Toronto's Christmas Meal for the Homeless(youtube.com) |
Toronto's Christmas Meal for the Homeless(youtube.com) |
There is some time in between when you can sell and when you can eat.
The food was probably donated by local stores to avoid waste. Videos like this are bad publicity and vendors trying to not waste food get encouraged to just throw it away instead of donate like they did here.
Big nothing burger of a controversy
many sandwiches were "sell by" Christmas Eve. Those are safe I'd guess..
The other reason is that expired food is often still edible but not legal to sell and these programs are about reducing waste, not about giving free food to the homeless. If you give fresh food away what are you going to do about the waste?
If you think this is some conspiracy against the homeless you should remember that many countries have unemployment or low income benefits that also apply to homeless people which give them the ability to buy food.