LogFAQs > #950767851

More proof that we have enough food to go around, most of it just gets wasted.

"but they have to worry about liability!" - these people are eating trash. Once it hits the dumpster, it shouldn't be the store's problem any more. That's why dumpster divers started dumpster diving - to make use of perfectly fine food or products that were being thrown away, to get use out of something deemed useless and without worth. If nothing else, to roll the dice to see if they can prevent unnecessary waste.

Now it's not even a grey area to take something deemed trash. Electronics are smashed so no-one can use them, even if they're perfectly fine. Clothes are cut into ribbons. Dumpsters are padlocked so no-one can get into them. Dumpster diving went from being a grey area to being outright criminalized.

This store wasn't getting any use out of that food. Granted, the food was at risk of being spoiled. But once they throw it out, they shouldn't have any say in what happens to it. They don't benefit from it in any way whether someone takes it out of a dumpster or whether it's taken to the dump. And in return, they shouldn't be considered liable for any misfortune that comes from someone eating some spoiled meat out of a dumpster.

It's a better arrangement than pouring bleach over salvageable food to deter people, or from calling the fucking police to defend a dumpster of viable food that they deemed worthless by disposing of it.

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