Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!genrad!wjh12!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!riddle From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: How about helping our own Message-ID: <488@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 12:21:50 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.488 Posted: Fri Dec 14 12:21:50 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Dec-84 03:17:31 EST References: <710@loral.UUCP> Organization: U. of Tx. at Houston-in-the-Hills Lines: 18 [Re: feeding people at home as well as those in Ethiopia.] I don't know what it's like in other cities, but many of the holiday anti- hunger campaigns in Austin have been doing essentially what you suggested -- they split what they raise between international relief agencies like Unicef and Oxfam and local agencies like the Capital Area Food Bank. Often they do this by sending cash to the former and canned goods to the latter. By the way, the next time you're approached by someone from a food drive asking for a donation of food, consider writing them a check instead. Remember that every dollar you spend on pork and beans or macaroni and cheese at supermarket prices could go a lot further if it were pooled with other contributions to buy bulk goods at wholesale. I'm all for food drives and have participated in them myself, but the biggest beneficiaries of your gift of a can of Dinty Moore Beef Stew may be Dinty Moore and Safeway. --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle