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go to waste.
Forgotten Harvest receives
food donations from restaurants,
grocery stores, farms and other
sources and delivers them to 250
soup kitchens, shelters and food
pantries in Metro Detroit.
Chris Ivey is the director of
marketing and public relations
at Forgotten Harvest. He says the
arrangement was a natural fit. “As
we’re the food rescue experts in
Metro Detroit, they reached out
to us as a partner to donate their
surplus food to,” Ivey says. “Both
missions are trying to eliminate
food waste.”
Hungry Harvest began donating
to the nonprofit June 2.
“They are creating weekly ship-
ments to us with the fruits and
vegetables they were able to pro-
cure and not able to sell in their
regular retail program for profit,”
Ivey says.
Most of the produce in Hungry
Harvest’s boxes comes from local
farms. The rest comes from whole-
salers or packaging houses that
sort out produce that won’t go to
market, usually because of visual
imperfections.
Another reason produce goes
to waste has to do with surpluses.
According to Lutz, when a farmer
has a surplus harvest, it is diffi-

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cult to market and the price often
drops.
“We wind up wasting about 40
percent of the food we grow in the
U.S. That’s $218 billion on a yearly
basis, or 1.3 percent of our gross
domestic product,” Lutz says. “We
use lands the size of Texas and
California for food we don’t eat.”
Through his company, Lutz com-
bines the idea of tikkun olam and
eating healthy — two things he is
passionate about. •

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Increased Allocations

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The Conference on Jewish Material
Claims Against Germany (Claims
Conference), announced last week
an $87.75 million increase in fund-
ing for social welfare services for
Holocaust survivors, bringing total
global allocations for 2019 to $564
million.
Of the negotiations, Claims
Conference Executive Vice
President Greg Schneider said,
“Although no amount of money
can ever compensate for the inde-
scribable suffering and losses of
Holocaust survivors, these elderly
heroes deserve the recognition that
increased payments and much-

needed services will provide.”
Results of the negotiation
include a 53.6 percent increase
over the next three years in the
Central and Eastern European
Fund (CEEF) pensions, which the
Claims Conference pays to 55,000
Holocaust survivors. The first
increase to $485 ( from $411) will
commence on Jan. 1, 2019.
Also, the criteria for the Child
Survivor Fund payments has been
liberalized. The length of time child
survivors need to have been in hid-
ing or living under false identity
was reduced from six months to
four months. •