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Germany's over 900 food banks, overseen by charitable organization Tafel e.V., support anyone who can prove they're facing financial hardship. But fewer and fewer companies are donating to these food banks, although demand is growing amid high inflation and the influx of Ukrainian refugees. That's why food banks are now calling on the German state for help.

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[-] lemmybrucelee@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's ok capitalism will market an efficient way to commodify their deletion from the liquidity pool to insure shareholders maximise returns on the product that is human suffering

[-] Blamemeta@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yes, lets import more cheap labor! Yay, let's cut wage costs! Who cares about overwhelmed infrastructure? I can save a couple bucks!

[-] Guildo@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

germany in a nutshell

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Are German food banks mostly funded by companies? In the US as far as I can tell they're funded with almost all individual contributions.

[-] SuperSoftAbby@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, but also large financial donations, private grants and government grants.

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