Annual Meat Conference Exhibitors Donate Meat and Poultry Products to North Texas Food Bank
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
March 29, 2023
CONTACT:
Sarah
Little
, NAMI, (443) 440-0029
Heather Garlich, FMI, media@fmi.org,
(202) 220-0616
Washington,
DC–
Exhibitors at the
Annual Meat Conference
, co-hosted by
FMI, The Food Industry Association
and the
North American Meat Institute (Meat
Institute),
following the event in Dallas, Texas,
donated meat and poultry products to
The North Texas Food Bank,
a nonprofit devoted to closing the hunger
gap in North Texas. 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 NAMI
President and CEO Julie Anna Potts.
“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 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,” FMI President and CEO Leslie G. Sarasin said. “On behalf of the Annual Meat Conference 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.”
“We’ve seen a 15% 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.”
Continuing its close partnership with the Meat Institute in hosting the Annual Meat Conference, FMI is also a key endorser of the Protein PACT.
In 2022, Meat Institute members made more
than $9 million in food security
donations, including to build and expand
infrastructure to safely store and
package fresh meat. An index of Meat
Institute members’ efforts to end
hunger is available
here
.
About the Protein PACT:
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 transparent
baselines and benchmarks for our
efforts, setting ambitious targets for
continuous improvement, collecting
data to verify and transparently report on
progress, and launching
comprehensive communications about animal
protein’s unique place in
sustainable, healthy diets. To learn more,
visit www.TheProteinPACT.org.
About North American Meat
Institute: The Meat Institute
is the United States’ oldest and largest
trade
association representing packers and
processors of beef, pork, lamb, veal,
turkey, and processed meat products. NAMI
members include over 350 meat
packing and processing companies, the
majority of which have fewer than 100
employees, and account for over 95 percent
of the United States’ output of
meat and 70 percent of turkey production.
About FMI—The Food Industry Association: As the food industry association, FMI works with and on behalf of the entire industry to advance a safer, healthier and more efficient consumer food supply chain. FMI brings together a wide range of members across the value chain — from retailers that sell to consumers, to producers that supply food and other products, as well as the wide variety of companies providing critical services — to amplify the collective work of the industry. For more information, visit: www.FMI.org.
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