• Zeppo@sh.itjust.works
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    15 days ago

    Some Businesses do buy stolen meat or supplies. There just has to be a crooked kitchen manager or owner who knows a guy. Of course they’d like to save 50%.

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      14 days ago

      But my point is the problem is in the system(s) that allows for things to get so bad people are stealing and buying stolen goods to get by. Even more so when there’s more than enough to go around. No one was going to go hungry in the UK because food is being stolen. People are going hungry because of society has become pay to win.

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        14 days ago

        People steal and make money on the black market whether the economy is good or bad. Crime like that goes up in dire economic times, but it’s not even remotely exclusive to dire economic times. Stealing meat and selling it is much more about funding drug habits than staving off starvation.

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            13 days ago

            OK, what point are you trying to make? The discussion I was having is about when people go into a grocery store and fill up their cart with expensive items that they can resell, and then walk out. Then they go and sell them for cash. Saying that malnutrition has increased is in no way connecting those two things.

            When people are hungry I would think they would steal food and eat it, not go sell it. I suppose they could steal expensive items and sell them for cash and then go buy less expensive food? Not even sure if that’s what you’re trying to say. I don’t think we’re discussing the same thing.