Health inspectors confiscate and pour bleach on food meant for homeless people
The Kansas City Health Department claimed in a statement that the group did not have permits and could have been serving food that presented a health risk.
Health department officials in Kansas City, Missouri, are being heavily criticized across various social media platforms after it emerged that they poured bleach on large quantities of food that was meant to be served to homeless people. The reason? They say the volunteers did not have the requisite permits to be distributing the food and claimed there could be health concerns. According to a report by KCTV, the inspectors simultaneously shut down large picnics organized by a group called Free Hot Soup KC across the city on November 5. They then collected the food, dumped all of them into bags, and soaked it in bleach so no homeless person could sift through it or eat it.