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Gabby Davidson
As a defender of the California Food Banks Association, Gabby Davidson encourages proposals for head combat policy.
Lisa de la Cruz,
As a manager of San Benito’s Foodbank Community operations, Lisa de la Cruz manages her warehouse and guarantees that the community receives food and resources.
With high costs of living, elevated levels of needs after forge, earthquakes and now fire storms, California’s hungry crisis not only lasts but worsens.
Nutritional uncertainty in California is increasing, with 22% of all households and 27% of households with children is hungry.
Food banks are struggling to welcome sustainable and elevated search levels. At the same time
Time Federal Government threatens to freeze funding for anti-hungry
programs and insistence on cuts to Kalfresh, its largest and most important anti-heads
Program.
If implemented, these policies will put even more weight on food banks in California. The 41-member network of the Food Banks Association-which supports more than 6,000 churches, soup kitchens, schools and closets that distribute food-supply food to more than 6 million Californians each month.
Food banks can’t do it themselves. The Pig Esophagus Program that gives state funding for food
Banks to buy local food are faced with $ 54 million in average annual financing at the end
Since June 2025
This is another crisis in anticipation. Food banks will need to make difficult decisions on how to reduce their programs if the calf is not maintained to $ 60 million in the 2025-26 state budget.
The calf maintains food banks when buying rarely donates things such as eggs and meat. And it helps food banks to meet the various dietary and cultural needs of the families and the people who serve.
Moreover, calves are an investment in California farmers and food producers that are crucial to the food economy in California.
Here is one of the many stories about the impact of calf funds in California Community. El Nopal is a local bakery, which has been a major part in San Benito County for decades. When the pandemic struck in 2020, the bakery saw decreasing sales and had to make the difficult decision to release two employees.
When the Foodbank community from San Benito County approached El Nopal to regularly buy tortillas using the funds for empty esophagus, the bakery managed to redirect the two employees. Since 2021, the food bank has partnered with El Nopal.
Partnerships like this exist throughout the country. Food banks are the backbone of access to food.
As thousands of Californians are displaced by homes due to devastating wild fires in Los Angeles, food banks remain a permanent resource to rely on. When temporary fire reaction resources inevitably end, food banks will continue to be there for weeks, months and years to ensure that Californians can put food on the table.
Not only food banks help local families and communities, but they also help the economy as a whole. Reducing hunger provides a significant return on investment. Only a 1% hunger reduction saves California $ 600 million in preventing healthcare costs.
Hunger is a choice of policy. The state must maintain the calf program to beat the growing uncertainty of food, to support our farmers and food producers, and to make progress for the future without hunger.
