From today’s David Sarasohn column:

Food banks — and the people who depend on them — are being hit by a combination of table-clearing typhoons. As food companies and processors get ever more efficient, contributions of excess and irregular food packages decline. Donations from farmers are lower than usual this time of year, said Food Bank executive director Rachel Bristol, because of harvest levels, and because more corn is being grown for biofuel.

Let them eat ethanol.

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