Exhibitors at the Annual Meat Conference in Dallas, Texas, donated meat and poultry products to the North Texas Food Bank. The donation will provide more than 6,930 meals.
“Members of the Meat Institute are continuing a long tradition of giving back to their communities and are glad to be able to support the people of North Texas with this donation of meat and poultry products,” said Julie Anna Potts, NAMI president and CEO.
“It is part of our members’ commitment in the Protein PACT to help measure and close the protein gap by 2025. According to Feeding America, meat is one of the top three most needed foods for food charities.”
“We’ve seen a 15 percent increase in need here in North Texas since last year – and it continues to grow with inflation and governmental cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,” said Roderick Ruth, manager of food donations for the North Texas Food Bank.
“Meat proteins are some of the most sought-after items in our feeding network, so we are very grateful to work with the North American Meat Institute and FMI at this year’s Annual Meat Conference. Through this partnership, we were able to rescue 6,930 meals for our hungry neighbors in our 13-county service area.”
The Protein PACT unites partners across animal protein in the first-ever joint effort to accelerate the entire animal protein sector’s progress toward global sustainable development goals for healthy people, healthy animals, healthy communities, and a healthy environment.
Protein PACT partners are establishing baselines and benchmarks, setting ambitious targets for continuous improvement, collecting data to verify and transparently report on progress and launching communications about animal protein’s role in healthy diets.
Continuing its partnership with the Meat Institute in hosting the AMC, FMI is also a key endorser of the Protein PACT.
“We continue to support the industry’s work of increasing donations to food banks and other organizations that nourish neighborhoods, which is aligned with stated objectives to the White House Conference on Nutrition and Health to donate two billion meals in 2023,” said Leslie G. Sarasin, FMI president and CEO.
“On behalf of the [AMC] community, we are proud to make a hunger-mitigating donation of nearly 7,000 protein-enriched meals to the North Texas Food Bank following our Dallas event.”
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