Hi Luella,

This is on the top of my list of pet peeves. I read this whole story. In some companies it is considered a crime to go dumpster diving for food that has been thrown out. In the U.S., if you work in a restaurant and you are caught taken food that is headed for the dumpster you can be fired immediately. In every restaurant that I worked in, fifty to a hundred pounds of food were thrown in the dumpster at the end of the night. At KFC, I would have to dump a minimum of 12 whole chickens a night. There is such an easy solution to this problem that would save this food and help more people around the world so that we could iliminate hunger in the world today. Dehydration. The machines are nuch less expensive then they were when they were first introduced and so easy to use. If a farmer grows more then he can ship, he can set up an area where the excess crops can be processed and the fruits or vegetables will have a shelf life of ten years or more. Very few restaurants will donate their left over food to food pantries simply because they don't want to be bothered. In the various restaurants that I worked at, I would take home the chicken or vegetables, and what we did not use I would share with neighbors that could use it. In Italy and California, at the end of tomatoe season, people will gather in the streets for a huge Food Fight. Tons of tomatoes being wasted for fun. That is not considered a criminal act. How many more people have to die of starvation before our governments wake up? Dehydrate, Feeze Dry, there are several solutions that can be adopted to turn this trend around, and they are not costly, plus they would improve the profit margin as well.

GOD BLESS YOU

~Mike~

http://www.countryvalues65.com/alienagenda

This is why I have had so many problems over the years. If I see that something is not right or that we are being lied to, I speak up. Too many people are content to just go along with the crowd and not cause any problems. I would rather Rock the Boat.

As far as I know, there are no regulations regarding the food industry, therefore, left over foods can be discarded at will. Restaurants price their meals allowing for the amount of food that they anticipate wasting at the end of the night. Food venders are probably the worse offenders. When you go to a State fair or a sports event, the price you pay for the food is way out of range. I worked at a sports event one time setting up tents. It was a three day event. When the event was finished I signed on to help take the tents down. On our hour hour lunch break, I and a friend of mine walked around the grounds where the venders had been set up. The venders left behind food that they did not use. Ten pound bags of potatoes, ten pound bags of onions, loafs of bread, all perfectly good items. Several of the workers had their own cars and we told them about our find. They loaded up on the goods. I had to take a bus back to town, because no one had room to take me back to town. I grabbed a ten pound bag of onions, and a couple of packages of hot dogs. That is all that I got. Venders at sports events cook their hot dogs, put them in aluminum bags, seal the bags and put them under the heat lamps. Pizza venders do the same and put the pizza in cardboard containers. They basically start cooking an hour before the doors open and continue until the event is over. Baked potatoes, french fries, sausage, whatever. When the event is finished each vender loads up trash bags full of good food and dumps it in the huge dumpster outside the buildings. This is a practice that is carried on every day of the week, so the actual tonage of waste is much higher then the estimate. But the crime is dumpster diving to stay alive. I think that it is time to re write some laws.

GOD BLESS YOU

~Mike~

http://www.countryvalues65.com/alienagenda

Maybe protein cubes may be the answer