official sources are mumshut about church welfare...
another article showing a peanut butter plant that sells all its production to public pantries for 90c a jar, the author made it sound like they were bill gates philanthropists at the same time asking people (not just morg) to go there and volunteer a few hrs...i have to wonder, even with a jar of pnut butter that cheap, nonprofit plant + free labor + peanuts grown on their own farms by their volunteer morgs...it just isn't in their nature to give things away breaking even maybe
you know lds are doing free charity for gentiles if they wear ugly yellow shirts with lds in red letters and one out of five has a video camera to document...to make the most of a pr moment...none of the pics showed yellow shirts so maybe they're making a dime
one bit of fresh news they are closing many of the small canneries in slc because a new mechanized one is taking over...less volunteerism and more profit
anyone whos a mormon know deseret industries is the morg welfare arm and deseret industries is what is printed on the cans of food they hawk for morgs home food storage (at least 1yr recommended 2)...even if you have a savalot next door they press you to buy the mormon stuff...some of the dehyfrated good last 30yrs so it is good quality for shtf...but things like canned vegs and flour, grain (grinding your own flour is a big thing) you can buy these at sams club...but you're not supporting the lds that way
anyone who grew up mormon knows deseret ind. is the slc welfare and also the source of these long term storage food you are supposed to buy, so a statement that the church welfare doesn't sell more food than it gives away is kinda prevaricating from the beginning...no surprise
an example of the same closed circle is the church traditional fundraiser called 'dime a dip dinners' (these days they're probably quarter a dip) they ask members to bring 2 covered dishes to the dinner, the put all the dises on a table and you pay a dime (.25c now?) a spoonful and fix your plate...you buy the food, fix it, bring it, and pay to eat...closed system
they are fun and a chance to eat other folks cooking but you see what im driving at kind of a pattern
being raised in the church all i knew was mormonism i remember asking a church leader what being 'born again' meant...he said so help me that it was a cult belief...!...and when i got out i didnt want -anything- to do with religion, and in a conversation someone proselytizing said to me that God gave salvation as a free gift if you wanted it...totally alien to my experience and i thought ah, this must be the 'cult' he was talking about
God got me in the door, it might be the back door but thats where the kitchen is...peace~A.~
