the government should be purchasing and diverting these excesses to food banks.
The various things I’ve seen about this claim that food banks aren’t processors (who take industrial-sized portions of foodstuffs and pack it into commercial or individual-sized portions), and so aren’t able to handle a 55-gallon drum of milk better than anyone else.
For things like milk, I’d expect that’d pose a problem. But for things like fresh produce, food banks can handle industrial-sized portions of these, or at least I’ve seen it handled at my local food bank, and my local food bank probably isn’t unique in this.
The various things I’ve seen about this claim that food banks aren’t processors (who take industrial-sized portions of foodstuffs and pack it into commercial or individual-sized portions), and so aren’t able to handle a 55-gallon drum of milk better than anyone else.
For things like milk, I’d expect that’d pose a problem. But for things like fresh produce, food banks can handle industrial-sized portions of these, or at least I’ve seen it handled at my local food bank, and my local food bank probably isn’t unique in this.