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Major Food Chain Donates Millions to Feed the
Poor
10 April 2006
by Anai Rhoads Ford
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AnaiRhoads.org - According
to the Nations Food Bank Network, a major food retailer donated 29
million pounds of food to aid America's poor in 2005.
Food Lion LLC, a subsidiary of Delhaize America, the U.S. division of
Brussels-based Delhaize Group, began a retail donation programme in 2001 in order to utilize useable grocery product.
Rather than allowing perishable products to be destroyed, the programme
donated the products to food banks. The food banks then distributed
the food to soup kitchens, food pantries, emergency shelters and
other charities that provide food to the poor.
"What's amazing about this level of donation," says Eric Davis,
America's Second Harvest manager of retail programmes, "is that for a
regional food retailer, Food Lion is making an extraordinary
commitment to feeding hungry Americans with such a large donation."
The chain has over 1,200 stores and employs an esitmated 75,000
associates. More than 1,000 Food Lion retail stores are now
participating in the programme and have raised $1.2 million in monetary and food donations in just the past two years alone.
According to Second Harvest, 31.6 percent of U.S. families are forced to choose between buying food and paying for medical care or medicine.
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