Today, Rep. Ritchie Torres is introducing a “bold” plan to nationalize a food rescue system, which would redistribute excess food to hungry communities rather than to landfills.
Torres’ “Food Rescue Act,” an amendment to the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983, aims to establish a national rescue system through partnerships with organizations already doing the work, such as Sharing Excess, which operates nationwide and has a facility within the Hunts Point Produce Market.
