Foster Farms Donates 12,000 Pounds of Thanksgiving Turkey

Portland OR

17 November, 2020

12:21 PM

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Donation to Oregon Food Bank will feed 15,000 in the community – 120,000 in total on the W. Coast Family-owned Foster Farms today distributed more than 1,000 Thanksgiving turkeys – 6 tons – to Pacific Northwest families that are being distributed this week by Northwest Harvest. Oregon Food Bank was one of many sites throughout the West Coast where locals received a turkey just in time for the holiday. The turkeys will be distributed in the coming weeks to help feed 15,000 in Oregon and Southwest Washington this Thanksgiving. The California company has been donating Thanksgiving turkeys throughout the West Coast for several years. Earlier in the pandemic, the company donated more than three million servings of poultry to food banks in California, Oregon, Washington, Alabama and Louisiana. “We hope that our turkey donations will help bring a sense of normalcy to the thousands of California, Oregon and Washington families in need this Thanksgiving,” said Ira Brill, vice president of communications for Foster Farms. “We must continue to find ways to social distance and be safe, but nobody should be denied participating in this tradition because of the economic impact of COVID-19. We ask everyone that can to join us by donating to food banks in their local communities.” This was just one of Foster Farms’ many deliveries to food banks and community organizations up and down the West Coast this month, where the company donated enough turkey to feed more than 120,000 individuals in need from San Diego to Seattle. Now in its 12th year, Foster Farms’ turkey donation program has provided Thanksgiving turkey for more than one million people. Foster Farms hopes its donations will encourage other businesses and individuals to join them in contributing to their local food banks this holiday season and beyond. To donate to Oregon Food Bank which provides to many local food pantries and community organizations throughout the area visit https://give.oregonfoodbank.org/give/92782/#!/donation/checkout.