SK Foods Donates a Million Dollar’s Worth of Tomatoes to California Food Banks
By Michelle Fabio
SK Foods, a California grower and processor of vegetable products, has responded to food shortages in the state’s food banks by donating more than 82,000 cases of canned diced tomatoes—that’s nearly a million cans of tomatoes worth over $1 million.
Regarding the donation, Bill Foltz, regional food solicitor for Second Harvest Food Bank, the nation’s largest charitable hunger-relief organization, said, “It’s a great product and has such versatility to it.
This outstanding donation comes at a time when our food banks are scrambling desperately for donations.” Food supplies are low and prices are high worldwide, and as the Chief Executive Officer of SK Foods Scott Salyer noted, “The world food shortages are right here in our backyard.”
So SK Foods responded to the call and got to work, and the company may not be stopping with just donating tomatoes. According to Salyer, SK Foods is also planning “to look further in our inventory for other opportunities.”
Although SK Foods was only started in 1990, the Salyer family tradition has been part of the California produce scene since the early 1900s—that’s four generations of the Salyer family involved in the business.
On a personal note, I love sharing such inspiring stories here, so if you have any tales of companies or individuals doing good deeds with tomatoes, please let us know so we can share the Tomato Love.
Source: SK Foods Donates One Million Cans of Tomatoes to California Food Banks
