“Feeding people is not a crime.”

[Toon Me Out]

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Food Not Bombs is a loose-knit group of independent collectives, serving free vegan
and vegetarian food to others. Food Not Bombs' ideology is that myriad corporate
and government priorities are skewed to allow hunger to persist in the midst of abundance.
To demonstrate this (and to reduce costs), a large amount of the food served by the group
is surplus food from grocery stores, bakeries and markets that would otherwise go to waste.
This group exhibits a form of franchise activism.

There are more than 400 chapters of Food Not Bombs listed on the organization's website,
with about half the chapters located outside the United States. Food Not Bombs has a
loose structure: every chapter of Food Not Bombs embraces a few basic principles, and
carries out the same sort of action, but every chapter is free to make its own decisions,
based on the needs of its community. Likewise, every chapter of Food Not Bombs operates
on consensus. Besides collecting and distributing food for free, many chapters of Food
Not Bombs are involved in community anti-poverty, anti-war and pro-immigrant organizing,
as well as other political causes related to social justice.

http://www.archive.org/details/SfFoodNotBombsPoliceCrackdown1994 (Caution: violence in this video.)

http://foodnotbombs.net



http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/29/us-egypt-usa-aid-idUSTRE70S0IN20110129

Military at the trough (pie chart--"WHERE YOUR INCOME TAX
MONEY REALLY GOES"): warresisters.org/pages/2009_piechart-BW.pdf
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[uppityperson]

1. Met a couple FnB groups after Katrina. Some had great food, some was pretty bad

Figure out how to get ingredients, find somewhere to cook it, find someone to feed it too. They were nice peoples.

[Starry Messenger]

2. k&r

[Recovered Repug]

3. Wouldn't it depend

on who you feed to people to?

[browntyphoon]

4. if I was homeless I wouldnt give a shit if it was vegan, free range or organic

[Recovered Repug]

8. I was going for a joke and fucked it up.

I meant to say "Wouldn't it depend on who you feed the people to?" I hate when I do that.

[midnight]

5. I love the homes not jails sign....

[gratuitous]

6. Of course it is, you silly hippies

Do you know how much money some corporations make off of feeding people? You start just handing out food to hungry people, and you're cutting into someone's profits. And that's communism! Which is illegal. Or socialistic. Like there's a difference. Anyway, it's a partisan political act, and why should money spent on that be tax deductible? Corporations don't get deductions for spending money. Well, they sort of do, I guess, because any money a corporation spends, by definition comes off their income, so any spending at all is sort of tax deductible. But that's different!

[upi402]

7. Hippies and moms

As time goes by, the righter they were - it turns out.

[Tsiyu]

9. Since I've moved to the mountain

I've done a lot of food service work. Started out as the Assistant to the Food Service Director of MountainTOP and ended up having to take over the management of one of their camp kitchens. That's how I started becoming a "professional" cook.

We ALWAYS gave excess food away. Same deal when I was head baker at a 100 year old bakery...a guy with goats came and got the stale bread once it got green spots and it couldn't be fed to people.

Good hearts ran those places.

Then I went to work at the bakery at McClurg. The first day there, I went home and cried. They were throwing out pan after pan of fat baked chicken breasts (among the pounds and pounds of food they were tossing) and I knew so many hungry mountain people - elderly, poor, kids - who would have been thrilled to have just a taste of some of that chicken.

"Against the rules to give it away" Aramark said.

Today, we have an organization on the mountain that collects excess food from restaurants in the area and distributes it to the needy. Not sure if Aramark ever got empathy, but it makes me feel better knowing that there are those who do care. And when I've dropped off food at some of our nonprofits, it makes me feel better knowing it won't go to waste.

No, it's no crime to feed people.

There was a guy once who said; "Feed My Sheep." I don't believe he was anything special, but I've met a lot of folks who DO think he is special yet who DO think it's a crime to feed those sheep.