On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 14:43:16 GMT, "Tex John"
wrote:

It is too bad Red Cross is just money people...I bet there's a bunch of
cajuns in the Astrodome that would love a fresh fish meal versus more canned
tuna and beans.

But that would be like 20,000 lbs of fish just for one big meal at what I
guess is the biggest shelter at the moment.

That's a lot of fish!

John
in Houston



And if a single person got ill afterward (and some would, because some
get ill anyway from other stuff and some would have allergies and lord
knows what), the Red Cross would be sued, the providers of the fish
would be sued, etc.. If the illness could be traced to improper
handling, it'd be worse. And a bunch of amateurs would be bound to
have a few in it who wouldn't handle the fish properly.

It has to be food that's passed all the government inspection
processes and been cleaned and kept in an approved manner. There are
reasons for all those rules. They were made to prevent illness and
death from bad food and bad processing.

You've got a nice thought there. Really, I'm not making fun of it.
Just trying to show you the reasons it can't work on a scale bigger
than one neighbor to another.

One reason I know is that my area was having a thinning of the herd
hunt in a State Park right near a Veteran's Administration Home. The
thinners wanted to donate the venison to the VA and the VA had to,
regretfully, turn down the offer, though many of their vets would have
loved a chance to eat venison again. They made a complete explanation
in response to the public outcry about the meat being wasted.

Cyli
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