Is there anyway that restaurants who throw food can give that food to the people

It’s a liability usually. And it could also be an issue with their image because people will say “omg, why do they give those poor people old food, why don’t they give them better food” or whatever.

Yup, the amount of grain that we feed the cows in livestock production is enough to feed the entire world. Our world is messed up.

It could be about greed…………larger organizations would rather write it off as a loss on their taxes than spend money to ship it to areas in need………very sad. There are hungry innocent people especially children all around the world and not enough is done to help them.

Onemandog has the right of it - if they don’t throw it away, they can’t write it off for taxes. When you think of how much gets thrown away, it adds up to some pretty significant costs.

It’s the government who needs to start declaring write-offs for these kinds of donations, but until that happens, the food service industry will continue to throw away perfectly good food for the sake of their bank accounts … I don’t really blame the restaurant owners - paying for food you never use can cause a huge profit loss.