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Indiana pork farmers reach milestone

Recognizing the need for high quality protein in area food banks, Indiana pork farmers launched the One Million Meals program through a partnership with Feeding Indiana’s Hungry in the summer of 2009.  Sarah Ford, Director of Public and Industry Relations at Indiana Pork says they are excited to reach this milestone.  Ford says the idea was to donate one million ground pork meals through FIsH and in two short years Indiana pork producers with the help of industry partners and the public were able to meet that goal.

Ford tells Brownfield two years ago pork farmers were struggling, the economy was struggling and people were going hungry.  She says Indiana’s pork farmers came together and thought they needed to do something.  Ford says they decided to form their partnership with FIsH.  She says FIsH has eleven member food banks and those food banks will then take the food and distribute it to local food pantries and churches. 

The 1,000,000 meals equates to roughly 250,000 pounds of pork.  Ford says now that they’ve reached 1 million meals, they are working on the next million. 

 

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