The New York City Coalition Against Hunger reports that in 2009, 55 percent of emergency food programs in the city did not have enough food to meet demand.
But for officials in New York, the possible danger of clogged arteries trumps concern for the hungry.
Recently, a church in New York cooked up some fried chicken to donate to the Bowery Mission. We suspect that the hungry and homeless who came to the mission would have been happy to eat it, and that it would have tasted pretty good.
But they never found out.
You see, New York City has declared a ban on the use of trans fat by restaurants and other food vendors. It seems that ordinance applies to organizations serving the destitute, too, and makes no exception for feeding people who might otherwise go hungry.