Dear LFTP: elderly father eating dumpster food

• What should be done about an elderly father who eats grocery-dumpster food and plans to serve it at a family gathering?

Dear LFTP letter three: a listener's father in his early 80s has taken to eating produce he finds in grocery-store dumpsters and now plans to cook dumpster food for a family gathering. The panel's advice: see a neurologist, since this may be early dementia rather than stubbornness, and insist he disclose the food's origin. A PS about 'freegans' (free + vegan) rescuing food behind markets — with a Paris restaurant serving it — is itself nominated as a nonbiblical sign of the apocalypse; the secular advice is to alert relatives if the father will not disclose.