Food For Thought

After weeks watching an administration use food as a political weapon, you may be asking yourself, “Where is the decency?” It turns out it’s still in a lot of places. Let’s start with a bookstore in Lincoln, Nebraska. “With federal funding for food stamps threatened, employees at a bookstore in Lincoln, Neb., went to their boss with an idea: If people were going hungry, maybe they could help. Workers at the store, Sower Books, soon set up a food collection bin near the front door. Customers and neighbors brought in bags and boxes of groceries; others came to browse for books, saw the bin and returned later with their own donations. Within a week, the storage room was stuffed with close to 2,000 pounds of food. Nearly out of storage space, the bookstore put out a call for drivers on social media, and earlier this month, customers volunteered their cars and pickup trucks to ferry boxed and canned goods to a food pantry across town. The store’s back room has since filled up again with donations. On Monday, staff members made another run to the pantry, delivering more than 830 pounds of food — enough for roughly 1,700 meals.” NYT (Gift Article): To Help SNAP Recipients, Bookstores Set Up as Food Banks. Knowledge for the curious and food for the hungry under one roof. It’s a miracle Trump hasn’t tried to shut this place down…