As farmers across the country struggle amid a pandemic-driven collapse in demand from food-industry customers—which includes restaurants, cafeterias, and airlines—the supermarket chain Publix has stepped in to buy dairy and fresh produce to donate it to food banks.
The new initiative, which in its first week aims to buy over 150,000 pounds of produce and 43,500 gallons of milk, was launched Wednesday by the Florida-based company to help both farmers and consumers hit hardest by the outbreak of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, the novel coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19.
