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Processors answer the clarion call
The food industry actively participates in relief to victims of Hurricane Katrina, donating money and, of course, food.
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For more on Second Harvest, including how to donate food, see About America's Second Harvest, below.
| Semi truckloads carrying food & grocery products | 889 |
| Pounds of food and grocery delivered | 29 million |
| Estimated number of meals available | 23 million* |
| Cash and pledges raised | $15 million |
| Estimated value of food and grocery products | $43.2 million |
| Approximate number of people displaced | 1 million |
| * Numbers reflect both donated and purchased product |
| About America’s Second Harvest America's Second Harvest is the largest domestic hunger-relief organization in the U.S. In 1979, its first year of operation, Second Harvest distributed 2.5 million pounds of food to a network of 13 food banks. Today, the national network secures and distributes nearly two billion pounds of food and grocery products to more than 200 regional food banks and relief organizations in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.  The underlying principle of America’s Second Harvest is feeding our nation’s hungry by reducing food waste. Second Harvest’s network collects and distributes food and grocery products – from food processors, retailers and distributors as well as restaurants and other foodservice entities – and to its member food banks and food rescue organizations. Those agencies then distribute food and grocery products to some 35,000 programs that operate 50,000 feeding agencies nationwide.Manufacturers who would like to join the Hurricane Katrina relief effort or establish a partnership with Second Harvest may call the national office at 1-800-771-2303. To donate a full truckload of shelf-stable product, ask for the Food Sourcing Dept.; to contribute transportation services, ask for the Logistics Dept. Corporate Product and Transporation Donors (as listed at www.secondharvest.org) Allen Canning Corporation American Rice, Inc. Apple & Eve Authentic Specialty Foods Barbara's Bakery Barilla America, Inc. Basic American Foods B & G Foods Inc. Bravo Foods Bush Brothers & Company Cadbury Schweppes Americas Campbell Soup Company Carisam Samuel Meisel Central States Distribution CCI Industries Chefs Requested/RDS Chevron Corporation Chicken of the Sea International Chiquita Brands International Cimino Brothers Produce The Clorox Company Coca-Cola North America Columbia Fresh Produce ConAgra Foods Cumberland Gap Dole Packaged Foods Company Ember Farms Empire Kosher Poultry Fairbault Foods Farmland Foods Fellow Manufacturing Florida’s Natural Growers Fresh Direct Gold Kist, Inc. Gusto Packing Company Hinsdale Farms Hormel Foods Corporation Kashi Kellogg Company Keystone Foods Kraft Foods Lodi Canning Malt-O-Meal Michael Foods, Inc. Mission Foods National Peanut Board Nestlé USA and Nestlé Hand-Held Foods Group Old Wisconsin Sausage Organic Valley Ottenberg’s Bakers Perdue Farms The Procter & Gamble Company Quaker Food & Beverages Company Sara Lee Foods Schwan's SeaShare Seneca Foods Corporation Smithfield Packing The J.M. Smucker Company Sunny Cal Fruit Sun Rich, LLC Uncle Ben’s (Masterfoods USA) Unilever Bestfoods West Farm Foods Western Bagel World Finer Foods |
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