{"id":11523,"date":"2017-11-15T22:50:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T03:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=11523"},"modified":"2017-11-15T22:50:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T03:50:09","slug":"donating-food-to-charity-is-inefficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/donating-food-to-charity-is-inefficient\/","title":{"rendered":"Donating food to charity is inefficient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article points out that donating food to charity is inefficient. Next time you&#8217;re thinking about doing it, perhaps consider donating money instead. The buyers at food banks can buy food more cost effectively than you &#8212; plus they can buy what they need. The article is from Tristin Hopper, in the <strong>National Post<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/im-begging-you-stop-donating-canned-goods-to-food-banks?google_editors_picks=true\">I&#8217;m begging you: Stop donating canned goods to food banks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now that I do a search on this subject I see that it&#8217;s been pointed out multiple times in the last few years, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve heard the argument before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article points out that donating food to charity is inefficient. Next time you&#8217;re thinking about doing it, perhaps consider donating money instead. The buyers at food banks can buy food more cost effectively than you &#8212; plus they can buy what they need. The article is from Tristin Hopper, in the National Post: I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-11523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-charities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11524,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11523\/revisions\/11524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}