Support Food Donation Improvement Act of 2021

I am calling/writing to ask you to support the Food Donation Improvement Act of 2021 (S.3281/HR.6251), which would expand the liability protections provided by current law in important ways. It would clarify some provisions of the existing legislation (the Emerson Act of 1996), which leaves donors unsure about possible liability. As of 2020, as many as 38 million people in the USA lived in a food-insecure household. This includes 6.1 million children and represents 1 in 8 of the population. Given the ravages that the pandemic and inflation have wrought on peoples’ ability to feed their families, this legislation would improve donors and other organizations’ capacity to redistribute healthy surplus food to those who are in need. While food donation is not the silver bullet to ending food insecurity, where surplus food is available, it should be used to meet people’s food needs.