Overdrawn at the Food Bank
Photographer Troy Paiva ran into something unusual in his travels. A huge cache of food sitting in the desert rotting.
From
MS/NBC comes this story:
Huge cache of food bank leftovers found
California photographer makes a smelly discovery in the desert
Troy Paiva has seen a lot of weird stuff in his decades of stalking the high deserts of Southern California with his camera, but nothing compares with the massive, rotting mess of food and drink that he stumbled upon recently in the Mojave Desert.
“There’s thousands of things out there,” said Paiva, 46. “There’s a whole pallet of yogurt, there’s a whole pallet of Reddi Wip whipped cream. It’s cases and cases and cases, stacked on pallets and pallets and pallets.”
And it all came from a food bank, which is now scrambling to clean up the mess after receiving a call from MSNBC.com.
There is a slideshow of this at the MS/NBC link above. The food bank would take all of its past-due food and take it to a pig farm at the site but the farm closed down so they just kept leaving the stuff there, even though it wasn't being used.
Posted by DaveH at March 24, 2007 6:22 PM