SC -donating food (was trenchers) in Washinton State

[Irissa Mitchell]

While I stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington in the Army (as of Apr 97
anyway) we would have mounds of food left over from the chow hall after
a field training exercise. We were forced to throw it away because the
Army did not want to risk being sued by a shelter. All of this food was
still in containers/canned and never opened and I literally mean
*MOUNDS*. There were neat piles up to my waist the width and length of a
small car!!

I even went to my Battalion Command Sergeant Major and asked
(complained) why we were not allowed to collect the leftovers and donate
them to the homeless shelters nearby. He said the Army could not risk a
homeless person getting food poisoning and suing the Army and if we
(other soldiers and myself) were caught *stealing* these leftovers
(again) and taking them to the shelters we would be court marshaled. 

As far as I know the shelter did NOT object to our donations. They
seemed very happy to see to cars full of food and us in uniform
delivering it.

Irissa



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	kat [SMTP:kat at kagan.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, January 06, 1998 6:00 PM
> To:	'cooks'
> Subject:	SC - re:  trenchers
> 
> Corwyn writes:
> 
> > Tell me about it. We once researched donating leftovers to a food
> bank. 
> > Seems we could possibly get sued if something were wrong with any of
> the 
> > unused food. If anybody knows different I'd appreciate leads.
> 
> You're kidding!!!!!  What state do you live in???
> 
> We've never had a problem with this (though, admittedly, our usual
> procedure is to baggie the leftovers and give them away at the end of
> the night to feasters; the few times we have food-banked we've donated
> it through the church we were using for a site at the time.)
> 
> I've brought this up on the list before but no one had any other
> comments at the time--have any newcomers to the list had any
> experience dealing with food banks and getting rid of excess
> post-event food?
> 
> There's an indigent soul on my corner whose eyes light up every time
> he sees me coming with those half-dozen spare loaves of bread...
> 
> 
> 	- kat
> 
> 
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