Food pantries in Green Bay, across Northeast Wisconsin, and around the country are seeing surging demand as millions of Americans – including nearly 700,000 Wisconsinites – face the possibility of losing their SNAP and FoodShare benefits.
For the past year and a half, Rooted In president and founder Selena Darrow has been hosting weekly outdoor pop-up food pantries to provide fresh, nutritious groceries to anyone in need. But since May, she’s noticed a dramatic increase.
“It’s absolutely disheartening, and it’s actually wrong,” Darrow said. “Food is a basic human right. It is not a privilege, and the fact that essentially our federal government is making decisions to support other countries and not the people of this country is absolutely appalling.”…