A lot of people seem to be misinterpreting me here. I don’t want poor people to starve, nor do I want people to reuse needles. All I’m saying is that cash is a lot more universal and useful to food pantries than going to the store and buying cans is. Also many food pantries have deals with companies where they can get the food cheaper. So buying cans of food to donate is also a worse deal.
Edit: I understand donating cans of food your household isn’t going to use, but in some school food drives for instance, students get extra credit for donating cans, which encourages people to go out and buy cans.
Whew, I wanna know what kinda shower led to this kind of thought so I can avoid it.
For one thing, canned goods are damn near the best donation to a food bank because they’re so shelf stable.
And, they’re as useful as monetary donations.
If you wanted to use the same basic comparison it would be more like: donating cream of mushroom soup to a food bank is like donating syringes to a cancer research lab.
Yeah, they’re both useful technically, but they don’t really help much
canned goods are damn near the best donation to a food bank because they’re so shelf stable
Cash doesn’t expire
Give the man some slack , this is clearly three raccoon in a trench coat what did we expect?
Could you uh… elaborate a little?
Canned goods are non-perishable. Used needles carry contaminate. One is useful, the other isn’t.
Umm… is this post edited or something. I’m seeing
Donating canned goods to food pantries is like donating needles and syringes to a cancer research organization
I don’t see the word “used” in it. So, it sounds like he’s saying donating medical supplies to an organization that does medical research?
To which I’d say yes both seem helpful to an organization that helps people in need.
To which I’d say yes both seem helpful to an organization that helps people in need.
But cash is much more universal and allows the cancer research organization to get exactly what they need rather then whatever needles people feel like donating. It’s the same thing with food pantries. You can donate 10 cans of vegetable soup, but if the food bank doesn’t need that at the time, you’ve just wasted your money on vegetable soup when you could have just donated cash.
I mean I guess, but if it’s an organization conducting medical research, I’d assume they already have all the syringes they’d need?
It would probably mean a little more like you’re thinking if OP said “donate syringes to clinics and ERs” or something.
It sounds like you just hate poor people. They aren’t addicted to food, they need it to live. You’ll probably be surprised to learn that people starve when they dont get food.
This is a strange take. I never said poor people should starve. In fact, I think they deserve better then just canned food. Therefore I suggest donating cash instead of canned goods. That way the food bank can buy fresher foods.
Anyways, it seems like this statement definitely needed more explanation and context by me, which wasn’t possible when just posting it as a shower thought.
I mean, the pantries ask for canned goods, because they’re shelf stable, portable, safe.
Not sure where you think this is anything like used needles.
Sorry let me go donate a research paper to my nearest food pantry.
In what way?
Sorry, I made a comment on here now to hopefully clear things up
No worries, friend-o! I gotcha now. Cash is a better donation for both types of organization, I agree.
