No, I gave you too much credit that no one would be so moronic as not to understand I was saying we need to provide better food than that, not starvation. We shouldn't allow dangerous expired food, either.
"The perfect is the enemy of the good" You seem to forget that big elephant in the corner, the one labeled "resources are limited." I doubt these homeless shelters are overflowing with perfect healthy food that they just choose to not give the homeless. They only have so much food to give them, some of it less than perfect. In the quest to make sure they only get perfect food, some of those homeless will now go with no food.
Unless these emergency food pantries had enough extra food that a 5% reduction doesn't reduce their ability to meet the poors needs, the poor who are affected by this will need to find some extra food somewhere. I bet that food from "somewhere" will include "dangerous expired food." This would be a case of unintended consequences.
So, congratulations to New York on making the poor's life even harder.
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