100 meat patties then donate them to a charity and they mishandle those meat patties and someone get sick WE can still be prosecuted and sued over it.
Also, as a point of science, food that is composted does NOT create more methane gas than food that is digested. So donating food to be eaten will NOT reduce methane emissions. Doing so will merely change where the methane comes from.
You should look up the federal law on donating food, and the liability.
I wonder if the law is for preparing corporate protections to support companies being sued by people who get sick from eating the leftover food.
Did they release liability issues? Make sure those places who have to give food away are not held accountable for anything that could go wrong?
Right? That was the main reason they didn’t give away the food in the first place.
Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act of 1996. Just google it, dude.
@@GummyDinosaursify i worked at many restaurants in my time, and we weren't allowed to give away any food because of lawsuits...
Just because there’s the Good Samaritan act doesn’t mean you won’t be sued, and even if the case gets thrown out by a judge you will still have spent money on a lawyer, it’s a lose lose situation made even worse by the Democrat party and its feel good ideas.
@@GummyDinosaursifydoesn’t work in CA. You can be sued.
Any business forced to "donate" excess food, should at least get a tax write-off of their actual costs.
Actually it may cut down on the cost of trash pickup because they will have less trash thrown away. Goodwill has a huge trash bill because so many people donate actual trash
@@terryowen6759 I did not know that. Thank you for telling me how I can make goodwill lose money.
Nah, trash pickup fees will not fall from this. Wishful thinking or rationalizing?
Most commercial properties use private garbage collection, usually that large metal bin behind the business that is collected at 4 am and wakes up the neighborhood, the contract for collecting garbage doesn’t matter how full the bin is, half full empty or full it is the same price, but you can schedule daily, every other day or weekly depending on how fast it takes to fill it. Mine is collected daily regardless of how much trash is in it
why?
There are recovery business that process expired food into animal feed. It doesn't just end up in a landfill. My uncle bought two truckloads of expired cereal when i was a kid and we fed it to his hogs. I spent days opening boxes and dumping it out. But it was cool because I got all the toy prizes inside. It was fun.
THE ENTIRE US NEEDS TO BE LIKE THIS!!! HUGE STEP FOWARD 🥳🤠
But this bill hurts more than it helps. Why do most people like you not see this?
@@alexmendez3681please explain
@@alexmendez3681 They exist in the realm of feelings because they lack actual knowledge.
Agreed
I guess this explains why our policies have failed this state. Too many stupid people outvote the others.
Wow, and this won't cause people to wait for the food to be given to them for free instead of buying it?
California, get ready for even more store closures.
How are stores going to close because of this? These large grocery chains get right offs so it’s not like they will be losing money. This might help stop shoplifting
I met a homeless guy I was locked up with, said he would literally wait for a family with kids, wait for them to finish eating at McDonalds, and he would say 9 times out of ten there was plenty of uneaten food just waiting in a bag for him. Saddest shit I ever heard.
Well " 9 times out of ten" homeless people put themselves in that position.
@@kurtrussell5228 That is just open ended though, I have tried to get my ID the same way a homeless person would and it is a pain in the ass to get everything together to get any type of government assistance, a lot of work for someone that doesn't have a car. I've also been to homeless shelters, I would rather be on the street than some of these I have seen. With the cost of housing and job instability that 9 out of 10 is becoming a lot more people that put themselves in that position by trying to live a normal life and one bill away they get on the street.
Boo hoo @@KRYPTOKINGGAMING
@@kurtrussell5228 Tell me you're living off of mommy and daddy's money without telling me
@@GummyDinosaursify I am the daddy......
This should have been done ages ago, still see 55 gallon bags FILLED with bread & bagels just sitting beside the dumpster from Panera. There needs to be more coordination with these groups to ensure this waste doesn't happen anymore. People are steuggling to be fed out there!
Blame the ambulance chasers for the food waste...
The problem is businesses don't want to be held responsible for someone eating out-of-date food. Just like everything else, lawsuits are their excuse.
panera donates unused bread and pastries but when someone doesnt come pick it up they sometimes give it to employees (depends on closing manager) or they throw it out.
I used to work at panera and theyre one of the better restaurants that actually donate BUT sometimes they dont get to donate and i think thats when they should allow employees to take the food in my opinion. it always depended on the manager and probably against their policies
@@jaycoleman8062 Exactly this. I get it, there's food safety and all of that, but why do Good Samaritan laws for food distribution only protect you if you give food to "licensed food distribution groups". Those bagels the OP mentioned absolutely could be given to any family down on their luck or something, but the store could get sued if anyone gets sick as a result, so they have to give the food to a food bank, then the food bank needs to give it to the families, and by then something like pastries/bread products are more suitable for building material than consumption.
This bill as nice as it is, still changes none of that. That stadium can not give hot dogs to the homeless after the game or anything like that, it has to all go to food distributors, this only makes it a requirement that they have to give food to food banks instead of throwing it out.
Here's a different scenario but the same idea. We used to donate The ripped bags of dog and cat food that came into our store to the local shelters and then out of the blue corporate said you must throw it all out and never donated it again which I thought was quite silly.
finally!
even when I was a kid and got thrown out of the house as a 17 year old as a kid because of abusive parents I was lucky that donut shops and other places in town donated their leftovers for the group home I was in until I finished my high school a nd was able to get my own place. I was so grateful for that food because many times I had to go without food before that.
You would have received food that wasn't "thrown out."
I would donate the extra food from my business, BUT I WON'T HAVE ANY government ( they work for the people) WHAT TO DO , ESPECIALLY IN CALIFORNIA ❗️ SINCE THESE politicians ARE SO CONCERNED WITH PEOPLE GETTING FOOD TO EAT > (1) politicians TAKE A 25 %:CUT IN SALARY, (2) DONATE their TIME WORKING IN A FOOD PANTRY
As a teen, my husband worked for a restaurant. There was always food leftover. One night, he and a co-worker decided to take some dinner rolls and donate them to a shelter. Dinner rolls that had never touched a customer's plate. The shelter refused them. Told hubby that he could go to the store and BYE some and bring them, packaged, to donate. Hubby didn't.
THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE 50 YEARS BACK AND COULD HAVE IF IT WEREN'T FOR GREEDY POLITICIANS WHO VIEW THE HUNGRY AS WORTHLESS!!
Nope not allowed because if gave out food unused at restaurant Homeless person gets Sick then a Lawyer sues Restaurant! No Joke Tony Romas manager explained to me. Then looked it up. Correct!
THIS NEVER CAME TO MIND AND YOU'RE SO RIGHT. FOR ME IT WAS THE THOUGHT OF "KIDS" GOING HUNGRY!@@thomasgentry6201
So does this new law protect the restaurants from being sued if they donate the food?
@@redfoe77 This law does not. This just requires restaurants get in contact with food distributors to collects what they would normally throw away (and a few other things). The protection they have is part of the Good Samaritan act for food donations which is an existing law already, however that only gives you protection if you give the food to organizations that are trained to sort and distribute food (checking for freshness), it does not protect you if you give the food directly to people which is why the above comment about the Tony Romas restaurant and food banks won't take a bunch of meat that was sitting in a smoker that never got sold so it will still get thrown away.
Stores should have been doing this the whole time. It's miserly to just throw things away just because they couldn't sell products unless the food was about to rot. A lot of things can still be consumed past the expiration date.
It’s because of the risk of being sued. Even though there’s a federal law releasing donors from liability for good faith food donations, people can still sue, and the donor has to defend it at great cost, even if the case is tossed. They need to update the law to immediately toss such cases before the donor has to pay anything.
@@evilsharkey8954 Yeah, and people are notoriously greedy. They'll sue as though it was a surer bet than getting a jackpot at a casino.
I knew someone that worked at Walmart and he said that they throw away the rotisserie chicken at the end of the night and don't let anyone take them home. I was horrified! What a waste.
There is a reason for this. Same reason kfc don't fry up a bunch of chicken 10 mins before closing. Be a bunch of chicken going home with the employee's.
How is it a good idea for restaurants and stores to donate this food?? Everyone wants to sue everyone these days. Especially if they get sick from it. Throw it away!
Why can't those purchasing the food decide since it is their property?
At this point I’m surprised they haven’t just passed a bill giving the government absolute control over every business.
That's next. After the Democrats can declare martial law.
This is what eventually happens when businesses abuse their power. In general, a good portion of laws are passed simply because some idiot either got hurt doing something almost everyone else managed to do safely or they abused their freedom to the point that it hurt other people. Then everyone has to deal with less freedom simply because a small number of people ruined it for everyone.
considering a few large businesses control the government, i dont see an issue with forcing them to give back to the people.
@@DWN-079 What a stupid mindset from someone who does not understand even basic Economics 101. Do you really believe that EVERY "evil corporation" and company does not pass on any extra costs to YOU, immediately, when you consume and buy those products?
Are you a marxist? A communist? Just be honest and upfront, with disclosure, before you make such stupid pronouncements. You have to be either naive or a communist.
Start your OWN business and get a real education.
Meanwhile here in Texas we don't require such laws. A friend of mine is a member of a group of people who own BBQ catering trailers and they all cater to events at least part time. Any food they have left over is donated to various charities. My friend mostly donates his food to a local women's shelter in his neighborhood. Others donate to feed the elderly and home bound people. We have local grocery stores that donate to food banks and some of the road side produce stands donate as well.
I can guarantee there's plenty of places in Texas who just throw out the food. There's no state that doesn't have massive waste.
I dumpster dive. You're right. @@GummyDinosaursify
At least we don't have laws that prohibit us from donating
Wow, that sounds like you're bragging on California. BTW, you forgot to end your sentence with "yet!"@@lauriivey7801
I worked doing deliveries for NYC metro grocery chain, and every delivery also had pickups for donation. Anything they couldn’t sell but was still good, went back to the warehouse, and was then shipped off to food banks. It’s insane a law had to be passed requiring this.
In Chicago, a company filming food commercials (for restaurants, groceries etc) took the food used in the commercials and was donating to the homeless. Then someone sued them, saying they got sick. After that they just threw the food out.
FAKE. No one has ever been sued and there's literally a law (Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act of 1996) preventing the donating company from being sued. But keep lying.
According to the reporter, they're not doing this to feed the needy but to slow down methane gas. So feeding the poor is just an after effect. Feeding the low income citizens should be #1, not an after effect. At least they are doing something.
If you look at it closely, it is not that Fast Food restaurants and grocery throws away the food. After the day, they put it outside so homeless can take it if they like. If they give it to them, they can be sued especially if they are encouraged by their advocates even if their stomach ache was not due to the food given to them.
Lol, no. Look at every fast food place's dumpster and you'll see they keep it locked. They don't want bums hanging around.
Our country is constrained by frivolous lawsuits.
They do this in my state and I have Never got sick ,it's always frozen like meats and soups ,I love the idea and am grateful that I get some of this food from food bank and the U.S.does waste a extremely large amount of food .❤Thanks to all of you out their that Donate ❤❤❤
I worked in a school cafeteria in New York. At the end of the day EVERYTHING was thrown away. It made me sick. My sister works in a different school in New York and talks about how staff will buy food for kids because they know these kids don't have food at home.
That.. that is a core issue right there. When families have food insecurities and there are schools denying meals because of funds... While literally throwing out hundreds of pounds of food every day. Nobody is getting an education when their primary needs of food and shelter are not being met.
@@Look_What_You_Did I agree 100%
I have a relative who works at a mortuary. Many funeral/memorial events have huge amounts of food left over -- such as buffet-style sandwiches. On the way out the grieving families often say "you can have this food". My relative quickly wraps up all the still-fresh sandwiches and heads over to the homeless areas to distribute meals. However, I think this law is most useful for packaged food that hasn't been sold, but is dented or whatever. It's much harder to redistribute food that's been opened or sitting out.
How they gone force that …. At my old job in North Carolina the owner tried doing this and lost her business because everyone just waited till the end of the day that broke my heart
Probably by making the trash companies enforce it, but not sure. France already has a law like this.
@@notright7 Do they have have liability protection incase someone tries to sue the company that sold it?
I don't understand how that could happen. Did everyone that would otherwise shop there go to the homeless shelter or soup kitchen afterwards looking for the food? That doesn't make any sense.
Then donate it to a facility for the poor or homeless instead of just giving it away to anyone at the end of the day. Or sell day old items at a discount.
Feeding people food set for the trash. This isnt clean or caring.these people who passed this bill wouldnt touch this food. EVER
Tried for years to give food away. The government makes it too difficult…. Stopped trying
And as far as the feeding Corporation, I used to work at local food banks and I can tell you first hand that from the moment they stuck their finger in the business our ability to hand out food got worse and our dumpsters were always much more full. . The one thing I always promoted was volunteering . This would have been the biggest obstacle to getting food from the rescue Warehouse out to the greater public.
I have watched food banks throw away donated food that had past it's expiration date for decades. Who takes the liability now?
At our food bank we freeze milk and give it out past the expiration date. It's really shown me how our shopping habits (taking a later date off the shelf) allow for those to have food at food banks. It's difficult to say other than we use judgement and inspect items that come in before handing them out. We're the last to inspect food that goes in their bag, so I'd probably say the food banks. But people should also use their discretion. Although, if people were desperate on the streets they would probably be shifting through a dumpster for this food. Who knows. . .
I think canned foods that get cooked are safe for years, but for the food bank says no. We waste way too much food in this country.@@deannafoster9721
Sign a waiver. Get over it!!! We have to do SOMETHING!
The law will stopped being followed once the first lawsuit is filed
It should go to the politicians who made the law and then they buy full price in date items and donate those to the poor.
Fine and dandy if one enjoys another law telling you what you can and not do with something you own. Now, let's talk about farm to fork; how is that food going to be traced if there is a food related crisis, and will the donors be held responsible?
This is such a good thing, and I wish every state would do it!
On the other hand, I knew California had to have an ulterior motive. If not for the methane gas and the environment, they wouldn’t have cared about decreasing food waste, and feeding the hungry.
I may be stupid, but I don't see the connection here
@@jack-is-back no you are not stupid!
California’s MAIN reason for doing this is because of methane gas, created in landfills from rotted food.
If not for that environmental concern, the waste would continue to go to landfills.
Instead, there is a bit of a “perk” from all this. That same wasted food, that once ended up rotting away in a landfill, is going to feed the hungry.
I’m just saying California’s government is selfish, and their hidden agendas are not necessarily going to do what is best for their people.
@@jack-is-backCalifornia is only doing to this to save the landfills
"SB 1383 is a win win" she didn't mention the Mandated colors or what happens to the old carts
This sadly only encourages employers to pay works less than their worth. Most Walmart employees need food assistance like this
You want the truck driver to deliver it for free after they reject it and not get paid and pay for it .work for big companies that want you to take it there after a rejection of the product and drive across town or city to some small place and not get paid a cent and no load if you refuse. That’s why dumpsters at truck stops are full . The business don’t want it and aren’t buying it . The driver is a lease driver he has no where to put it except trash .
Logic is beyond people. It’s all about feelings.
It's not a donation if businesses are forced to give up their goods
Give up their trash? It's being thrown out
they're not goods if they're going into the garbage otherwise
well, it is donation. Donate = to give something. It doesn't say that donation have to be of free will.
@@RaveMasterr
So we donate money to groceries stores and restaurants for goods and services. We also donate money to the government for taxes. People should get rid of the word “pay” out of the dictionary from now on. Donate sounds to so much better!! Make it feel like we’re all great people helping each other out. When I donate my money at a restaurant, they donate food to me. What a great society everyone donates to each other.
@@georgemaximus694 well, if you want a full definition, as per Oxford language,
donate = give (money or goods) for a good cause
pay = give (someone) money that is due for work done, goods received, or a debt incurred.
So, it seems that you can't use the word donate if you are shopping.
If the state of California eliminated job killing regulations and endorsed good paying jobs, then people wouldn't have to rely on free food handouts.
Too bad the food is TOO expensive in the first place.
I go to local food banks every week and we are given what the stores can't sell because the corporations charge too much for ordinary people to afford.
The CEO of the nonprofit "Feeding San Diego is paid $260,000 per year. that is one heck of a non profit.
I'm not going to lie during the pandemic a lot of people were wasting food such as produce I even saw it in Otay and Tijuana.
Long over due, remember a orange orchard throw away mountains of orange, they wasn't pretty enough for stores, what a waste. I seen Walmart throw out do much good food it's crazy.
Actually, there are laws REQUIRING fruit to be thrown away if it's not pretty enough, or if it's not of mandated minimum size. I dated a girl whose family farms strawberries, and they've had years where over half the crop went to jam and preserves because of state requirements.
Since then, I buy from local farmers when available.
@@SoloPilot6 😔 sad ,my heart broke watching them destroy mountains of oranges, last year, cause weather made them not pretty enough to sell, the oranges was still good, crazy. World, waste . Good food. Cause of looks.
Bad law. the government should not be mandating this, giving away free food. Meanwhile the CEO of Feeding San Diego makes $265,000 per year salary. why not mandate that the CEO work for free? This non profit organization sure pays its CEO very well, and the state is forcing other companies to contribute. What a scam.
Never heard any more nonsense in my life. What are they smoking when they making this law?
Finally!!!!!!!!! Should’ve happened ages ago!! No food should be wasted when so many go hungry- no one should go hungry or be wasteful -great news
This is terrible news. Do you seriously not see the harm this will cause?
The main reason they passed the bill was because of methane gas in landfills? The money grab from the "green new deal" is more important than hungry people?
My theory is this: So you know how the New Deal passed by FDR expanded welfare which fastforward to today is responsible for the most of the crime, poverty and ballooning national deficit? This new bill probably aims to help push us in that direction even further. I know it sounds cruel, but sometimes in the long run helping people hurts them more than if you let them help themself.
This should be a worldwide standard for grocery stores to donate food.
It's their food, they bought it, they own it, the government should never be able to force private business to forfeit property...... the government can buy it from the business if it's so important
And they wonder why companies are leaving California and similar states. More rules = more cost.
They literally just want you to give the food you’re not using to the poor
Costa Mesa sends it green waste and waste food to a aerobic digester in Perris., CA which collects the methane and uses it to run the plant.
It’s sad that mankind needs legislation in order to donate unused food for folks in need.
its sad so many people need handouts.
Reason Donations and Handouts from companies needed because Democratic policies have destroyed California's Economy!
California has the highest GDP in the nation, what are you talking about? Our economic output is nearly twice as great as that of Texas
Economy Output going to continue to Slow Growth by Handouts and Over Regulation!@@frankmacleod2565
where there is rich, there will be poor. trust that this happens anywhere in the world
Stop posting this same lame comment on every piece of news
Donating food is always a bad idea. I stopped volunteering at a food bank for this reason. People get angry when they don't pay for food and often retaliate against you. No good deed goes unpunished.
Now that it's mandatory, who pays for the storage? Who pays to wrap or package the food? Who pays to transport it? Who pays to bring the food to proper temperature?
What are you trying to say? That communism doesn't work? Because if you are, then you're absolutely correct.
This law should be a FEDERAL law so everyone could take advantage of food waste!
...sounds like a good way to increase the cost to companies for additional distribution. Generally throwing the food away in the trash is a lot quicker and sending it to the landfill just requires a little bit larger trash capacity which generally isn't an issue. Saving/donating food requires people at the end of the shift to do all the necessary preparations to get the food in appropriate storage containers at the appropriate temperatures in an appropriate location, and then they have to be shipped in specialized trucks to go to a particular area who then check the food, and then a good amount of that food gets thrown away...
No, make the charities/churches come package the food themselves with volunteers and transport it themselves. It should be a zero cost operation for the food business, which is a profit-making free enterprise entity, not a charity. If there are no volunteers, so be it.
Funny because grocery are being given away why not just sell it cheaper?
I watched a Sam’s Club worker throw out about 10 whole cooked chickens in the trash can. So I asked why. He said that they could not sell them because they expired time stamp after cooking. I had just put on in my cart, before he started throwing them in the trash can. I handed it back and told him that he missed one. He said no he didn’t. It was in my basket. So my next question was, if those are bad how is mine not with the same time stamp? He simply walked away.
Later I told a friend. When there is nothing left to eat, you can find me at Sam’s dumpster, eating hot chicken. 🤤
They are dumping the chickens BEFORE their mandated disposal time.
It's about damn time.
"Donations" are fine, but when mandated 'by law', it sounds a lot like 'redistribution of wealth".
"required" to "donate". Those words don't belong in the same sentance. Rather, it sounds like another unconstitution CA law to solve another problem CA government created.
It’s not a donation if the government requires it. It’s a shakedown.
Waiting to see how this went wrong
are they serious right now? I'm thinking their concern is for a waste of food for the needy byt they are concerend for "methane gas" wth
@@42luke93methane gas is a real problem and part of the climate crisis
While its a good thought, the State didn't pay for these items, they don't belong to California. This is an illegal seizure. If the state wants these items donated then they need to pay someone to organize, collect and distribute them at no expense to the retailers. Or better yet, let the state purchase the items since they've created this mess. That's why 1/3 of the homeless in America live in Commifornia
The businesses get a tax write-off.
In the grand scheme of things this costs the orgs with excess food nothing. I could see it being difficult to keep food that needs freezer and fridge on hand until the food bank trucks arrive though
I read a report that 45% of food in this country gets tossed or wasted . Insane and whats even more sad is how much energy is wasted to grow and transport all that wasted food , fuel , water , man power etc etc etc .....all wasted for nothing
“Eat recycled food, it’s good for the environment and…okay for you”
I see so many problems & loopholes that companies will find ways to skirt this law. Expect food shortages
They have been fear mongering about food shortages forever!
Equivalent to having resturant police to make sure everyone eats their food, because someone else might be hungry. Owners should be able to do as they please with their food. Free market works well.
The CEO of Feeding San Diego, one of the beneficiaries of this law is paid $260,000 per year. That is a heck of a non profit.
Tax exempt status only. Not volunteer slave labor.
I certainly hope this organization prioritizes veterans and citizens over illegal migrants - seems to me the California government made this mandatory to help pay for the illegal migrant expenses. I also hope these businesses are able to write off the donations on their federal and state taxes. Otherwise, it’s nothing more than a government edict being fulfilled at the business’ expense.
I was going to type something close to that but you said it better. ☺️ Thanks ✌🏻
When I did field duty in the Army, I asked why we were throwing out food that could feed people. My Captain said because someone might get sick. I pointed out that it was the same food the troops were being served. He had no comeback for that.
In and of itself, the excessive food waste in this country is a terrible sin!☹️ After so much recent stupidity, California is actually doing something great and wonderful!!!😃👍👍👍
I think it’s a good idea. I do not think however that the state has any authority in this matter. In fact, I know they don’t because they are not granted that authority.
Technically, we allow them to have that authority. It's the catch-22 to the state vs federal argument...give the state enough power, they make strange, barely enforceable laws...for better or worse
But California has a state constitution and that doesn’t grant them the authority to force anyone to donate food.
Thanks to her for admitting buffet food is nasty
I saw a woman collecting 100s of packs of tortillas from the grocery store. I asked she said new law they can’t throw it out.
Horrible law. The unintentional consequences are going to be huge. Prices on food are going to spike for everyone and cause more hunger.
Prices were spiking before this.
If food was reasonably priced it wouldn't sit there until it needs to be thrown out
@@cosmicllama6910Food prices are still cheap as can be.
People are getting told B.S.
Since 1990 food prices went up 3.67x in California. Minimum wage has gone up 3,76x in the same time period.
Yet people don't talk about that second part.
Food is actually cheaper than it was when I was a kid where I live.
The entitled youth just cherry pick facts and only base food prices off the all time historic lows.
That extra food is due to over production and when over production ends due to this stupid law the cost of food is going to skyrocket compared to wage inflation, causing more hunger.
Almost everybody in the comments don't understand economics at all.
It's not a donation if you force people to do it through a Senate bill
The food is out dated so it’s a health risk that’s why it goes it goes in the garbage dump. What’s going to happen to the stores if homeless people start getting sick from that food ??????????????
Finally, something I agree with California on. Let’s feed some folks instead of tossing it.
It’s my food and I’ll do what I want to do with it. I don’t need the government meddling in my business.
Rare California W
Let’s give them capital loss tax write offs too though. That’s an extra step for stores to set things aside, some have big inventory
This is a huge L. Do you seriously not see how this hurts more than it helps?
@@alexmendez3681 please explain, ty
Anything to help the homeless to stay homeless
Mandatory donations are not donations.
“Let’s make everything free” “why is there no more grocery store”
Go a whole 24 hours without eating and your insensitivity will quickly disappear.
Everyone is one debilitated illness or injury away from being disabled. How would you support yourself & have enough to live? Many disabled people go hungry because SSDI & SSI don't pay enough to live.
People are happy to pay for things when they're reasonably priced.
When things are overpriced they will sit there until they get thrown out.
Next in the works, any money you have left over at the end of the month you MUST “Donate” it to the state.
Where they will make sure there is none left at the end of the month.
All this sounds good and all until you start questioning why they're getting rid of the food. This video leaves that out for a reason.
And what happens when some food that is tainted or recalled? this is a stupid idea.
Here comes food poisoning and contamination. 😅
Dunkin Donuts is a big culprit in this. I asked why they throw out food instead of giving it to the homeless, I was told because of liability.
But do you not see the harm there is in this bill?
@@alexmendez3681do you not see the harm in people going starving and homeless while perfectly good food is put to waste and houses sit empty?
Putting money first is everything that's wrong with society and exactly why society will collapse if we don't share like we learned to do in KINDERGARTEN.
"Every man for himself" is making us Rome 2.0