Text of Mandatory Food Rescue Donation Act- For Business Establishments

Bill Number :

Title: Mandatory Food Rescue Donation Act- For  Business  Establishments

Executive Summary:
 Because One of every 7 people in the United States is food insecure,a condition marked by not knowing when, or if, they will receive their next meal, and because  food establishments throw away over 40% of edible food that passes through their systems merely because it is not fresh, not bad, just not fresh.

This bill would marry two needs:

1. Feeding our hungry.

 2.Protecting our environment from the massive amounts of uneaten food, hundreds of billions of pounds each year that wind up polluting our landfills, decomposing into methane gas a major source of global warming.



Bill Text

Any establishment in which food sales make up more than 30% of gross sales will be required to install a special food rescue donation freezer in their establishment. Each day any food that is deemed no longer appropriate for sale but is still  edible would be required to be f frozen in freezer instead of tossing it in dumpsters. Each day, or whenever freezer is full, same establishments will be required to have a working arrangement in advance with local food pantries or will be free to call any pantry on demand to pick up contents of freezer. Food pantry will take all responsibility for distributing food to the hungry.



Bill sponsors footnote: This bill intent is to eradicate  hunger in the United States by using the food we already have, reclaiming it in a responsible way.
 It's intent is also to protect our environment by limiting the amount of edible food that is allowed to be thrown into our landfills decomposing into methane gas a major source of global warming

I Kathleen Mitro agree to sponsor this Bill using my real name and picture for the life of this Bill.

I have searched through other citizens proposed bills to insure I am not replicating others efforts.

I genuinely have a proposal for something new
The funding source for this legislation will come from said freezer being recognized as a recycle bin and as such the financial responsibility of the business establishment to purchase.
The financial responsibility of picking up and distributing the food will fall to the food pantry that takes possession of it.



Kathy Mitro

2043 South Atlantic Avenue

#708

Daytona Beach, Florida

32118

Text for Bill for Mandatory Food Rescue Donation

Bill Number :

Title: Mandatory Food Rescue Donation Act- For large food establishments

Executive Summary: Because 1 in every 7 people in the United States are food insecure, that is not knowing when, or if they will receive their next meal, and because large food establishments thrown away over 40% of edible food that passes through their systems merely because it is not fresh, (not bad), just not fresh. This bill would marry two needs.

1. Feeding our hungry and protecting our environment from the massive amounts of uneaten food, hundreds of billions of pounds each year that wind up polluting our landfills, decomposing into methane gas a major source of global warming.



Bill Text

Any food establishment in which food sales make up more than 30% of their total sales will be required to install a special food rescue donation freeze in their establishment. Each day any food that is deemed no longer appropriate for sale but is still perfectly edible must be fast frozen in freezer instead of tossing it in dumpsters. Each day same establishments will either have a working arrangement in advance with a local food pantry, or will be free to call any pantry on demand to pick up contents of freezer. Food pantry will take all responsibility for collecting and distributing food to the hungry.



Bill sponsors footnote: This bills intent is to totally eradicate all hunger in the United States by using the food we already have, by recycling it in a responsible way.

I Kathleen Mitro agree to sponsor this Bill using my real name and picture for the life of this Bill.

I have searched through other citizens proposed bills to make sure I am not replicating others efforts.

I genuinely have a proposal for something new

The source for the funding for this legislation will come from:
1. Said freezer being a recycle bin and as such the responsibility of the food establishment to purchase.
2.The financial responsibility of picking up and distributing the food will fall to the food pantry that takes possession of it.



Kathy Mitro

2043 South Atlantic Avenue

We Need High Quality Food Donations Not Just Day Old Pastries

Most food donations from food establishment consist mainly of non perishable items such as bread and pastry. People in starvation mode need protein and produce. The very foods they desperately need are tossed away for fear of spoilage. A simple solution to this is to require each large food establishment to have a special food freezer that all spoilable foods that are destined for the garbage bin simply because they are not "fresh" mind you not bad simply not fresh, be placed in the freezer and frozen on the spot. Thus frozen this food has an incredible life span before it spoils. Then food pantries would be called in to take charge of the distribution of this food in these freezers.. This type of recycling will also save our environment from the incredible burden that is placed on it,by the decomposition of this tremendous amount of food producing an enormous amount of methane gas, a main component of global warming.
So simple,Freeze instead of toss, call in the food pantries to distribute.
This will completely eradicate all hunger in the U.S. We can then use the money freed up from using the food we already have instead of buying new food (like most stores ask ,would you like to donate a dollar to feed the hungry, while they are throwing away over one third of all the food that goes thru their systems) to pay for food to be sent abroad.

Stanley Bronstein Interviews Kathy Mitro

John Steinbeck - Brilliant Humanitarian

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed

to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all.

Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to

take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at

twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men

with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the

crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million

people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden

mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for

fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump

potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the

hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them,

and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow

here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that

topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows,

the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra

must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners

must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food

must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for

potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in

rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed.

And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the

screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime,

watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in

the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the

hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes

of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the

vintage.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

There is No Right Way to Give out Food, There is only Giving out all the Food You Can

The measure of the greatness of any nation is in how the poorest of that nation are treated.
The poor are truly people in crisis.
 By taking away means after means of survival for people that are in a desperate situation, we are only making the situation worse.
 Some make think to put these people out of one's sight improves their own life but in fact it cannot. Only actions taken in love not fear can improve the quality of life for everyone.
We must look to decriminalize poverty and not to shoulder the poor with more and more decreasing quality of life.
We must let those that want to share food and love, with people that need love and food, to share it. To  embrace this sharing  as a good thing.
You cannot cut government aid  to the hungry, then declare it a criminal action for those with the resources to provide food to provide it.
And you cannot tell people who are starving that  they cannot ask for money for food when they have no other means to obtain food.
What you are offering these people is equivalent to a death sentence, and I can assure cutting off every means of survival for any individual can only lead to bad never good.
Reach out your hand to help up, not to strike down and when it is your hand that needs help it will be given to you in exact accordance to what you have given others.
That is Karma.

Feeding Our Hungry Against the Law - A 2015 Tragedy

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/?s=feeding+the+homeless Feeding The Homeless BANNED In Major Cities All Over America What would you do if you came across someone on the street that had not had anything to eat for several days? Would you give that person some food? Well, the next time you get that impulse you might want to check if it is still legal to feed the homeless where you live. Sadly, feeding the homeless has been banned in major cities all over America. Other cities that have not banned it outright have put so many requirements on those that want to feed the homeless (acquiring expensive permits, taking food preparation courses, etc.) that feeding the homeless has become “out of reach” for most average people. Some cities are doing these things because they are concerned about the “health risks” of the food being distributed by ordinary “do-gooders”. Other cities are passing these laws because they do not want homeless people congregating in city centers where they know that they will be fed. But at a time when poverty and government dependence are soaring to unprecedented levels, is it really a good idea to ban people from helping those that are hurting? This is just another example that shows that our country is being taken over by control freaks. There seems to be this idea out there that it is the job of the government to take care of everyone and that nobody else should even try. But do we really want to have a nation where you have to get the permission of the government before you do good to your fellow man? It isn’t as if the government has “rescued” these homeless people. Homeless shelters all over the nation are turning people away each night because they have no more room. There are many homeless people that are lucky just to make it through each night alive during the winter. Sometimes a well-timed sandwich or a cup of warm soup can make a world of difference for a homeless person. But many U.S. cities have decided that feeding the homeless is such a threat that they had better devote law enforcement resources to making sure that it doesn’t happen. This is so twisted. In America today, you need a “permit” to do almost anything. We are supposed to be a land of liberty and freedom, but these days government bureaucrats have turned our rights into “privileges” that they can revoke at any time. The following are some of the major U.S. cities that have attempted to ban feeding the homeless…. Philadelphia Mayor Nutter recently banned feeding homeless people in many parts of Philadelphia where homeless people are known to congregate…. Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has announced a ban on the feeding of large numbers of homeless and hungry people at sites on and near the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Mayor Nutter is imposing the ban on all outdoor feedings of large numbers of people on city parkland, including Love Park and the Ben Franklin Parkway, where it is not uncommon for outreach groups to offer free food. Nutter says the feedings lack both sanitary conditions and dignity. Orlando Last June, a group of activists down in Orlando, Florida were arrested by police for feeding the homeless in defiance of a city ordinance…. Over the past week, twelve members of food activist group Food Not Bombs have been arrested in Orlando for giving free food to groups of homeless people in a downtown park. They were acting in defiance of a controversial city ordinance that mandates permits for groups distributing food to large groups in parks within two miles of City Hall. Each group is allowed only two permits per park per year; Food Not Bombs has already exceeded their limit. They set up their meatless buffet in Lake Eola knowing that they would likely be arrested as a result. Houston Down in Houston, a group of Christians was recently banned from distributing food to the homeless, and they were told that they probably would not be granted a permit to do so in the future even if they applied for one…. Bobby and Amanda Herring spent more than a year providing food to homeless people in downtown Houston every day. They fed them, left behind no trash and doled out warm meals peacefully without a single crime being committed, Bobby Herring said. That ended two weeks ago when the city shut down their “Feed a Friend” effort for lack of a permit. And city officials say the couple most likely will not be able to obtain one. “We don’t really know what they want, we just think that they don’t want us down there feeding people,” said Bobby Herring, a Christian rapper who goes by the stage name Tre9. Dallas Dallas has also adopted a law which greatly restricts the ability of individuals and ministries to feed the homeless…. A Dallas-area ministry is suing the city over a food ordinance that restricts the group from giving meals to the homeless. Courts dismissed Dallas’ request for a summary judgment last week, saying the case, brought up by pastor Don Hart (in video above) may indeed be a violation of free exercise of religion, as protected by the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the blog Religion Clause reported. In the court filing, the ministry leaders argue that their Christian faith requires them to share meals with the homeless (Jesus did!) and that the requirement that even churches and charities provide toilets, sinks, trained staff and consent of the city keeps them from doing so. Las Vegas A few years ago, Las Vegas became the first major U.S. city to specifically pass a law banning the feeding of homeless people…. Las Vegas, whose homeless population has doubled in the past decade to about 12,000 people in and around the city, joins several other cities across the country that have adopted or considered ordinances limiting the distribution of charitable meals in parks. Most have restricted the time and place of such handouts, hoping to discourage homeless people from congregating and, in the view of officials, ruining efforts to beautify downtowns and neighborhoods. But the Las Vegas ordinance is believed to be the first to explicitly make it an offense to feed “the indigent.” That law has since been blocked by a federal judge, and since then many U.S. cities have been very careful not to mention “the indigent” or “the homeless” by name in the laws they pass that are intended to ban feeding the homeless. New York City New York City has banned all food donations to government-run homeless shelters because the bureaucrats there are concerned that the donated food will not be “nutritious” enough. Yes, this is really true. The following is from a recent Fox News article…. The Bloomberg administration is now taking the term “food police” to new depths, blocking food donations to all government-run facilities that serve the city’s homeless. In conjunction with a mayoral task force and the Health Department, the Department of Homeless Services recently started enforcing new nutritional rules for food served at city shelters. Since DHS can’t assess the nutritional content of donated food, shelters have to turn away good Samaritans. Can you believe that? The bureaucrats are officially out of control. In America today, it seems like almost everything is illegal. One church down in Louisiana was recently ordered to stop giving out water because it did not have a government permit. Well, I don’t know about you, but I sure am going to give a cup of cold water to someone if they need it whether I have a permit or not. It is as if common sense has totally gone out the window in this nation. Over in New Hampshire, a woman is being sued for planting flowers in her own front yard. This is the kind of thing that makes me glad that I have moved to a much more rural location. People in the country tend to be much more relaxed. Sadly, those that love to micro-manage others continue to get the upper hand in America. Back in January, 40,000 new laws went into effect all over America. The politicians continue to hit us with wave after wave of regulations and laws with no end in sight. All of this is making America a very unpleasant place in which to live. http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/?s=feeding+the+homeless

1/3 Of All Food Produced Each Day is Thrown Away Instead of Being Donated to the Hungry

People are hungry and starving in the United States.
We are throwing away over 1/3 of all food produced each day, and creating anti-compassion, anti-empathy laws that boggle each loving person's soul.
It is time for mandatory food rescue, it is time for mandatory food give out stations
It is time to make it illegal not to share food with the hungry. With this new Law we can totally eradicate all hunger in the United States within 24 hours of it being mandated.
With this free up of money now spent to feed our hungry ( yes you heard right this solution costs absolutely Nothing, no money), we can take the money we are spending on feeding our hungry and spend it around the world to help the world eradicate all hunger.
This is too easy and too simple of a solution to overlook.
It's simplicity is sheer beauty.
What can you do?