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Food Bank Network Gets 'Beefed' Up * |
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Meat
products are extremely limited at food banks. To
increase the supply, a Dallas-Fort Worth rancher and the Texas
Food Bank Network have started a new program to increase the
supply.
Businessman and rancher Jerry
King launched “Beefing Up Texas Food Banks” with
a donation of more than 5,000 pounds of certified Texas longhorn
beef to Tarrant Area Food Bank in Fort Worth and to North
Texas Food Bank in Dallas. |
“With
winter approaching and the cost of maintaining the heard rising,
I wanted to help our community instead of just selling the
head at the sale barn,” said King. “This ground beef will
help feed thousands of people.”
King challenged
others in the industry: “If every Texas cattle breeder,
producer, rancher and feed lot owner would commit to donate
just one head of cattle every year, just imagine how many
nutritious meals we could feed our hungry,” he said.
Since Mr. King’s
donation, two other Texas longhorn producers have also contributed
to the “Beefing Up Texas Food Banks” program.
When a breeder
donates the livestock and the processing, the meat
is then packaged into 2-pound chubs for distribution to those
in need. Every 1,000 pounds of ground beef can feed 4,000
people. |
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Businessman
and rancher Jerry King (left) andTarrant Area Food Bank's
food solicitor,
Jim Macphearson, hold a 2-pound chub from
the longhorn beef King donated.
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With support from
the Texas Department of Agriculture, the Texas Food Bank Network
is spreading the word about “Beefing Up Food Texas Banks”
across the state. The 19 member food banks cover all 254 Texas
counties with more than 3,200 non-profit agencies receiving
food bank distributions.
To schedule
a donation or if you have questions about “Beefing Up Texas
Food Banks,” please contact Lee Pipkin, director
of food resources for the Texas Food Bank Network, at 817-735-9292
or lee@endhungerintexas.org.
*Edited excerpts
from January 2010 News Release by the Texas Food Bank Network.
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Aid
for Haiti
Many
of you have called us wanting to help the people of Haiti
as they struggle in the devastation of the recent earthquake.
While Tarrant Area
Food Bank is focused on domestic hunger, we recognize and
applaud the efforts of our fellow non-profit, non-governmental,
and faith-based organizations that are responding at this
very moment.
To help,
please contact one of the following organizations:
· NVOAD: www.nvoad.org
· InterAction: www.interaction.org
· The Center for International Disaster Information:
http://www.cidi.org/incident/haiti-10a/
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