All because they can't determine salt content of the donated food.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) â Mayor Michael Bloombergâs food police have struck again!
Outlawed are food donations to homeless shelters because the city canât assess their salt, fat and fiber content, reports CBS 2âs Marcia Kramer.
Glenn Richter arrived at a West Side synagogue on Monday to collect surplus bagels â fresh nutritious bagels â to donate to the poor. However, under a new edict from Bloombergâs food police he can no longer donate the food to city homeless shelters.
Itâs the âno bagels for youâ edict.
âI canât give you something thatâs a supplement to the food you already have? Sorry thatâs wrong,â Richter said.
Richter has been collecting food from places like the Ohav Zedek synagogue and bringing it to homeless shelters for more than 20 years, but recently his donation, including a âcholentâ or carrot stew, was turned away because the Bloomberg administration wants to monitor the salt, fat and fiber eaten by the homeless.
Richter said he was stunned. He said his family has eaten the same food forever and flourished.
âMy father lived to 97; my grandfather lived to 97, and they all enjoyed it and somehow weâre being told that this is no good and I think there is a degree of management that becomes micromanagement and when you cross that line simply what youâre doing is wrong,â Richter said.
But Mayor Bloomberg, a salt-aholic himself, was unapologetic.
âFor the things that we run because of all sorts of safety reasons, we just have a policy it is my understanding of not taking donations,â Bloomberg said.
Told that his administration recently enacted the policy, the mayor was Grinch-like.
âIf they did in the past they shouldnât have done it and we shouldnât have accepted it,â Bloomberg said.
Richter said that over the years heâs delivered more than two tons of food to the homeless. He said Mayor Bloomberg is eating away at his ability to do good.
The ban on food donations was made by an inter-agency task force that includes the departments of Health and Homeless Services.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03...gain-nyc-bans-food-donations-to-the-homeless/
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) â Mayor Michael Bloombergâs food police have struck again!
Outlawed are food donations to homeless shelters because the city canât assess their salt, fat and fiber content, reports CBS 2âs Marcia Kramer.
Glenn Richter arrived at a West Side synagogue on Monday to collect surplus bagels â fresh nutritious bagels â to donate to the poor. However, under a new edict from Bloombergâs food police he can no longer donate the food to city homeless shelters.
Itâs the âno bagels for youâ edict.
âI canât give you something thatâs a supplement to the food you already have? Sorry thatâs wrong,â Richter said.
Richter has been collecting food from places like the Ohav Zedek synagogue and bringing it to homeless shelters for more than 20 years, but recently his donation, including a âcholentâ or carrot stew, was turned away because the Bloomberg administration wants to monitor the salt, fat and fiber eaten by the homeless.
Richter said he was stunned. He said his family has eaten the same food forever and flourished.
âMy father lived to 97; my grandfather lived to 97, and they all enjoyed it and somehow weâre being told that this is no good and I think there is a degree of management that becomes micromanagement and when you cross that line simply what youâre doing is wrong,â Richter said.
But Mayor Bloomberg, a salt-aholic himself, was unapologetic.
âFor the things that we run because of all sorts of safety reasons, we just have a policy it is my understanding of not taking donations,â Bloomberg said.
Told that his administration recently enacted the policy, the mayor was Grinch-like.
âIf they did in the past they shouldnât have done it and we shouldnât have accepted it,â Bloomberg said.
Richter said that over the years heâs delivered more than two tons of food to the homeless. He said Mayor Bloomberg is eating away at his ability to do good.
The ban on food donations was made by an inter-agency task force that includes the departments of Health and Homeless Services.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03...gain-nyc-bans-food-donations-to-the-homeless/
