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Originally Posted by Xist

I do not know about this source and when I looked for a better one I only found other unfamiliar sites, but this article says they are taking food that is about to expire, turning it into pellets called "Dog food" and offering it to anyone that does not feel like starving today: Dystopian school dinners: Brazilian city to feed poor pupils pellets nicknamed

Didn't read the article, but I'm all for it anyhow. People aren't entitled to other people's resources. That said, there is a lot of food waste, and instead of wasting it, it can feed the undernourished. A good community won't let people starve to death regardless of what government programs exist.

Expiring food is mostly a myth. Food is generally safe to eat, it's just that the taste degrades.

Most all of the food I ate in prison was expired. On Christmas day I was delighted to eat a Häagen-Dazs ice cream. It was 3 months expired, but a very nice treat compared to the expired "beef" stroganoff we seemed to constantly consume.

Dignity is not handed out, it is taken and earned.