Grocery Chains And Feeding America Solving Low Food Security
March 9, 2010 | 1 min to read
The St. Petersburg Free Clinic snags food photographed for Publix supermarket
ads.
Capital Grille in Tampa freezes and donates leftovers to make stew for the less
fortunate.
No sooner had a produce show closed Saturday at the Tampa Convention Center than
trucks loaded tons of samples for a food bank.
Yet as thorough as all this hunter-gathering sounds, it masks the strain
unemployment put on 627 Tampa Bay nonprofits that provide emergency food to
people who fall through the government safety net.
A Feeding America study pinpoints just how pervasive “low food security”
people confronted with a choice of buying food or necessities like medicine
has spread.
Photo Caption: Eric West fills an order at Feeding America in Tampa in the fall.
He crosschecks a list and gets the order and places it on a forklift. Behind
West is the organizations director, Pat Rogers.
Photo Credit: SKIP OROURKE
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