Omelet wrote:
> In article >,
> Orlando Enrique Fiol > wrote:
>
>> wrote:
>>> Food stamps buy food 
>>
>> Not always. They're often illegally exchanged for cash to buy
>> tobacco, alcohol, drugs and junk food. Also, given the high
>> surpluses most farms endure, why is produce so expensive and why do
>> few food banks offer plentiful produce to people whose diets so
>> desperately need it?
>>
>> Orlando
>
> Because they are perishable. The food banks around here mostly pass
> out dry and canned goods. Fresh food is very rare.
Our food bank *only* passes out fresh food! They set up an excellent
program with the grocery stores in this area. The food bank has a truck and
they go around to all the major grocery stores, every day, and pick up
produce, bakery items, dairy items, and meat that's within a day or two of
turning and can't be sold. The food bank is open from 11:30-12:30 every day
and at least 50 people a day get a HUGE box of fresh food. You're allowed
to go once a week and the food lasts a full week; that's how much you get.
Just about everything can be frozen except for produce, of course, so it
doesn't go bad. It's a wonderful program and I wish more food banks would
consider working like this instead of all of this food going to waste in a
dumpster.
kili