The St. Petersburg Free Clinic snags food photographed for Publix supermarket
ads.
Capital Grille in Tampa freezes and donates leftovers to make stew for the less
fortunate.
No sooner had a produce show closed Saturday at the Tampa Convention Center than
trucks loaded tons of samples for a food bank.
Yet as thorough as all this hunter-gathering sounds, it masks the strain
unemployment put on 627 Tampa Bay nonprofits that provide emergency food to
people who fall through the government safety net.
A Feeding America study pinpoints just how pervasive “low food security”
people confronted with a choice of buying food or necessities like medicine
has spread.
Photo Caption: Eric West fills an order at Feeding America in Tampa in the fall.
He crosschecks a list and gets the order and places it on a forklift. Behind
West is the organizations director, Pat Rogers.
Photo Credit: SKIP OROURKE
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