Review the Public-private Partnership of Food Banks: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session, September 11, 1997 |
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Page 54 - The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) is a nonprofit association conducting programs in research, education, industry relations and public affairs on behalf of its 1,500 members — food retailers and wholesalers and their customers in the United States and around the world.
Page 13 - Give a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.
Page 53 - Association (IFDA) — is an international trade association comprised of food distribution companies which primarily supply and service independent grocers and foodservice operations throughout the US and Canada.
Page 54 - ... store sales in the United States. FMI's retail membership is composed of large multi-store chains, regional firms and independent supermarkets.
Page 51 - To encourage the donation of food and grocery products to nonprofit organizations for distribution to needy individuals by giving the Model Good Samaritan Food Donation Act the full force and effect of law.
Page 52 - I would be happy to answer any questions you or the members of the subcommittee might have.
Page 33 - FMI's retail membership is composed of large multi-store chains, small regional firms and independent supermarkets.
Page 51 - ERS estimates, about 96 billion pounds of food, or 27 percent of the 356 billion pounds of the edible food available for human consumption in the United States, were lost to human use at these three marketing stages in 1995 (fig. 2). Fresh fruits and vegetables, fluid milk, grain products, and sweeteners (mostly sugar and high-fructose corn syrup) accounted for two- thirds of these losses (fig.
Page 25 - I might add, we'd like to thank both of you for taking the time to share your thoughts with us today, and would invite you, Congressman Baker, to start when you're ready.
Page 63 - Project (CCHjP study), reports that most low-income- families must receive food assistance from several sources, relying on Federal food assistance programs as well as charitable services such as those provided by the Second Harvest network.