No it’s not political pork. It’s fat, juicy farm-raised pork. Celebrity Cook Paula Deen and her husband Michael Groover are escorting Smithfield Foods’ Helping Hungry Homes tour to L.A.’s poor.
Harvesters: The Community Food Network has received more than 25,000 pounds of meat to help feed local families, thanks to Smithfield Foods’ 10-city Helping Hungry Homes(TM) Across America tour, a hunger relief initiative led by celebrity cook Paula Deen.
The tour’s goal is to provide one million servings of meat to the nation’s hungry families, including those in the metropolitan Kansas City area, where 43 percent of people receiving emergency food assistance are children and 48 percent of individuals come from a household with at least one working adult, according to Hunger in America statistics.
Paula Deen’s sons Jamie and Bobby, who regularly appear on her Food Network shows and have authored their own cookbook, were on hand today to help Harvesters’ staff unload a Farmland Foods truck carrying more than 25,000 pounds of Farmland products, including ham, bacon, breakfast sausage, hot dogs and lunch meat. Farmland Foods, Inc. is an independent operating company of Smithfield Foods and is headquartered in Kansas City.
The Smithfield Foods Helping Hungry Homes tour began in Deen’s hometown, Savannah, on January 14, and has now reached Philadelphia, New York City, Atlanta and Los Angeles. Additional scheduled stops include Kansas City, Chicago, New Orleans and Washington, D.C., before concluding in Detroit. Donations are being distributed through local members of America’s Second Harvest, the nation’s largest hunger-relief organization.