MITRO MANDATORY FOOD RESCUE DONATION ACT

One in 7 people in the United States are hungry each day.

Hunger is defined as the uneasy or painful sensation caused by want of food and the exhausted condition that goes with it.

In 1997 The Department of Agriculture estimated that 96.4 billion pounds of the 356 billion pounds of edible food produced was never eaten.

Since 1997 the number of billions of pounds of thrown away food has climbed even higher.

This food is put into landfills where it decomposes producing methane gas, a major source of greenhouse gases.

We can totally eradicate hunger in the United States by redirecting this food  into a hungry mouth instead.

 A person totally impoverished is a person in crisis.

Humanitarian societies  take care of people in crisis regardless of how that crisis came about.

We must  feed our impoverished citizens.

We can feed them at no cost.

We must pass laws that mandate edible food from large food establishments that is destined for the dumpster for dint of simply not being "fresh", (not bad), just not appropriate for full price sale, be donated to share with the hungry.

This is recycling at it's best.

We have now eradicated hunger and we have saved our environment.

Help us pass this law

THE MITRO MANDATORY FOOD RESCUE DONATION ACT

The simplicity of this is sheer beauty.


Kathy Mitro   kathymitro@yahoo.com
www.mitrofineart.com

Mandatory Health Insurance, How Did This Come First Before Mandatory Food and Shelter?

Viewing a tweet on twitter about food and shelter for all, it hits me, the big problem I have with Mandatory Health Care or Obamacare.
Doing much work with the homeless and the hungry, I realize that without food and shelter there can be no health.
So are we not putting the cart before the horse making it mandatory for each of our citizens to protect ourselves with medical insurance but not making it mandatory to feed ourselves, and not making it mandatory to provide ourselves with shelter.
Seems a little silly when we put it this way doesn't it.
The government says if you can't pay for insurance we will provide it.
Why is the government not saying if you can't pay for food we will provide it?
Why is the government not saying if you can't pay for shelter we will provide it?
If the government truly wants us to be healthy, to go so far as to mandate that all citizens must have health insurance, why are they not stepping in with the ultimate health insurance, which would be food and shelter for all?

Bunny Rabbit on a Mission to End Hunger

Do what we can about hunger at whatever level we are we currently at in life.

The following is correspondence between a friend of mine in Africa and myself. It answers the question of "What can I do to end hunger, I am just one tiny person in the Universe"? -------------------- Hi Kathy, I hope you're good.I have keen interest to stay in touch and learn from you ideas that can change Africa.I come from a land locked country with full of hunger and poverty plus malnutrition among children. I am a change agent who mostly volunteer in rural communities since I do not have a job country hence I need to sharpen my skills in building my career at the same time touching people's lives with relevant interventions. It is of my great understanding that you work at policy level,however,prior to your level I am sure you have done some ground work that can be helpful in my country context particularly in rural setting for the rural poor. With thanks!! Dear ...... I like you started at ground zero with my hunger activism. I was without a job and instead of sitting around doing nothing I reached out and did whatever I could do for those that had less than I, much as you are doing now by volunteering in rural communities. There is much that needs to be change in America with regard to our food supply and getting food to those in need, many many people in America are hungry and this should not be. The answer to solving hunger in Africa and America has to be solved using completely different methods but with the same goal, to end hunger all hunger over the entire planet. Each country must look around with their own eyes in their own country, identify the reasons for hunger and identify what solutions will bring the most food to the most people with the least amount of monetary input. Tenacity gets the job done, always always looking for solutions, never listening to those who say it cannot be done, and avoiding those who simply have no compassion for the pain of their fellow human beings. As you help others you will find help comes your own way in regard to your job situation. That is the way of the universe, the energy you put out will return to you in exact proportion and kind.Like attracts like. Yours is a wonderful spirit it is the spirit of love and compassion. I have been working for years on the political level and just keep putting out the same message and that is, hunger is unconscionable and it is time for it simply not exist anymore. I will insert a link to my political blog here as you might find it interesting. Blessings Kathy

Teach a Child To Bully a Seagull And We Can Kiss World Peace Goodbye

Making sense of the senseless:
Teach a child to bully a seagull and you can kiss world peace goodbye
With the Boston bombing so fresh in mind many people are trying to make sense of what a person can get out of inflicting hurt and horror on such an incredible scale.
inflicting hurt and horror on such an incredible scale.
 The answer lies in our children.
In order to find peace we must teach our children that kindness is the only way.
I live on the beach and have my heart broken each day by watching  innocent gentle seagulls set upon by  bullies.
I have watched adults teach their small children, here watch what I do and then you do it, and
proceed to demonstrate when they run into a group of resting birds, screaming, how the birds all
rise as one terror stricken unit and flee to safety.
Then I watch the child they have taught imitate the exact same action.
 I have been told by these people they are playing with the birds, it is fun for the birds too.
I have read where pedophiles have the exact same justifications of their horrific abuse of their young victims.
No terror from a bully is never fun, at least not for the victim.
 Let us teach our children terror is never justified and never rewarding or fun.
The point I am making here is not to defend seagulls ( although I am doing that also), but to show how by allowing and condoning and encouraging  small cruel behavior to any smaller animal by a child, leads to a child that will also find it perfectly acceptable to bully a smaller child in school, and then to bully a less powerful adult when they become adults.
You never see a parent foolish enough to teach a child to threaten an alligator.
The Boston Bombers grew from such beginnings where cruelty was okay.
Peace comes from within, that is why violence can never be controlled by limiting weapons.
Weapons are the effect, not the cause of violence .
 Take away the gun,and a violent person will use a knife.
Why?
Because the weapon  is only a tool the individual uses to play out the the violence within.
The individual is the cause.
Violence is taught and learned .
Turn on your television and you will see that 95% of all shows are murder and violence.
 Where is the line between make believe and reality drawn?
Why is it fun for people to  view shows on murder, rape and torture on a daily basis.
To see them as  a dandy way to wile away the afternoon, immersing themselves in hour after hour of viewing  horror as a casual form of entertainment.
As an adult you might (and even that is stretching it) be able to discern the difference but can a small developing mind have difficulty in seeing when it's on T.V. it's alright, but when you act it out in real life it's wrong 
If you don't want the violence to show up in real life why would you ever view the horror of violence
as fascinating when you watch it on T.V.
So yes teach a child to bully a seagull and you can kiss world peace goodby because it is from
the small acts of cruelty that the large acts of atrocity grow.
Teach your child when  the choice is between cruelty or kindness, always always choose the kindness.
When each of us choose kindness over cruelty,World Peace will reign.
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ISIS is the Bitterest of Fruit From a Damaged Root

Society grows people.
If our society is damaged can we grow good people?
The answer to that is obviously yes.
There are many many good even really superb people that can come out of a damaged society.
If our society is damaged can we grow bad people?
The answer to that is also obvious, yes as in the case with ISIS
Much rhetoric is being thrown around as what we can do to destroy ISIS and their cruelty, by this they mean wipe them out, kill them.
 But then what?
You have only destroyed the bitter fruit and not addressed at all the damaged plant that is growing them.
Yes growing them.
Think through then again to how many children are born each day into the same society that produced their forefathers .
How can we ever think, when we have not addressed the cause for such fruit, that we will not produce an even perhaps bigger crop of the the same kind of  fruit when it is coming from the same tree.
As much as people want to rail out and shout kill them we must realize we are only killing the fruit of the tree not the the tree.
Now am I saying to kill the tree?
 No absolutely not,in fact each and every one of us comprises the tree which is society.
 Some of the most eloquent speakers of our times have said it far better than I could hope to "Darkness does not destroy darkness only light does that."
Now is the light I am speaking of turning the other cheek or trying to reform or change the radical extremists in ISIS?
No the die is already cast in grown individuals, the answer lies always in the children.
Expose our children to a kinder world where there is no hunger and we will change the root of the tree and thus the vine bearing the fruit and thus the fruit produced.
There are three essentials to life and they are food, water and oxygen.
Most of the time the last two are met easily but in the case of the third, food, there is great suffering and pain and death.

This is a very difficult picture to look at it is of a small child in Africa laying in a field slowly starving to death while a vulture waits for his imminent  death so he might devour the child.
Now we with enough money to see this picture on our computers can turn it off.
We can avoid our eyes and say we do not want to see it.
We can put it out of our minds and forget it.
But what of the people that are witnesses to this kind of sight on a day to day basis.
They cannot avert their eyes. They cannot turn it off.
Can we not see where a society that lets this happen is growing anger at affluent well fed citizens that they feel are turning their eyes and their help from them.
Could this not be construed as no empathy for my pain so I will now make you hurt.
I am in no way saying actions taken to hurt in revenge or for other reasons are right.
 In fact they are dead wrong and that is the equal reactions on both ends.
 I am in no way saying to be affluent and well fed is wrong.
 In fact it is very right.
What is wrong and is damaging our society is that those that have so much are not reaching out their hand to help those that are in such pain and suffering.

I firmly believe that if we all reach out to understand where such darkness is coming from and throw in light we will slowly turn our world much much brighter.
It is time now in 2015 to make a vow, not one more death from starvation,
Not one more person twisting in the agony of hunger.
Food for all regardless of borders.
Those that have been hurt the worst turn out to the be the biggest hurters of all when it is in their power to do so.
 A gift of food to even the darkest of minds might tip the scale from hatred to gratitude.
 It has always been my greatest wish to imagine planes flying not to drop bombs but to drop food.
I know it happens I would just like to imagine it happening everywhere all the time.
Food for all might not stop all war, but it would be a very very good start.

France to force big supermarkets to give away unsold food to charity

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/22/france-to-force-big-supermarkets-to-give-away-unsold-food-to-charity

The United States needs to be next in line.

Text of Mandatory Food Rescue Donation Act

Text of Mandatory Food Rescue Donation Act Bill

Bill Number :

Title: Mandatory Food Rescue Donation Act
Because One out 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 20% of gross sales will be required to install a special food rescue donation freezer in their establishment. Each day all food that is deemed no longer  appropriate for sale but is
1. Still edible but no longer fresh.
2. On the cusp of it's expiration date
3. Whose sell by date is passed but by virtue of it's being deemed safe to consume after it's sell by date is passed
Would be required to be frozen in above said freezer.
Each day, or whenever freezer is full, same establishments will be required to either have a working arrangement in advance with a local food pantry or be free to call any food pantry that is in possession of a matching donation freezer 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's intent is to eradicate hunger in the United States by using the food we have already produced, reclaiming it in a responsible way from endangering our fragile ecosystem.
It's intent is 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 and to feed our hungry by using what we already have, that no longer has any monetary value for sale.It is to respect animals whose lives were sacrificed to feed others from being callously thrown away before fulfilling the reason for their sacrifice which was to feed

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 of funding 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

386-795-9643

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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?

Madatory Food Donation From All Food Establishment

Over 1/3 of all edible food produced in the United States is thrown away each and every day from Food Establishments. We must have laws passed making it Mandatory NOT Voluntary to donate this food to be shared with people in need of it.

FOOD IS A RIGHT, NOT A PRIVILEGE DAY

http://www.foodnotbombs.net/food_is_a_right.html

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FOOD IS A RIGHT, NOT A PRIVILEGE

Sharing food with the hungry is an unregulated act of kindness.
End all efforts to stop people from feeding the hungry.
Rescind all laws restricting compassion.

“THERE IS NO RIGHT WAY TO GIVE OUT FOOD, THERE IS ONLY GIVING OUT ALL THE FOOD YOU CAN”
- Kathy Mitro who posted a petition on line after being threatened with arrest for sharing food in Daytona Beach. Florida in January 2012

On Sunday April 1st, we are proposing that people all over the world consider sharing free meals in celebration our right to food and participate in our campaign for an end to laws restricting acts of compassion. Celebrate our right to feed the hungry with music, theater, and the sharing of food.

It has been distressing to receive so many reports in the past few weeks of people being threatened with arrest or cities adopting new laws limiting people’s right to share free food with the public. People in England, California, Texas, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Florida contacted Food Not Bombs about having been threatened with arrest. Others report that their local governments are considering laws to limit acts of compassion.

This new wave of threats is happening as half of all Americans are struggling to survive. The Department of Agriculture’s February report shows that 46,286,294 people relied on food stamps in November of 2011. People have been arriving at Food Not Bombs meals claiming they had not eaten in four days because other food programs had exhausted their resources. The Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that 1 in 7 people or 925 million people world wide went hungry in 2010. We are announcing a global campaign to recognize that sharing food with the hungry is an unregulated activity of compassion and should not be interfered with by the authorities.

Our movement started when the “Diggers” occupied St George’s Hill in Surrey, England on April 1, 1649 in a protest for the right of landless people to feed themselves. We are announcing our global campaign for the right of all people to share food with the hungry without regulation on the anniversary of the first act of the peaceful resistance by the “Diggers” of St George’s Hill.

The public is encouraged to share meals with their community on Sunday, April 1, 2012 in defiance of government’s efforts to restrict acts of compassion. Please email our office so we can post your event on our website.

FOOD IS A RIGHT NOT A PRIVILEGE – End all efforts to stop people from feeding the hungry
http://www.foodnotbombs.net/food_is_a_right.html

FOOD IS A RIGHT NOT A PRIVILEGE – End all efforts to stop people from feeding the hungry onblog.foodnotbombs.net
http://blog.foodnotbombs.net/food-is-a-right-not-a-privilege-end-all-efforts-to-stop-people-from-feeding-the-hungry/

ENDORSED BY

Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed
Noam Chomsky, author and professor M.I.T.
Eric Holt-Giménez, Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
Bill McKibben, author Deep Economy
David Barsamian, founder and director of Alternative Radio
David Rovics,musician, USA
Kevin Devine, musician, Brooklyn, NY
Kathy Kelly, Co-coordinator, Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Michael Stoops, National Coalition for the Homeless
Kathy Mitro, Daytona Beach. Florida
Keith McHenry, Co-founder of the Food Not Bombs Movement

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PLEASE ENDORSE THIS CAMPAIGN
Please consider endorsing this nonviolent campaign. Email us you name, position and city or if your group is endorsing the name of your organization and city. Seek to overturn all local laws restricting the sharing of food.
Thanks so much.

menu@foodnotbombs.net

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
The current cities actively seeking to restrict the sharing of food are Los Angeles, Daytona Beach,Tampa, St Petersburg, Dallas, Myrtle Beach, Philadelphia.

A PLACE AT THE TABLE
http://www.foodnotbombs.net/A_Place_at_the_Table.pdf

Food is a Right Jean Ziegler
http://www.righttofood.org/

Hunger Is a ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’, says Jean Ziegler
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Hunger-Is-a-Weapon-of-Mas-by-Siv-O-Neall-120120-44.html

SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: NUMBER OF PERSONS PARTICIPATING
http://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/29snapcurrpp.htm

2012 World Hunger and Poverty Facts and Statistics Food and Agriculture Organization
http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world 20hunger facts 202002.htm

Anti-Poverty Groups Alarmed At Obama Budget
http://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133756360/Anti-Poverty-Groups-Alarmed-At-Obama-Budget

PETITIONS
If you have been threatened with arrest for sharing food please contact us. menu@foodnotbombs.net
Speaker of the House: Change the laws that criminalize sharing food with
hungry individuals
http://www.change.org/petitions/the-president-of-the-united-states-change-the-laws-that-criminalize-sharing-food-with-hungry-individuals

Allow Food Not Bombs Myrtle Beach to Feed the
Hungry
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/allow-food-not-bombs-myrtle-beach-to-feed-people/

The City of Dallas: Stop
threatening people for feeding the homeless
http://www.change.org/petitions/the-city-of-dallas-stop-threatening-people-for-feeding-the-homeless

NEW REPORTS ON EFFORTS TO LIMIT THE SHARING OF MEALS

PHILADELPHIA
Philadelphia may start requiring permits for those who feed the homeless
February 10, 2012
http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/health-science-multimedia/item/33820-philadelphia-may-start-requiring-permits-for-those-who-feed-the-homeless

Proposed rules for feeding homeless on Parkway assailed February 9, 2012
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/139063949.html

Proposed rules for feeding homeless on Parkway assailed
http://articles.philly.com/2012-02-09/news/31042407_1_regulation-bad-policy-shelters

Ronnie Polaneczky: Dinner for the homeless, with a side of dignity
http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/ronnie_polaneczky/20120214_Ronnie_Polaneczky__Dinner_for_the_homeless__with_a_side_of_dignity.html

Let Donald F. Schwarz, know there should be no restrictions to the sharing of food in Philadelphia

Donald F. Schwarz, MD, MPH
Deputy Mayor for Health and Opportunity and
Health Commissioner
1401 JFK Blvd, Room 600
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Telephone: 215-686-5000
Fax: 215-686-5212
healthdept@phila.gov

MYRTLE BEACH

WMBF Special Report: Homeless Bound
http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/10779717/wmbf-special-report-homeless-bound

Myrtle Beach Deals With Homeless, Or Do They?
http://www.nowpublic.com/health/myrtle-beach-deals-homeless-or-do-they

Please Don’t Feed Our Homeless, Many Cities Say
http://news.change.org/stories/please-dont-feed-our-homeless-many-cities-say