Not caring for anyone

We Care for All.

Sounds like a nice name for a non-profit organization that collects food for underprivileged families. The goal for that type of co-op is generally to feed as many people as possible in order to have to broadest possible effect. That concept is a good cause that many people would donate to willingly, in fact, Johns Creek donated canned to a cause similar all throughout its homecoming week to help people who do not have the resources that we have.

Everyone likes a good cause to help out with and it is the right thing to do. But when people's generosity is taken advantage of, then it becomes incredibly wrong on many levels.

The co-op We Care for All did just that. The co-op is located in Henry Country, which is south of Atlanta, two miles away from the NASCAR track, Atlanta motor speedway. The founder of We Care for All, Donny Carden, used food that was donated for the hungry and underprivileged, to stock a huge BBQ. For what was called "the King-Kong of all grills" by a bystander, Carden stockpiled the best food given to the co-op. He called "dibs" on all the best meat, beans, and other BBQ foods and then proceeded to store them in refrigerated separate trailers for months until race days. He threw big BBQ's free for NASCAR fans, not the people for which the food was donated.

This level of dishonesty is honestly disgusting to me. Carden taking advantage of the people in society that actually want to good other people and using it for a selfish gain is incredible unsettling. But it also has wider repercussions beyond the loss of integrity of an otherwise legitament co-op organization. Overall, it encourages the rare and true generous among to not give to those that need it, hurting so many people that a a co-op should strive to help.

Carden's action is a perfect example of peoples ability to take a great thing, destroy it and rub it in the dirt for a selfish motivation. And for free ribs for rednecks.