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[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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%.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

You do know the UK publishs info on malnutrition in the kingdom... Right...