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When people glean and distribute food, they put themselves at some legal risk. In the U.S., a law signed in 1996 (The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act) promotes food recovery by limiting the liability of donors to instances of gross negligence or intentional misconduct. Food Salvage programs work within the legal definitions of the Good Samaritan Act to consistently deliver surplus food from restaurants and dining facilities to emergency food centers. The practice of gleaning is thousands of years old; it is mentioned several times in the Bible , in Leviticus 23:22 :When you harvest the crops of your land, do not harvest the grain along the edges of your fields, and do not pick up what the harvesters drop. Leave it for the poor and the foreigners living among you. I, the LORD, am your God." (New Living Translation) Deuteronomy 24:19 is very similar. We see gleaning as an early poverty program in the Book Of Ruth 2:2-3: :One day Ruth said to Naomi, "Let me go out into the fields to gather leftover grain behind anyone who will let me do it." And Naomi said, "All right, my daughter, go ahead." So Ruth went out to gather grain behind the harvesters. And as it happened, she found herself working in a field that belonged to Boaz, the relative of her father-in-law, Elimelech. (New Living Translation) Jesus and his disciples may have been gleaners. From Mark 2:23: :One Sabbath day as Jesus was walking through some grainfields, his disciples began breaking off heads of wheat. (NLT) Gleaning is a basis for Paul's seemingly harsh injunction in 2 Thessalonians 3:10 :Even while we were with you, we gave you this rule: "Whoever does not work should not eat." (NLT) |
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