While our racist government is distracting us with Xenophobia real problems that this country faces are not being dealt with. And the idiot racists swaggering down Nuneaton high street are supporting all of this, they are supporting this Government while they think they're marching against it.

https://news.sky.com/story/it-shouldnt-be-like-this-full-time-workers-turning-to-food-banks-13393691

Idaho ID Law makes it more difficult for residents to obtain services, including obtaining food from food banks.
#Idaho
#foodbanks
https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/kootenai-county/idaho-law-requiring-id-at-food-banks-causes-issues-for-residents/293-b5538e03-7944-429c-b5df-5d3097d89377

Food Banks Are Getting Into the Controversial Carbon Credit Business

Eight to 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food wasted somewhere along its journey from farm to table. When that organic waste ends up in a landfill, it emits methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, as it slowly decomposes. Food banks can help prevent food waste from occurring by rescuing unsold food from grocers and retailers and redistributing it to families and…

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#NorthDakota tribe goes back to its roots with a massive greenhouse operation

By The Associated Press
Published: Jul. 6, 2024 at 2:17 PM EDT

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — "A #NativeAmerican tribe in North Dakota will soon grow lettuce in a giant greenhouse complex that when fully completed will be among the country’s largest, enabling the tribe to grow much of its own food decades after a federal #dam flooded the land where they had cultivated corn, beans and other crops for millennia.

"Work is ongoing on the #Mandan, #Hidatsa and #Arikara Nation’s 3.3-acre greenhouse that will make up most of the #NativeGreenGrow operation’s initial phase. However, enough of the structure will be completed this summer to start growing leafy greens and other crops such as tomatoes and strawberries.

" 'We’re the first farmers of this land,' Tribal Chairman #MarkFox said. 'We once were part of an aboriginal trade center for thousands and thousands of years because we grew crops — corn, beans, squash, watermelons — all these things at massive levels, so all the tribes depended on us greatly as part of the aboriginal trade system.'

"The tribe will spend roughly $76 million on the initial phase, which also will include a warehouse and other facilities near the tiny town of Parshall. It plans to add to the growing space in the coming years, eventually totaling about 14.5 acres, which officials say would make it one of the world’s largest facilities of its type.

"The initial greenhouse will have enough glass to cover the equivalent of seven football fields.

"The tribe’s fertile land along the #MissouriRiver was inundated in the mid-1950s when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the #GarrisonDam, which created #LakeSakakawea.

"Getting fresh produce has long been a challenge in the area of western North Dakota where the tribe is based, on the #FortBerthold Indian Reservation. The rolling, rugged landscape — split by Lake Sakakawea — is a long drive from the state’s biggest cities, Bismarck and Fargo.

"That isolation makes the greenhouses all the more important, as they will enable the tribe to provide food to the roughly 8,300 people on the Fort Berthold reservation and to reservations elsewhere. The tribe also hopes to stock #FoodBanks that serve isolated and impoverished areas in the region, and plans to export its produce.

"Initially, the #MHANation expects to grow nearly 2 million pounds of food a year and for that to eventually increase to 12 to 15 million pounds annually. Fox said the operation’s first phase will create 30 to 35 jobs.

"The effort coincides with a national move to increase #FoodSovereignty among tribes."

Read more:
https://www.kfyrtv.com/2024/07/06/north-dakota-tribe-goes-back-its-roots-with-massive-greenhouse-operation/

Bay Area food banks warn Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would slash federal SNAP funding https://www.diningandcooking.com/2150773/bay-area-food-banks-warn-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-would-slash-federal-snap-funding/ #food #FoodBanks #TrumpAdministration

Anti-hunger advocates in Texas thought they had scored a win when state lawmakers included $60 million in the budget to launch a program to reduce food insecurity for children. But Gov. Greg Abbott line-item vetoed the funding.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/arts-culture/food/2025/06/24/524729/gov-abbott-vetoes-the-60-million-that-would-launch-summer-food-assistance-program/

#Ohio #FoodBanks strain as #Trump slashes federal #aid programs

In a state that handed Trump 3 straight wins, where Trump flags flap near food aid flyers pinned on bulletin boards, the cost of his austerity push is starting to show.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ohio-food-banks-strain-trump-slashes-federal-aid-programs-2025-06-07/

"Unlike Nigel Farage, I know what it's like growing up in a cost-of-living crisis," #Starmer said.
"I know what it's like when your family can't pay the bills, when you fear the postman, the bills that may be brought, and I know how much work we have to do."

A pity he's done bugger all to rectify that since he was elected.
#FoodBanks #ElectrityPrices #Railways #Water #CostOfLivingCrisis

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3n4zwq6v9o

I want to live in a progressive #IndependentScotland...

With no #foodbanks...

With no #homelessness...

With no #childpoverty...

With no #trident...

With no #westminster policies...

With free #healthcare for all...

With a #respect for all peoples ...

As a #member of the families of the EU...

Where people are #citizens not #subjects ...

As a country that #protects and #supports the most #vulnerable

All the above and more is possible...

A #ScottishRepublic... #YouYesYet...

#Foodbanks #RIF #DistrictofColumbia #TheGremlinZoo

Food banks see ripple effects from federal layoffs in DC region

https://wtop.com/local/2025/05/food-banks-see-ripple-effects-from-federal-layoffs-in-dc-region/

Local #foodbanks have lost 1.4 million #meals to #Trump’s cuts. The cuts come as food banks nationally struggle to meet growing #hunger. #Virginia #BlueRidge Mountains area is largely #rural and #conservative, with #DonaldTrump carrying all but two counties that checker the central and western part of the state in the 2024 election. It is also a place where it has become increasingly difficult for people to find enough to #eat. https://archive.is/13ynX #food #nutrition #poverty #economy #maga

https://www.europesays.com/uk/113800/ Manchester’s newest foodbank charity satisfying a ‘hunger for books’ #Books #Charity #Entertainment #Foodbanks #literacy #Manchester #poverty #reading #UK #UnitedKingdom

Meanwhile, in the #BadEconomy

> U.S. food bank system is in distress: 'The urgency of this crisis cannot be overstated' https://irjci.blogspot.com/2025/05/us-food-bank-system-is-in-distress.html

#TheGremlinZoo #USAID #FoodBanks

From WTOPNews.coms: ‘We are bracing for impact’: Federal funding cuts slash supplies at DC-area food banks

https://wtop.com/dc/2025/05/we-are-bracing-for-impact-federal-funding-cuts-slash-supplies-at-dc-area-food-banks/

(27 Apr) Ohio food banks are serving more people than ever, budget would maintain funding at 2019 levels https://s.faithcollapsing.com/colmx #brian-stewart #food-banks #food-pantries #mid-ohio-food-collective #ohio-association-of-food-banks #ohio-budget #politics-&-gov #poverty #snap #usda