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NUFC Fans foodbank initiative - could we do similar?

Would you be interested in supporting local foodbanks?

  • Total voters
    37


Hillian1

Hillian1

( . ) ( . )
Jul 15, 2010
15,364
Struggling for breath at the top of the stairs
As good as this idea is I would rather donate to my local food bank, which I do.

I would urge all non Brighton residents to do the same while encouraging those local to Brighton to fully embrace such an initiative should it be implemented.
 




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Mayonaise

Well-known member
May 25, 2014
2,114
Haywards Heath
Tom Hark said:
Foodbanks already exist in most major supermarkets for those that wish to contribute.

On the other hand, the club and its catering suppliers distributing unused post-match food that would otherwise be binned to local homeless shelters (and expanded to include charities such as Help The Aged if they have a same-day distribution mechanism in place) like the Albion did after the fogged-off Cardiff match is a no-brainer and IMHO should be built into our club's and every club's standard catering policy. Criminal to throw perfectly good food away on such a scale.
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I think this idea. If all institutions were more mindful of redistributing food that is not actually 'waste' I am sure that this wold make a big difference to our friends who have fallen on harder times.
 




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essbee

New member
Jan 5, 2005
3,656
I'm in favour.

The slowness of the queues and the perennial inability of the club
to sort out a basic queuing function at half-time alone means there'll be plenty on offer
for said food banks.
 






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TheJasperCo

Well-known member
Jan 20, 2012
4,594
Exeter
So much food is thrown away each day by supermarkets. The amount of waste from farms where vegetables don't quite meet the highest standards set by the big chain retailers (slightly off-colour, wrong shape, too big or small)...the companies have as much a role to play as each of us. But yes, I think it's a great idea, although I would suggest that the homeless and destitute should get first dibs.
 


GreersElbow

GreersElbow

New member
Jan 5, 2012
4,870
A Northern Outpost
Mustafa said:
Food banks are a socialist solution to the problem of social hardship caused by Conservative austerity.

The irony is that if this kind of altruism didn't exist, then nor could this type of government.

Football clubs are by nature social and communal, so these kinds of acts of generosity shouldn't be surprising. It's just a tragic shame that such acts are necessary, at a time when we are living in such an advanced and wealthy society, yet the wealth is shared by so few and at the detriment of so many.
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Food banks is not a socialist idea, it's a basic idea of community and charity, both of which are enshrined in Classical Liberal ideas - unless of course, you love the sound of Soviet-style bread lines. Of course, it's fantastic for you to spout all this in cushy Hove.
If you think this is austerity, then perhaps you should go speak to people in Athens or perhaps Portugal or any other country that went through a brutal and unnecessary economic readjustment programme.

The UK has not gone through austerity. What it has gone through is massive economic mismanagement by a government that, if we use an analogy - isn't cutting budgets, it's simply pushing the food around the plate to make it look like they've eaten more than they have.
 






perseus

perseus

Broad Blue & White stripe
Jul 5, 2003
23,456
Sūþseaxna
I never eat all my pancakes. Especially before a big match.
 




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