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[โ€“] r0ertel@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not disagreeing with the rest of your post, but the grocery store destroying the food is for liability reasons. A local grocery store would throw out expired food that they could not sell and someone dug some cooked rotiserie chicken out of the trash out back, ate it and died from complications due to food poisioning. His family sued AND WON because the grocery store was negligent in not destroying the food, which "lured" the hungry man to eat it since it was still in it's on the shelf packaging and did not say that it was spoiled.

[โ€“] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah but no

I've seen the same shit for shoes, for example, where perfectly good shoes were spraypainted and cut into pieces because reasons

I do agree though that laws should change for this to allow (and require) surplus food to go to food banks at the very least