Food Banks Get The Love, But SNAP Does More To Fight Hunger

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Food Banks Get The Love, But SNAP Does More To Fight Hunger
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Food banks are getting a lot of attention and donations right now. Yet many people who run them say there's a more important — and efficient — way to fight hunger: Give people money to buy groceries. That's what SNAP does.

People load their vehicles with boxes of food at a Los Angeles Regional Food Bank earlier this month in Los Angeles. Food banks across the United States are seeing numbers and people they have never seen before amid unprecedented unemployment from the COVID-19 outbreak.Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

, a Dallas-based milk processor which saw demand plunge when restaurants and schools closed in mid-March. The company couldn't find buyers for all the milk its farmers were producing, and asked some of them to simply dump the surplus.As part of the new USDA program, though, Borden Dairy won a $137 million contract to send 44 million gallons of milk to charitable organizations, mainly food banks.

So far, he's only found takers for about 10% of the milk that the company needs to give away to earn that full paycheck from the USDA. There is, however, a whole different way to help people get the food: Simply distribute money that people can use to buy groceries.This is what makes SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, so effective. Last year, 35 million people

Food banks themselves, in fact, are among SNAP's biggest fans."Those of us in the anti-hunger community, we truly believe that SNAP is far and away the most important component of our social safety net against hunger in our country," saysYet SNAP doesn't enjoy the same bipartisan applause as food banks. Over the years, many politicians

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