The USDA Sweep
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The USDA is currently "sweeping" underutilized food from K-12 programs and transferring that food to food banks.
I talked to a buyer today, who lost 11 truckloads (450,000 pounds) of food...
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The USDA is currently "sweeping" underutilized food from K-12 programs and transferring that food to food banks.
I talked to a buyer today, who lost 11 truckloads (450,000 pounds) of food...
@Jolly said in The USDA Sweep:
The USDA is currently "sweeping" underutilized food from K-12 programs and transferring that food to food banks.
I talked to a buyer today, who lost 11 truckloads (450,000 pounds) of food...
Makes sense. I get the problem from the buyers end, but I hate to see the food wasted.
One of the things that has bugged me the most in the spring was the meal programs from the schools. When every school shut down, they decided to use the buses to deliver meals to the needy kids. Laudable... We often heard that the free lunch army school was the only meal these kids got...Then our local restaurants started providing lunches to needy kids (on top of the school programs)... Uhmm, laudable? Ok... Then the grocery stores hit me up for donations for their free lunch program... Then private programs... Pretty soon these kids were getting 18 meals a day....
