Austin's Dishola Website Gets All Charitable, Tasteful

Austin's Dishola, a website that collects reader reviews of favorite dishes instead of restaurants, has partnered with Meals on Wheels to bring warm, nutritious dishes to hungry people in need. For every review posted on Dishola between now and January 15, Dishola will ensure that a dish of food is delivered to a needy family, with a goal of 600 total dishes.

According to the site, many pantries and soup kitchens are struggling to meet demand because less food is available from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (The amount of USDA food available to food banks has declined by 70 percent over the last three years).

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By Sam Armstrong in Food on January 11, 2008 3:19 PM 0 Comments

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kenneth1

(The amount of USDA food available to food banks has declined by 70 percent over the last three years).

Do you have a link? If true, this is absolutely criminal. It's the sort of thing that makes blood spurt out my eyeballs (metaphorically speaking).

We have enough money to spend half-a-trillion dollars to freaking bomb Iraq back to the Stone Age but we slash by 70% the amount we spend on food -- FOOD! -- for our neediest citizens.