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Team Sergeant
10-04-2018, 15:50
seattle gov 2.0
One would think a lawsuit against illegal laws might help. I'd throw it all away just to get fined/arrested and then sue the city of austin and its "officials" for the illegal law.
Let me know when the shooting starts........:munchin
Texas ban on throwing away food received with praise, outrage
By Alexandra Deabler | Fox News
A Texas city has banned restaurants from throwing away food and its receiving mixed reviews online.
Austin announced the new city ordinance Monday, requiring restaurants and food-permitted businesses to find alternative methods to discarding organic material other than throwing it away.
“The [Universal Recycling Ordinance] URO requires convenient access for employees to divert discarded organic material, such as food scraps or soiled paper products, from landfills. Options include donating extra food to feed people (preferred), sending food scraps to local animal farms or ranches, developing customized solutions and composting, either on-site or with a private organic collection provider,” the ordinance read.
In addition to requiring restaurants to dispose of food through recycling or donation, the establishments must also provide education for employees about organic diversion.
more stupid cont here:
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/texas-ban-on-throwing-away-food-received-with-praise-outrage
They could throw extra doughnuts my way:rolleyes:
ddoering
10-04-2018, 17:22
seattle gov 2.0
One would think a lawsuit against illegal laws might help. I'd throw it all away just to get fined/arrested and then sue the city of austin and its "officials" for the illegal law.
Let me know when the shooting starts........:munchin
Texas ban on throwing away food received with praise, outrage
By Alexandra Deabler | Fox News
A Texas city has banned restaurants from throwing away food and its receiving mixed reviews online.
Austin announced the new city ordinance Monday, requiring restaurants and food-permitted businesses to find alternative methods to discarding organic material other than throwing it away.
“The [Universal Recycling Ordinance] URO requires convenient access for employees to divert discarded organic material, such as food scraps or soiled paper products, from landfills. Options include donating extra food to feed people (preferred), sending food scraps to local animal farms or ranches, developing customized solutions and composting, either on-site or with a private organic collection provider,” the ordinance read.
In addition to requiring restaurants to dispose of food through recycling or donation, the establishments must also provide education for employees about organic diversion.
more stupid cont here:
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/texas-ban-on-throwing-away-food-received-with-praise-outrage
Feed it to the homeless. All of it, left overs from plates, bad meals returned to the kitchen, spoiled food ect...
Austin, TX, great for live music (depending on your taste) and football games, but otherwise a shit stain on the great state of TX IMHO.
As usual, a basically good sentiment turned into an over-reaching, burdensome law by a self-righteous, feel-good group of ninnies.
How would a restaurant go about fulfilling this? There must be ways around it.
I can just imagine:
Patron: Check please!
Waiter: Sorry sir, you must finish your meal. Every.Last.Damn.Bite. We have a no left-overs policy.
:p
They are probably pushing for industrial composting like some European countries do. The unintended consequences is that removing the organic materials from landfills makes them decompose much slower and less completely.
x/S
Grind it up and wash it into the sewer. Yes, the food and the city.
1stindoor
10-05-2018, 05:49
I can just imagine:
Patron: Check please!
Waiter: Sorry sir, you must finish your meal. Every.Last.Damn.Bite. We have a no left-overs policy.
:p
That's a good plan right there. I have an overly simplistic solution though...and one I bet most restaurants will figure out too. Make it mandatory that any food left on the plate gets put into a "doggy bag," to-go plate, etc. Then it's the patron's fault if it gets thrown away. Then charge an extra 1% or something to cover the cost of the bags/plates.
Interesting location for "Futures Command." Austin is where the weird turns pro.
What these statists forget is that every law, EVERY SINGLE LAW....needs - and must - be enforced ultimately through the barrel of a gun. They forget this whether it is selling "loosies", jay-walking, or violation of "safe space zones."
Someone, somewhere, is simply going to refuse to comply. Through the continuum of force, they will refuse to comply. Ultimately, the shooting starts. it has to - the rules of society must be enforced.
We are seeing an example in the black community and BLM movement wherein they are pretty successful in changing the dialogue from law enforcement and personal responsibility to "'we don't have to abide by the rules of civilized society because: slavery."
The secondary and tertiary effects of this law have not been war-gamed. There's no action/reaction/counter-action thought process in any of this reflexive "rule making." This is ultimately the heavy hand of the government mandating compliance.
Inside of every democrat, every "progressive", every leftist, is a totalitarian begging to get their hands on power.
We are in our next civil war, the shooting just hasn't started....yet.
rsdengler
10-05-2018, 06:25
I would just open up a new restaurant buffet style called "Doggy Bags/Left Over Meals" Eat at your own risk. We can charge $9.95 all you can eat........:p
Old Dog New Trick
10-05-2018, 06:58
Perhaps this is a good thing and second and third order effects:
1) wait at the cash register for the 10-minute rule (law) at McDonald’s or whatever favorite fast food joint. When times up say, “hey before you throw those BigMacs in the barrel give them me, I’ll pass out the rest to the homeless I see. Win-win!
2) portions will get smaller, people will lose weight and become healthier!
3) restaurant kitchens will move into the alleys like the rest of the developing world and keep all the stray feral dogs, cats, rats and homeless happy and fat.
4) people will stop eating out because it’s too expensive and there will be fewer places to eat that will have longer lines and crappy service. (People in the food service industry will lose their $15/hr jobs waiting tables. Some might be retained if they have a driver license and their own car but they will be responsible for gas, insurance and wear and tear. Those without a car will no longer need to ride the bus, henceforth cities can begin to scrap mass transit and replace bus lanes with more bicycle lanes!)
5) Uber eats and several overnight (unregulated) delivery services will pop up to deliver food because the restaurants that survive will close the front door and remove the chairs and tables to make room for styrofoam containers and cardboard boxes. (To fill the landfill with more non-biodegradable material.)
6) How Austin will set precedence for Seattle, San Francisco, Portland, Los Angeles, New York, Honolulu and all the other favorite homeless city destinations to run themselves into the ground at Venezuela’s pace!
You see, it’s a win-win, race to the bottom! Let’s see which city can destroy its infrastructure fastest!
bblhead672
10-05-2018, 10:31
Austin, TX, a shit stain on the great state of TX IMHO.
I agree 100%.
Is this the same legal system that will not let some charitable organization prepare, distribute, and serve food to homeless people because the charitable organizations have not paid for the appropriate FDA permits and inspections to insure that their fucking soup is safe to eat?
These same mindless automatons now want restaurants to give away free doggie bags.
Its this same capacity for thought that has our elected representative asking questions in open congressional forums about pubic hair on soda cans, jizz stained cocktail dresses, and the porno-lawyers 30 year old tales about alleged misbehavior aboard the USS Gang Bang
May they all receive rewards that are just and appropriator for their betrayal of the public trust.
Perhaps this is a good thing and second and third order effects:
1) wait at the cash register for the 10-minute rule (law) at McDonald’s or whatever favorite fast food joint.
That's exactly what we used to do at Ft. Huachuca in 1970. There was a Der Wienerschnitzel just outside the Main Gate. It closed at 2200 every night and a buddy of mine and I would pull up to the drive-through window and order a couple of small Cokes. Along with the Cokes they would also hand us a huge bag of fries and, occasionally, hamburgers. :D BTW, sodas were MUCH cheaper back then.
Badger52
10-05-2018, 15:53
Somewhere in the wings there is a future city "alternative" food-recycling contractor rubbing his hands together & thinking about what a small investment to that city council & local chamber has brought him.
Badger52
10-05-2018, 15:55
We are in our next civil war, the shooting just hasn't started....yet.+1 One of these days someone is going to simply say "no" and keep repeating "no" until they make the offending state play the tape all the way to the end in front of everyone. They will be vilified in the press but it is going to happen.
+1 One of these days someone is going to simply say "no" and keep repeating "no" until they make the offending state play the tape all the way to the end in front of everyone. They will be vilified in the press but it is going to happen.
Get a couple of "no's" and a dump truck. Said no's can deposit their left overs in the dump truck. Said dump truck can deposit the left overs at City Hall.
Maybe stick a sign at the top of the pile that says "Free food for you swine feeding at the public trough."
WarriorDiplomat
10-06-2018, 12:24
Surprised this is happening the great state of Texas....
Economics 101: State mandates business to do something that costs money. In order for the business to comply, it passes the cost off on to the customer or it goes out of business because it can't afford the new cost. So, ultimately it means businesses close or customers pay more. Austin just raised the tax on it's citizens.
Sad thing is, most people are too ignorant to see it.
Badger52
10-06-2018, 16:17
Economics 101:
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Sad thing is, most people are too ignorant to see it.They also do not realize that if both things are to remain unchanged (the biz' existence, and the cost to the consumer) quality & availability go down the toilet. Socialism 101.
One can cue up Venezuela... or the image of Michelle Pfeiffer telling Sean Connery that, before their date, "Please I must first go buy shoes, there is a shipment of shoes." Y'all take your pick. Didn't work for either government.
bblhead672
10-06-2018, 19:23
Economics 101: State mandates business to do something that costs money. In order for the business to comply, it passes the cost off on to the customer or it goes out of business because it can't afford the new cost. So, ultimately it means businesses close or customers pay more. Austin just raised the tax on it's citizens.
Sad thing is, most people are too ignorant to see it.
Liberals just don't understand such simple concepts as cause and effects. You'd think after seeing the failures of socialism in Portland and Seattle as businesses folded or employees were laid off instead of paying the new minimum wages.
Waiting for Kalifornia to start the ball rolling by outlawing landfills, no more garbage it's all recyclable.
Economics 101: State mandates business to do something that costs money. In order for the business to comply, it passes the cost off on to the customer or it goes out of business because it can't afford the new cost. So, ultimately it means businesses close or customers pay more. Austin just raised the tax on it's citizens.
Sad thing is, most people are too ignorant to see it.
Exactly!
It is the same type of leftist, feel-good, policies that the neo-marxists continue to implement in CA that has now made it impossible to afford to live there. Now the "useful idiots" have decided to migrate to Austin and make it their new commie, hippie haven. Austin folks have generally always been a little weird but this is just ridiculous.
tom kelly
10-08-2018, 01:54
DO AWAY WITH PLASTIC STRAWS AND SAVE THE OCEANS....