U.S. Charity Accelerating Plans Due to Recession

The charity is pushing to collect more food from food retailers across the United States, Escarra said. Simply having a program collecting food from every Wal-Mart store would provide 100 million pounds of food annually.

Feeding America currently collects food from 3,500 U.S. retailers and intends to push that number to 10,000 in the next two years as it expands its fleet of refrigerated trucks, she said.