Current Events > How do you feel about non-poor people going to food banks for free food?

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All the food bank place ask is for a photo ID, that's it. No forms needs to be filled, no proof of living below poverty needed, no other questions asked, no judgement from them and they put somewhere about 26 pounds of food in your trunk.

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Plenty more where it came from, so who cares?

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I doubt it's a real issue.

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It's extremely low quality food (at least in Canada).

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I dont think this is a big enough problem for me to worry about it.

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idgaf i care about my life not theirs.

Does this actually happen?

If it does its shitty as hell but i also doubt its common enough to justify adding comolexity to the food bank process
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That's a bit unfair, IDs are expensive

FantasticAssGas posted...

That's a bit unfair, IDs are expensive

Lmao

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I work a food distribution site every week that opened up since the pandemic started. It's drive-through style, so we have hundreds of cars stop by and pick up food boxes for their families.

We don't even require IDs. They tell us how many are in their family, and how many kids, then as they go down the line, we give them food for that size. We even allow them to pick up for other families that aren't present.

So we can have one car picking up for 3 families of 6 people each. That's a lot of food and there's no way for us to verify if they are actually taking it to other families or keeping it all for themselves.

Our stance on it is that we are just doing our jobs to feed people in need. If someone chooses to lie to get more food, then they clearly need it. It's not our place to judge who is considered "poor" enough to require food assistance.

It's worked pretty well so far. Almost a year of doing this and we haven't seen an increase in multi-family cars, which is what I was expecting once word got out that we didn't verify numbers. I think people are more honest than we sometimes give them credit for.

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Zanzenburger posted...

Our stance on it is that we are just doing our jobs to feed people in need. If someone chooses to lie to get more food, then they clearly need it. It's not our place to judge who is considered "poor" enough to require food assistance.

That is such an awesome sentiment
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As long as there's no one in need missing out, I don't kare.

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The people working it probably take all the good stuff anyway

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g980 posted...

Does this actually happen?

If it does its shitty as hell but i also doubt its common enough to justify adding comolexity to the food bank process

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why would it bother me? *shrugs*

Are you poor or non-poor?

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Zanzenburger posted...

Our stance on it is that we are just doing our jobs to feed people in need. If someone chooses to lie to get more food, then they clearly need it. It's not our place to judge who is considered "poor" enough to require food assistance.

this is absolutely the mentality of every hurricane recovery situation as well
i've worked situations where people have pulled up to get supplies, we go to their trunk and it's already got toilet paper/waterbottles/etc in it from a previous stop
you don't get into it with them, you don't ask questions, you don't judge
you give them what they say they need and you move on to the next car

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The last food bank I saw had bread a week past the sell-by date. It's stuff the grocery stores dumped off.

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