Big Egg Donation for Food Bank

TYLER — Pilgrim’s Pride and Feather Crest Farms team up to donate more than 118,000 eggs to the East Texas Food Bank. It’s the fourth year in a row United Egg Producers and Feeding America’s network of food banks have joined hands. Egg farmers nationwide are donating nearly 12 million eggs; they’ve donated more than 50 million across the country since 2008. According to East Texas Food Bank staff, “Fresh eggs are always a prized item for food banks due to their dense nutritional and high protein content, but they are also one of the hardest categories for food banks to acquire. The partnership here in Texas and throughout the nation will help feed more than 50 million men, women, and children in America who are at risk of hunger, up significantly since the beginning of the recession in December 2007.”