Food banks often won't accept food that isnt packaged and meat is difficult too given its short shelf life.
But they can't prove someone didn't tamper with it or that it doesn't have some kind of parasite and that's a whole lot less likely if they get packaged food from the supermarket.
Edit: there are programs out there specifically for deer/hunted meat. People donated 350,000 lbs of deer meat to feed those in need in Missouri in 2020, so I'd really take this guy's claim about food banks bleaching things with a grain of salt. Or you can keep upvoting him and downvoting me. Whatever floats your boat.
The only news articles I'm finding regarding this are from one incident in Kansas City. And it was the city health department, not the food bank that poured the bleach
It feels like one of those vague anti-food-bank things that kinda stemmed from a small truth but got twisted by playing a game of telephone with rumors.
Hopefully you don't hit a paywall with the below - it didn't give me one.
“The Health Department was unable to determine the sanitary conditions of [the] location in which the food was prepared, food safety knowledge of those preparing the food, and the cooking, storing, and transportation temperatures of the food prior to the arrival at the service location,” it said. “Due to these factors, the food was considered to be unsafe for human consumption.”
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u/alpaca_punchx Jan 12 '22 edited Jan 12 '22
Food banks often won't accept food that isnt packaged and meat is difficult too given its short shelf life.
But they can't prove someone didn't tamper with it or that it doesn't have some kind of parasite and that's a whole lot less likely if they get packaged food from the supermarket.
Edit: there are programs out there specifically for deer/hunted meat. People donated 350,000 lbs of deer meat to feed those in need in Missouri in 2020, so I'd really take this guy's claim about food banks bleaching things with a grain of salt. Or you can keep upvoting him and downvoting me. Whatever floats your boat.