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Non sibi, sed suis While resources are provided for food on-campus, there are still segments of students that experience difficulties with accessing food. As a result, a trio of students formed Students Against Food Insecurity (SAFI), which has partnered with various organizations and departments to distribute over 3,500 pounds of food to the Tulane community. Learn more about the efforts and positive changes SAFI has brought to Uptown. 📰: bit.ly/4clvvgz

40%--the increase in visits to Berkeley Food Network pantries since January of this year. Skyrocketing costs of everything from housing, food, and utility bills are squeezing our community members tighter and tighter leaving less money for them to spend on healthy food for their families. Your gift to BFN today will give your struggling neighbors access to these groceries, freeing up more of their budgets for other basic necessities. To give ➡ bfn.org/donate.

Do you know where your food comes from? I’m talking about the actual FARM where it was produced. And speaking of grocery stores, so many more of them are carrying (and highlighting) locally grown foods … which is fantastic. There are SO MANY BENEFITS to buying locally grown and raised foods. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/giywcmEg

❗ Don't miss Daniel Wexler's workshop during the The Alliance for a Hunger Free New York's 4th annual Food Summit! 💡 Dan will be hosting an interactive session on Food As Medicine Interventions and #socialdeterminantsofhealth. The session goal is to illustrate how--in addition to income--other social determinants of health pose a barrier to food security; consider the diversity of #FoodisMedicine (FIM) treatment options; and understand the different types of benefits each solution offers, and what interventions might work best for different patients.

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So many things to post about today! Check out this story. Everyday, I'm working to elevate the voices of our communities. Food cost is too high. More and more people, many of which are children, are being priced out of healthy meals. Food banks have less resources yet are expected to feed more people. You can help by sharing this post! Our #PAsenate and #PAhouse can help by strengthening #SFPP and #PASS in the #PAbudget. Our #USCongress can help by strengthening #TEFAP and #SNAP in the #FarmBill. #NWPAfoodbank ***The postings on this site are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Second Harvest Food Bank.

Transforming surprises into staples - that's what we like to call the process of food rescue because we never quite know what we're going to get every day. We put together a look behind the scenes at how we distribute food relief to those who would otherwise go without. Give it a read and share your thoughts here, https://bit.ly/3T1X2vg #Foodbank #FoodbankWA #FoodRelief

🥜 Many food donation centers hand out peanut butter as one of their main staples for food insecure individuals. Why? ✔️Affordable ✔️High Protein ✔️Variety of Use Thanks to leaders such as Monica Bassett of Stronghold Food Pantry, our food insecure MilVet community is able to receive donations like peanut butter. Below is another episode in my Hellman's Kitchen Budget Friendly series, which is part of the mission being led by Jordan J. Foley of Let’s Chow. The idea is to teach those receiving food donations to use those ingredients wisely, in order to stretch the food as much as possible. 👇 Watch the episode below, give the video a like, and throw in a supportive comment. This drastically helps increase the reach of this episode, which hopefully will help more people learn to cook budget friendly recipes. #militaryfoodinsecurity #militaryleadership #veteransupport #cookingrecipes

Well done to Eat Wild and to Tops Day Nursery. Well researched and written piece in the Times here pointing out the cost to drivers and to agriculture of deer overpopulation in the UK. Only when the militant, anti hunting vegetarians and vegans realise the threat to UK agriculture and the implications of relying solely on imported foods will media such as the BBC and the other left wing media realise how important game hunting and personal choice is. As it is we have a multitude of famers having issues with poorly thought out laws and guidelines, DEFRA allows pollution of the waterways and their IT system is causing issues with subsidy payments to farmers. These same farmers have to cope with supermarkets failing to pay them a fair rate for their produce leaving the UK with millions of acres of grassland and farmland lost to carbon credit woodland and development since 2010 (see farming UK July 2022 or the Independent July 2020). Farmland enough to produce 250,000 tonnes of homegrown food per annum gone forever. Perhaps it is now time to support game shooting and famers alike before the UK becomes a concrete metropolis incapable of sustaining any meaningful home grown produce? Well BBC News The Labour Party will you support UK sustainably and sensible game hunting?

Especially as the need for emergency food assistance rises this winter, it's easy for anti-hunger organizations to become consumed by the need for more food. To get more food we must often sort through donations that are spoiled, ruined, or unsafe to eat. It is a laborious process evaluating what is worth passing on to our clients and what is waste, and it can be too easy to focus on salvaging as much food as possible rather than prioritizing the quality distributed. If we are committed to building food pantries that implement food justice, it's time to break this habit.