Clean out your cupboards and stamp out hunger
May 11th, 2007 by Eric
According to HelpStampOutHunger.com, 96 trillion pounds of food is thrown away each year in this country by the food service industry alone. That’s roughly the weight of 240,000 blue whales, the largest animal on the planet (that’s 20 times the number of blue whales that exist today). Yet nearly 10% of Americans live with the threat of hunger each day.
The National Association of Letter Carriers and the United States Postal Service will be hosting their fifteenth annual NALC National Food Drive to help reverse this problem. Here it is from the NALC website:
The nation’s largest food drive to combat hunger will be conducted this year on Saturday, May 12 in all 50 states and U.S. jurisdictions. On that day, letter carriers will collect non-perishable donations as they deliver mail along their postal routes.
This one’s as easy as it gets. Tonight or tomorrow morning (May 12) go through those cupboards and reach all the way to the back. Take out those canned beans or tomatoes or that box of pasta that never seems to get eaten. Then grab a bag and fill it up. Before the mail comes on Saturday put that bag of non-perishables by the mailbox and your mailman will do the rest.
The best part is that the food is delivered to a local bank, so you’re helping families right there in your own community. Let’s help bring the total food collected to over 70 million pounds for the fourth straight year. And bravo to our hometown of Buffalo for leading the pack in each of those years.
Oh, I don’t want to be a beggar and a chooser, but please, no expired food or glass. Thanks.
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