Food distribution

I found it shocking to read that people were arrested when they tried to feed the hungry.  Apparently, the city find the poor and homeless to be an eye-sore, and do not wish to help them in this way.  How uncaring?

(Perhaps the city doles out welfare and assumes that to be enough.  I do not know.)  Meanwhile, equally shocking in the other extreme, is the cost that food distributors pay to put the "halal" label on their brands.  They claim that they do not pass on this cost to the consumer, but in the interest of having some profit and staying in business, it is hard to imagine how this is possible.

This sounds as bad as food distributors dumping their excess stock so to keep their prices high, rather than to use it to feed the poor.  What is our world coming to?

Having said this, I also see that some hotels and bakeries do feed the poor.  Supermarkets discount their day-old bread, while some other businesses donate the left over stock to charities and not-for-profit organisations rather than dumping.  I cheer this behaviour.

How about you?  Can you see the sense in this?  Do you think God would be pleased with the way we handle money and our attitudes towards the poor in our society?