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In reply to the discussion: Posting without comment [View all]Sympthsical
(9,028 posts)I work for a food distribution company. We often have a lot of left over things that don't get shipped out for various reasons. One thing we cannot give out is any kind of meat. Even though it's frozen and perfectly good, there is absolutely no tolerance for putting it anywhere but the garbage.
Fruits, vegetables, sauces, dry ingredients, etc, are ok. It's not unusual to see, say, a pile of bananas by the door for employees to take on their way out. I know some will take a bunch and donate them to local shelters and things (there's a homeless shelter just down the street).
But if you're caught taking meat out of the warehouse, you're all done. It goes in special dumpsters inaccessible from the outside. It's not about the money- the money's wasted anyway. It's about the liability.