While many of us contemplate a Thanksgiving Day meal of freshly baked turkey and stuffing and potatoes and vegetables and pies, New York City has decided that if you are to receive a meal from charity, you can't have the kind of meal the rest of us would enjoy.
From the Heritage Foundation:
Just in Time for Thanksgiving: Bloomberg Puts Homeless on a Diet.
Well, Happy Thanksgiving America ... except for New York City which has elected the likes of Big Nanny Mayor Bloomberg who is practicing his role as the Grinch for Christmas ... er, the Winter Solstice Festival.Thinking of giving food to the homeless this Thanksgiving? Well, if you’re in New York City, that food had better comply with new nutrition standards issued by Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Health Department.As of October 31, shelters, soup kitchens, and the like are barred from accepting food donations unless packaged and bearing nutrition data. That, according to a recent report at CBSNews.com, effectively means an end to the tons of free meals previously provided by the likes of Glenn Richter, who has collected surplus food from synagogues to share with the poor for some 20 years.The new rules require that meals and snacks served to the needy be prepared in compliance with precise nutrition standards laid out by government bureaucrats.Consequently, shelters are unable to accept food donations that are not prepackaged, because it is nearly impossible to know the exact nutritional content of such foods. This means that restaurants, churches, and community groups can no longer easily give surplus or prepared food to those who need it most.
No, you can't have a candy cane.
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