• tangonov@lemmy.ca
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    10 days ago

    I give $2 to the food bank every time I shop at the grocery store. I know how it feels to be hungry. I mean actually hungry.

    If the thousand people who showed up that day also gave $2, that would amount to so much more.

    Are you telling me it’s more important to resent the grocery store for making money than it is to feed the hungry?

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      11 days ago

      What happens down here:

      Youe donation goes to Freddies Fart Fund, which is not a registered charity (so you can’t claim it as a deduction) but a sub company of Freddy Fishmongers

      Freddy Fishmongers then donates to a registered charity and claims the deduction…after their Fart Fund takes its cut to cover processing and administration of course…

      Donations straight to a charity do a lot of good. That’s not what these guys are doing.

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        10 days ago

        Are you saying none of the money a grocery store collects ultimately goes toward feeding the hungry? I want to stress here that anything more than nothing is food in hungry mouths here.

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          10 days ago

          Ok.

          You’re fixating on a better than nothing aporoach- but it’s not an either/or.

          You can tell corporations to shove their tax dodges up their arses while still donating elsewhere.

          Also, i get you have a personal connection to hunger, does it reframe if i point out a lot of donation demands i see in supermarkets aren’t actually to feed or shelter the unhoused?

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            10 days ago

            The problem is I don’t believe it. That’s called fraud and so far as I know, in Canada, that isn’t something you can just do. They have to give to the food bank.

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              10 days ago

              Please read my comment again. They pick the “charity” not you. RFDS is one i see quite often, alongside the heart foundation. These are not food banks.