WHERE THE BUMS EAT BETTER THAN THE SWELLS

"I can’t in good conscience throw away food."

In New York City, trans fatty foods are banned. That was implemented not long ago, and restaurants technically are not supposed to serve any such food. Its unhealthy, and as we know from Demolition Man:

"...anything not good for you is bad, hence, illegal."
-Lenina Huxley

New York City's Raymond Cockteau is Mayor Bloomberg who, despite personally and spectacularly violating all these health ordinances himself, demands everyone else be and do what he will not. While this is not new for those on the left (witness Al Gore's gargantuan, massively-emitting home and multiple flights around the world to ride in limousines), in New York City, this is creating a new problem. Metro International has the story:

When a small church comes to the Bowery Mission bearing fried chicken with trans fat, unwittingly breaking the law, they’re told “thank you.” Then workers quietly chuck the food, mission director Tom Bastile said.

“It’s always hard for us to do,” Basile said. “We know we have to do it.”

Other missions don't bother checking the food. They serve what they have regardless of the fat content, because they are short on supplies and long on needy. Although New York City is not one of the cities hit hardest by unemployment, it still has a lot of "homeless" people and needy living in it.

And, as I wrote almost two years ago, food banks are facing problems with supply. When times get tight, people have less to donate and cannot help charities as much. These missions and charities for the homeless and needy have the same problems, and turning away food when you're in that situation makes even less sense.

For Mayor Bloomberg, and his leftist cronies in charge of the city its better you starve than eat food he has declared unhealthy. The workers at some missions disagree - and rightly so.

*Big tip of the beer chug helmet to Three Beers Later for this story.