Because it violates the NYC's ban on trans fat (even for emergency food):
When a small church comes to the Bowery Mission bearing fried chicken with trans fat, unwittingly breaking the law, they're told "thank you." Then workers quietly chuck the food, mission director Tom Bastile said.Unbelievable! Why don't they just tell the church not to make fried chicken because they can't use it, why waste the food? And why can't they just remove the skin?
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Gee Michele, as usual, your certainly not going to let a little fact-checking to get in your way.
According this NY Times article, www.nytimes.com/2006/12/nyregion/06fat.html
Most, if not all food establishment stopped frying their foods in trans-fat oils by July, 2008. The only fried foods that got an extension to continue using trans-fat oil were yeast-based doughs such as some donuts.
So it's more likely that the people at the mission are confused and are not interpreting the law correctly. Maybe you should spend your time helping these people sort this out instead of spreading hate.
You can read the actual article here: http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/public/notice-adoption-hc-art81-08.pdf
When hungry people are waiting to eat anything they can receive that is free, one helping of fat isn't going to affect them much, or probably at all. When you fry or fix chicken with the skin on a certain amount of fat will be absorbed into the meat part. Even so this isn't going to bother someone who gets one helping, and doesn't make a habit of eating trans fat every day. It was wasteful to throw this away, hopefully some stray animal at least got a meal out of it.
I couldn't click on your article Kelley and get anything. Michele doesn't spread hate by showing this dumbness.
When people are hungry, they do not care what the laws are. I would have eaten the fried chicken, if I were hungry reguardless of the law. When people need to eat I think the crazy law makers should leave there noses out of it.
gee, i thought that it was health specialists who warned of the risks of trans fat. now i find out that it's all bloomberg's doing.
new york also banned smoking in bars and restaurants. maybe the church should have considered handing out a pack of cigarettes with each deep fried drumstick, too.
the article doesn't say that anyone who showed up later left hungry because they didn't get more than their recommended daily allowance of trans fats. i'm a frugal guy and hate to waste, but in my opinion, they wasted the chicken as soon as they submerged it in that sludge. it's better that the church tossed the stuff rather than rub against the law and not be allowed to provide this service again in the future.
the question is, with all of the talk about the harm of trans fats, why weren't the people from the small church smart enough to consider baking or roasting the chicken instead?
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! All of these homeless people who are lucky to get a nibble of food and when a church provides food for the homeless the government( who supposedly looks out for us) tells them to throw the food away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What the @#%*???????????? That is horrible.
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