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In reply to the discussion: Starbucks Fires Employee on Food Stamps for Eating a Sandwich from the Garbage [View all]Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)65. "a crime here that goes beyond denunciation"
Behind the fruitfulness are men of understanding and knowledge and skill, men who experiment with seed, endlessly developing the techniques for greater crops of plants...These are great men...They have transformed the world with their knowledge...
The decay spreads over the State, and the sweet smell is a great sorrow on the land. Men who can graft the trees and make the seed fertile and big can find no way to let the hungry people eat their produce. Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby their fruits may be eaten...
The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruitand kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must dill in the certificatesdied of malnutrition---because the food must rot, must be forced to rot...
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
The decay spreads over the State, and the sweet smell is a great sorrow on the land. Men who can graft the trees and make the seed fertile and big can find no way to let the hungry people eat their produce. Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby their fruits may be eaten...
The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruitand kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must dill in the certificatesdied of malnutrition---because the food must rot, must be forced to rot...
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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Starbucks Fires Employee on Food Stamps for Eating a Sandwich from the Garbage [View all]
Joe Shlabotnik
Aug 2013
OP
Ask McDonalds. Or any fast food restaurant that tosses perfectly good shit out . . .
HughBeaumont
Aug 2013
#6
Those 'liability waivers' don't have as much force as you'd imagine, reading them.
X_Digger
Aug 2013
#20
"who says he couldn’t get enough hours to pay his bills and survives partly on his food stamps",
KamaAina
Aug 2013
#11
How about paying the employee enough so that the employee can afford lunch, or
bluestate10
Aug 2013
#46
What gets thrown away at an average store or worse, bigbox would make people pass out in shock.
Safetykitten
Aug 2013
#18
Round here some stores pour bleach over the meat when they put it in the dumpster
lunasun
Aug 2013
#160
How many health and safety laws were violated at the factory that makes what Starbucks sells?
AdHocSolver
Aug 2013
#83
I guess you never saw the film "Supersize Me" or read the books about unhealthy food.
AdHocSolver
Aug 2013
#97
Food additives (not to mention hormones in meat, etc.) are hard to avoid . . .
MrModerate
Aug 2013
#98
How can anyone work around food while starving? Starbucks management is blind.
bluestate10
Aug 2013
#39
After a fair bit of sleuthing on my part, I've discovered that a couple mutual funds in my
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#154
I know what I would have done. "I heard about you eating the sandwich" "One of your ..
BlueJazz
Aug 2013
#51
You steal a trillion tax payer dollars on Wall Street and you get a huge bonus
Snake Plissken
Aug 2013
#62
This is for all of you that have never worked in the food industry or retail:
kentauros
Aug 2013
#74
What empathy. Oh, the humanity so many corporate giants show their underpaid and
indepat
Aug 2013
#79
what also bothers me is that a co-worker apparently informed on him. When I applied for a job
KittyWampus
Aug 2013
#85