This is a real feel good story, the food police had to step in, apparently to make sure those hungry hungry homeless weren't getting too much salt or fat.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03/...-the-homeless/

City homeless shelters are for homeless fish. Ballin' homeless go to the private shelters.

****ing retards in NYC

I'm pretty sure this follows something very similar done in Philadelphia just a few weeks before. Nutter (iirc, the mayor of Philly) has made it illegal to feed the homeless in the hopes that that would make the government's inability to deal with this problem harder to see.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Bloomberg is a 5th degree Illuminatus Malthusian. Their mandate is to reduce the "surplus population" of "useless eaters." This edict is just the beginning.

and yet these idiots don't ban wine gnats, the real problem.

It's been like that in Philly for awhile. Several years ago I knew a guy who waited tables at Fogo de Chao, the Brazilian steakhouse with tableside meat service. My buddy told me that for the longest time the management donated the day's leftover food to a nearby homeless shelter, but the city stepped in and made them stop. The reasoning had something to do with food contamination fears. Now they throw a ****-ton of food away every night.

So... I guess it's better to toss out leftover filet mingon instead of giving it to a hungry person.

Logic fail IMHO.

If people could get food from charities and food donors, we wouldn't need as much welfare or food stamps... That would be a disaster.

Pretty insane that more people aren't talking about this, but I guess this is America, people are used to the homeless being treated like absolute dirt, so nothing new here, move along.

Bloomberg bans food donations in order to increase Teh Socialismz? Is that really your argument?

Cause garbage dumpsters are much better to fish out leftovers vs getting them fresh...what a bunch of bs!

Well, when a dude gets sick from eating out of a dumpster he can't sue the original owner of the food. We must protect ourselves from those litigious bums.