More than 800 pounds of pork were donated to the Atlanta Community Food Bank on June 6. And, some of the city’s residents were to thank for helping make this donation, which will go to provide 4,275 meals.

On May 1, hundreds of Atlantans joined the culinary elite for the Taste of the Nation event at the Georgia Aquarium to support Share our Strength, an organization that works to make sure that no kid in America grows up hungry. For each person who attended the event, Vande Rose Farms of Oskaloosa, Iowa pledged a pound of pork to the Atlanta Community Food Bank!

Taste of the Nation chef Kevin Rathbun, of Rathbun’s, Steak, and Krog Bar restaurants, helped with the donation delivery at the Atlanta Community Food Bank located at 732 Joseph E. Lowery Blvd., NW, in Atlanta.

Vande Rose Farms of Oskaloosa, Iowa, a family farm supportive of this important cause, is donating the pork to the Atlanta Community Food Bank.

For the first year ever, the National Pork Board is sponsoring six Taste of the Nation events, including Atlanta. America’s 70,000 pork producers help to feed the world and are committed to the fight against hunger in America.

Many do not realize:

· In Atlanta, 24% of people live below the poverty line. (The national average household income of a family living below the poverty line is less than $19,350 per year.) – US Census Bureau, ACS, 2003

· In Georgia, 12.4% (more than 1 in 10) of households are food insecure – they lack the access to enough food for an active, healthy life.

· A child is born into poverty every 28 minutes – Children Defense Fund, 2006