Food Rotting in the Fields But Shortages in the Stores
Food banks are running out of food but farmers are letting it rot in the fields. What's going on.Politico
reports Tens of millions of pounds of American-grown produce is rotting
in fields as food banks across the country scramble to meet a massive
surge in demand.
Images
of farmers destroying tomatoes, piling up squash, burying onions and
dumping milk shocked many Americans who remain fearful of supply
shortages. At the same time, people who recently lost their jobs
lined up for miles outside some food banks, raising questions about why
there has been no coordinated response at the federal level to get the
surplus of perishable food to more people in need, even as commodity
groups, state leaders and lawmakers repeatedly urged the Agriculture
Department to step in.
Tom Vilsack, who served as agriculture secretary during the Obama administration, put it this way: “It’s
not a lack of food, it’s that the food is in one place and the demand
is somewhere else and they haven’t been able to connect the dots. You’ve
got to galvanize people.”
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