Electrowaste 
Every time a law is passed, "we the people" are not afforded a freedom but either having a previous freedom restricted or outright taken away. The laws that are passed are not my laws, they are laws enacted by elected officials who most often have been elected because of the huge amount of money that was donated by pacs, which were infused with money from corporations.
You can be a good law abiding citizen and follow the laws, or you can do what is right and just. Personally, I try very hard to be a just man. I feel that if you are not standing up for something, you are falling for anything. There should be a law against wasting as there is in some countries.
Gleaners pull good food out of dumpsters to re-purpose it.
This is what I don't understand:
By allowing people to take away the food, they would not be taking possession of the food, strictly speaking. However, by hauling it off to the dumps, they are either taking possession of it, or allowing the garbage company to take possession of it and then dump it in their landfill instead of someone dumping it in their cabinets and refrigerator."We don't have authority to take possession of the property; we just have to make sure that it's handled, disposed of by law," Smith, said.
People will twist laws to mean whatever they want them to mean. I think law enforcement tends to look at people who are poor or destitute with jaded eyes, and then many times do not want to help. It makes me sick. I used to give away 200 turkeys every year for Thanksgiving when I was in the grocery business. One year I had a local police officer tell me that I couldn't give turkeys away out of the back of a semi in my own parking lot. He said that it was causing a disruption. He then attempted to tell everyone they had to leave, which really caused a disruption. Everything was nice and orderly before he interceded. I had employees helping and even rope set up so that people could stand in line to receive a turkey.
I don't know why this is, but it seems that people in power always get nervous when food is given away to needy people.
I can tell you why there will never be a law passed that makes it illegal to throw food away. It's the same reason that grocery stores do not like marking down close dated product and prefer to throw it away. If people ever decided to wait out grocery stores until the food was almost bad, so that they were forced to mark it down or give it away instead, then it would be happening all the time. If people are given food for free, they would stop buying food and save their money for other things. Grocery Stores chains have some of the most powerful lobbying groups working for them, and are constantly fighting, and donating money to fight, any law that would make giving food away legal!
Now how can you change laws when you have millions upon millions of dollars going to keeping unjust laws in place so big corporations can make more profit?
The Dairy Council is one of the most powerful lobbying groups. So powerful, that milk prices are not only fixed, but if a grocery store attempts to sell milk for less than the price dictated, they could be fined, or arrested. Read this, it may open your eyes a little.
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