It was an ideal I conjured up after I'd been friends with a "dumpster diver", where he would tell me that when he really needed food and couldn't pay for it, they'd hit any dumpster not padlocked by a supermarket-- they took the risk on themselves, just to get fed, and they often found food *right before or on* expiry, which means they could still eat decent food and survive.

Now as someone who is still all for smaller government, I figured "Ok, they didn't want their trash all over the ground, etc." but then when you learn that honest people trying to get by are out there, I figured I would have made it law that food bins don't get padlocked by supermarkets.

Why? Do I hate the economy or capitalism?

No, never, I'll never be a Commie, but I do respect decisions that, at the end of the day, put people above the average profit-- if it won't sell, don't be a *c* about it and lock out the disadvantaged from getting freebie food that is basically a "lucky dip" for their health-- they chose to dumpster dive (that's on them, not the average consumer who will not buy food from a bin).

It sometimes pays, sometimes doesn't, and I've never heard of a diver who had to go to hospital because they took "the risk" upon themselves. They go home, wait it out or purge it from their body.

Since when did we see fit to deprive people of taking actual risks and facing consequences when things didn't add up? To ensure profit on food they just made unprofitable by binning it?? Heh!

*maybe a Bin Diver Act that legally allows diving so long as the. participants keep the grounds as clean as they found them. Boom. Solved. You get fined if you trash the place while diving.

Locking desperate people out of a *bin* seems... cruel.

I figure it, if the food is tossed out, then it's no longer saleable and definitely no longer the concern of those who trashed it.

Is it truely so concerning to allow food to rot in landfill than to allow very poor people, who are prepare to bin dive, to dumpster dive? The illogic is concerning.

Biblically, Isaiah tells us that [one of the sins] of Sodom was [oppressing the poor], and therefore one of the factors that God used as validation to turn the place into thin layers of cooked sulphur flakes, as they are today.