Thread: Fallen dead birds eaten by America's homeless?

Fallen dead birds eaten by America's homeless?

January 15th, 2011 2:21 am ET.

Los Angeles poverty stricken homeless people eat dead birds falling from sky

As the human right to food continues to be violated in the U.S., birds falling to their death on swanky Sunset Boulevard were stuffed into jackets of the City of Angel's poor and hungry or barbecued onsite Friday. Bird suicides have rocked the world as they have fallen in California, Arkansas, Kentucky, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Missouri as well as other countries such as Sweden, Romania, New Zealand and Italy.

Some of the birds, such as those fallen in Italy, show signs of poisoning, a blue tinge on their beaks. http://www.anewsviews.com/birds-fall-from-sky-in-italy/ Nevertheless, when excessively hungry, people eat anything they can, as witnessed in America - from the Gulf of Mexico coastal communities where people are eating recently poisoned fish - to Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles this Friday.

In Los Angeles, at least four in ten people live in poverty, 1.5 million actually live at the federal poverty level, and one out of 10 Angeleno families live in extreme poverty (below the federal poverty level). http://www.povertyinsights.org/2007/09/04/import-731/

"By the time I arrived at Sunset and Cahuenga, confusion was in full swing and the homelesses were busy picking up the dead birds and stuffing them into their dirty jacket pockets," writes Los Angeles Associated Content reporter, Adam Luebke: http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl ... html?cat=9

"The dead birds in this incident were exclusively pigeons, but for the homelesses, they were food. One man had already cleaned his fowl and was arguing with a hot dog vendor about frying it on his hot dog grill. The homeless held a bloody knife and shook the pigeon in the vendor's face. The pigeon's entrails hung at least a foot from the pigeon's slashed belly. The guts swayed as the homeless man passionately pointed his knife at the hot dog grill...The poor pigeons that had landed in the street were mostly squashed. A bloody mess."

While theories are running rampant as to the cause of the dead bird rains, Mitch Battros uses the term, "mass suicide" for the phenomenon to reflect official explanations for most of these events. http://bit.ly/i3b5r5

"The Texas massacre was said to be 'birds flying into cars.' The Louisiana deaths were caused by 'hitting power lines or cars.' The Sweden incident 'was caused by difficulty finding food.' And of course the Arkansas suicidal occurrence was caused by 'fireworks and they flew into homes and cars.'"

While the Silent Spring-like horror has occurred around the world, nowhere had it been reported that people descended on the scene, so hungry, they were scooping the feathered friends to eat them until the Los Angeles report.

In Los Angeles:

"The hot dog vendor had abandoned his cart and a dozen or more homelesses were cutting the breasts out of the pigeon corpses and grilling the meat. They had formed a small mob. One whole pigeon corpse, still with feathers and not gutted, sat atop the grill. Soon the smell of burning feathers filled the air—a putrid stench that made me cough into my voice recorder."

The report reads like not only Silent Spring, but also something out of Les Miserable, including little rays of hope offered from least suspected places:

"I'm with the press, I yelled,'and CNN just told me that anybody wishing to fry their birds can do so in their building.' I pointed to the CNN building, where the large flat screens showed Anderson Cooper talking. The homelesses looked hesitant. Seriously, I shouted, the cops will bang you up for stealing this grill. CNN has a kitchen in the building. CNN needs to do community service anyway. I'd take them up on their offer.

One man quickly turned his breast meat over and licked his fingers. 'Hot,' he said. I told them, Roll this grill in there, at least, so the cops can't get at you. CNN said you could bring this grill also.

They all had beards. "If they're inviting us," one of them said, and then to the others, 'he's right. We don't need no cops in on this here fiasco."'

The nation with the most has turned into this. Why? That's what Mr. Jeff Rense asked during his Friday night, January 14 Rense Radio Network program. http://renseradio.com/

Leubke, in his LA article refers to the homeless as "bums." The U.S. has 100,000 veterans living on the streets. http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in ... -un-report
Tent cities have sprung up outside Los Angeles as people lose their homes in the mortgage crisis caused by banksters and criminal "justice department" officials. (See embedded below: Tent cities spring up in LA, Youtube)
Tent cities spring up in LA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnnOOo6t ... r_embedded

Most people experiencing homelessness are sheltered. Nearly 4 in 10, however, live on the street, in a car, or in another place not intended for human habitation, says Alliance's new report, State of Homelessness in America reporting on 2007 to 2009. http://www.endhomelessness.org/content/ ... etail/3668 "Figures are expected to be worse for 2010." (Also see: Homelessness, poverty up across the country, People's World, Joe Sims, January 14, 2011.) http://peoplesworld.org/homelessness-po ... e-country/

More food is discarded in the U.S. than in any other nation on Earth. "According to the Agriculture Department, each year Americans toss more than 25 percent, of all domestically produced food," reported Scientific America in 2010. http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... waste-land

The humanitarian, Mr. Rense stated that there is enough restaurant food thrown away every day in the U.S. to adequately feed every single homeless and hungry American. What is preventing the poor from being fed in America?

According to the Mr. Rense, the sensible solution of every restaurant feeding the poor simply lacks people of goodwill to organize it on the local level, including their ensuring a law, ordinance or code of some sort that would hold harmless restaurants in case someone became ill.

Instead, as highlighted on the Rense program, some officials are inhumanely preventing the feeding of the poor - to "protect" the poor. Houston couple, Bobby and Amanda Herring, who have been providing food to homeless people in downtown Houston every day have been ordered to stop according to Bradley Olson for the Houston Chronicle in his article, "City puts stop to homeless outreach." http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/met ... 81016.html

"They fed them, left behind no trash and doled out warm meals peacefully without a single crime being committed, Bobby Herring said. That ended two weeks ago when the city shut down their 'Feed a Friend' effort for lack of a permit. And city officials say the couple most likely will not be able to obtain one.

'We don't really know what they want, we just think that they don't want us down there feeding people,' said Bobby Herring, a Christian rapper who goes by the stage name Tre9.'"

If Houston's City Councilwoman Wanda Adams has her way, the poor will be fed with dignity, as is their human right.

"I'm very passionate about what they're doing," [Adams] said.

"Somebody needs to make sure our homeless people are being taken care of. ... We have to look as a city to see if there are other ways we can partner with people like this who are trying to help."

There have been no noted health reports, including warnings, related to American homeless people risking illness from dead or dying birds they ate Friday.

http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in ... ts_article

Feeding the homeless? Better have a permit Video

Friday, January 14, 2011

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?secti ... id=7898553

Feeding the homeless? Better have a permit

Friday, January 14, 2011

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A local couple who spent more than a year trying to help feed the homeless has been ordered to stop because they didn't have a permit.

The city says it's not trying to be the bad guy, and they understand the good the couple is trying to do, but it says it's just trying to protect the homeless -- the same people the couple has been trying to help.

Houston has close to 10,000 homeless people. One in five lives on the streets.

Many of them are hungry, and that is why Amanda and Bobby Herring and their friends spent every night for 15 months offering free meals.

"We come out here and provide a hot meal every single night and a lot of love to go with it," Bobby Herring said.

"It's just so much about the relationship," Amanda Herring said. "We love them. They love us. These are our friends; they've been home with us."

They say they fed 50 to 100 people every night of the week -- first at an empty loading dock and then under a bridge. But two weeks ago, they were told to stop.

"We were told that we had to have health permits to continue serving," Amanda Herring said.

The city told them they needed permits and that the food had to be cooked in a certified kitchen.

"We just have one set of rules for public feeding and whether you have money or you don't have money, you need to comply with the same set of rules," said Kathy Barton with the City of Houston Health Department.

The idea being that food not cooked in a certified kitchen could make people sick, which is all the worse for someone who is homeless.

"Low-income people and people who are homeless are the most susceptible to food-borne illness and least capable of dealing with that kind of illness," Barton said.

The Herrings aren't sure what to do. Their meals are cooked in people's homes.

"We're not trying to break any laws. We want to comply with the city. We want to work with the city because we believe this is in addition to the city of Houston," Bobby Herring said.

So until they work something out, they'll be coming downtown empty-handed.

The couple is in talks with the city about the best way to go about serving the homeless people who live downtown and frequent shelters. We do know there's talk about officials discussing a new ordinance that might make it easier for people who are trying to help the homeless without a lot of red tape.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?secti ... id=7898553

And yet we can dole out billions for illegal aliens and we can't even take care of our own

They won't take care of our citizens. On Dec 1st they threw 8million unemployed citizens under the bus. Congress denied a tier 5 for the unemployed. Just like that. Not only the jobs are scarce, no more unemployment checks to help them. And anybody who calls the unemployed 'bums' or 'lazy' because of no fault of their own being jobless, obviously doesn't have a clue what they're going through during this depression of greed. I would give the ones with their cushy jobs one week to experience what these people are going through... they would be jumping off of bridges.

I hope they don't get sick, right now there is no telling what is making these birds die.

Originally Posted by busygirl

I hope they don't get sick, right now there is no telling what is making these birds die.

That was the first thing that I thought of too. We don't know what is causing the birds to die like this.

It makes my blood boil to think that Americans are having to eat these birds while illegals in L.A., especially the ones with anchors, are living high off the hog.

There is an update to the story:

Update: The following article was based on a report by Associated Content's Adam Michael Luebke, "371 Dead Birds Fall From Sky on Sunset Blvd." The events are unconfirmed and his article appears to have been no more than a hoax. The writer expresses sincere apologies for reporting on this, especially to Mr. Jeff Rense who offers a truly humanitarian solution for feeding the poor. Other facts presented in this article, aside from the bird hoax that this writer regrettably fell for, are verifiable.

Continue reading on Examiner.com: Fallen dead birds eaten by America's homeless? - National Human Rights | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in ... z1BGZttcui

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

Feeding the homeless? Better have a permit

Friday, January 14, 2011

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A local couple who spent more than a year trying to help feed the homeless has been ordered to stop because they didn't have a permit.

The city says it's not trying to be the bad guy, and they understand the good the couple is trying to do, but it says it's just trying to protect the homeless -- the same people the couple has been trying to help.

Houston has close to 10,000 homeless people. One in five lives on the streets.

Many of them are hungry, and that is why Amanda and Bobby Herring and their friends spent every night for 15 months offering free meals.

"We come out here and provide a hot meal every single night and a lot of love to go with it," Bobby Herring said.

"It's just so much about the relationship," Amanda Herring said. "We love them. They love us. These are our friends; they've been home with us."

They say they fed 50 to 100 people every night of the week -- first at an empty loading dock and then under a bridge. But two weeks ago, they were told to stop.

"We were told that we had to have health permits to continue serving," Amanda Herring said.

The city told them they needed permits and that the food had to be cooked in a certified kitchen.

"We just have one set of rules for public feeding and whether you have money or you don't have money, you need to comply with the same set of rules," said Kathy Barton with the City of Houston Health Department.

The idea being that food not cooked in a certified kitchen could make people sick, which is all the worse for someone who is homeless.

"Low-income people and people who are homeless are the most susceptible to food-borne illness and least capable of dealing with that kind of illness," Barton said.

The Herrings aren't sure what to do. Their meals are cooked in people's homes.

"We're not trying to break any laws. We want to comply with the city. We want to work with the city because we believe this is in addition to the city of Houston," Bobby Herring said.

So until they work something out, they'll be coming downtown empty-handed.

The couple is in talks with the city about the best way to go about serving the homeless people who live downtown and frequent shelters. We do know there's talk about officials discussing a new ordinance that might make it easier for people who are trying to help the homeless without a lot of red tape.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?secti ... id=7898553

Are taco trucks exempt from these laws? Seems to be an awful lot of em around, they have permits? Using certified kitchens? Is the law enforced for everyone or do certain people have special privileges?

Originally Posted by Judy

There is an update to the story:

Update: The following article was based on a report by Associated Content's Adam Michael Luebke, "371 Dead Birds Fall From Sky on Sunset Blvd." The events are unconfirmed and his article appears to have been no more than a hoax. The writer expresses sincere apologies for reporting on this, especially to Mr. Jeff Rense who offers a truly humanitarian solution for feeding the poor. Other facts presented in this article, aside from the bird hoax that this writer regrettably fell for, are verifiable.

Continue reading on Examiner.com: Fallen dead birds eaten by America's homeless? - National Human Rights | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in ... z1BGZttcui

Judy, thanks for posting this.
The origional story really bothered me and broke my heart.