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Charitable Food Organizations

In her work, Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement, Janet Poppendieck argued that the existence of charitable food organizations has enabled the government and its policymakers to renege on their responsibilities to prevent hunger in America. Essentially, by relying on charitable food organizations that collaborate with community agencies and corporations to feed the hungry, the government has failed to address how its own policies have contributed to the hunger problem among the lower classes in the country. The remainder of this paper will examine three hunger organizations in tandem, based on information obtained from their Web sites, within the context of Poppendieck's thesis. The three hunger organizations that will be discussed in this paper are as follows:

America's Second Harvest: This organization is a national entity that comprises a network of over 200 food banks and food-rescue organizations (America's Second Harvest, How We Work).

The FreeStore FnodBank: Located in Cincinnati, Ohio, the FreeStore FoodBank is one of the network members of the America's Second Harvest. It distributes food to 500 non-profit member agencies in twenty counties all over southern Ohio, Northern Kentucky and Southeastern Indiana (FreeStore FoodBank, FoodBank).

Los Angeles Regional Foodbank: Also a network member of America's Second Harvest, this organization provides food to more than 1,000 charities in Los Angeles County (Los Angeles Regional Foodbank, About Us).

For these three hunger organizations, the grocery industry plays a key role by donating food products. As explained by the FreeStore FoodBank, national and local corporations in the grocery industry donate unwanted and surplus products that arise from "negative test markets, mislabeling, over-production, off-specification production, etc." (FoodBank par. 3). In lieu of spending money to transport the products to landfills, these corporations can p...

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