The Patrick Madrid Show: August 08, 2024 - Hour 3
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick delves into the ethical complexities surrounding food waste and potential theft in the workplace. Is it ever justifiable to take home food from work, especially if it's destined for the trash? He shares personal stories and listener emails, ranging from experiences at Sizzler and IHOP to street ministry in Texas. How does one balance company policies with the moral imperative to feed the hungry?
- Is it theft to take food home from work even if that food was going in the trash? (01:11)
- Dave - I used to work for a sanitation company. I was in charge of sorting the trash. One of the first things that I found in the trash was a crucifix. (05:25)
- Email – What does this have to do with bringing Christ to the world through the media? (09:29)
- Cynthia - I would go around to restaurants and take the left over food and give it to the poor. (10:51)
- Email – Taking from the trash is not stealing
- Tom - There could be safety reasons or health reasons or marketing reasons why the food couldn't be redistributed or the packaging might have an error in the ingredients. (22:27)
- Tony - I'm the Corporate Chef for certified Angus Beef. I opened the 2nd harvest food bank after Katrina in New Orleans and we rescue food from hotels and turned those foods and turned those into meals.
- George - Is it a sin to load up your plate at a buffet and not eat all of it? (29:53)
- Marty - I used to work in food management for 30 years and we would freeze food to help feed the hungry (32:56)
- Tony called back to finish his story (38:57)
- Kathleen - I frequent certain restaurants where the manager knows me and they comp my bill or take out an item from my order. Is that okay? (43:06)
- Dennis - There's a good feeding program where I live and when I was volunteering there, the state passed a law that any organization that had unused food had to donate that food.
- Eileen - In Green Bay, we have an ideal situation, we have Paul's Pantry and St. Vincent de Paul. They feed 200 people daily. (48:03)
- Matthew - This is a beautiful movement, as the pro-life movement strengthens grows, we need these ideas to give food to the underprivileged
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, |
| 0:12.7 | encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.8 | It's the Patrick Madrid show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:17.9 | Excuse me. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm Rebecca Dormorne from the homeless shelter. Oh, hi. Are you the ones leaving those muffin pieces behind our shelter? You've been enjoying them? They're just stumps. Well, they're perfectly at home. Oh, so you just assume that the homeless will eat them? They'll eat anything? No, no. we just thought. I know it's a thought. They don't have homes. |
| 0:38.3 | They don't have jobs. |
| 0:39.3 | What do they need the top of a muffin for? |
| 0:41.3 | They're lucky to get the stumped. |
| 0:43.3 | If the homeless don't like them, the homeless don't have to eat them, okay? |
| 0:46.3 | The homeless don't like them. |
| 0:48.3 | We've never gotten so many complaints. |
| 0:50.3 | Every two minutes, where's the top of this mother? Who ate the rest of this? We were just trying to help. Why don't you just drop off some chicken skins and lobster chef? |
| 1:02.1 | Not everybody understands people's motives. That was funny though. 888-914-9-49. A question we were kind of kicking around over here is what do you think |
| 1:13.0 | about the propriety? We have dealt into a few different aspects of this. Is it theft to take food |
| 1:22.4 | home from the restaurant you work at to eat for yourself or if you're more altruistic to bring the food home to feed |
| 1:30.0 | people who could really use it like neighbors or something is what if it's against company |
| 1:35.4 | policy and you say yeah but people need it more I'd rather break the company policy is that |
| 1:43.7 | is that theft I mean is that moral to do? What about for |
| 1:47.9 | yourself? What if you're the one who's going to consume the food? Cyrus, you said you had a long |
| 1:51.7 | and illustrious career at Sizzler back in the day. Sounds good. And were you the salad bar boy? |
| 1:58.4 | You were a salad bar boy, weren't you? No, I was. Yeah. So tell me your secrets of what your career was like at Sizzler. Well, I don't know how much I want to share here, Patrick. I don't know what the statute of limitations is. Yeah, that's kind of what I'm wondering. I don't even know if they're still in business. |
| 2:18.6 | I don't want them coming after me. |
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