Food drive

Many people involved in charity work are critical of the inefficiency of food drives.

Emergency food providers are able to buy surplus stock from the food industry at a significant discount, Katherina Rosqueta of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy estimating it at 5% of retail price.

The organization protests the military industrial complex, a phenomenon that fuels wars and usurps almost half of all tax money.

[2] According to the organization, the tax money utilized for war could fuel better social infrastructure to provide food aid to all who need a cushion of support.

It collected 559,885 pounds of food in Durham, North Carolina, USA, on March 5, 2011.

Non-perishable food items collected during a holiday food drive.
A mural in Berlin. A banana sits atop of a war machine in green. In the corner, there is green writing that says "the government spends billions in weapons while millions starve."
"Food Not Bombs" is a network of collectives that recover surplus food from grocery stores and create vegan and vegetarian food to share with those needy."