Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry provides funding to participating meat processors to prepare the meat for distribution. If you are a processor and would like to get involved, please Contact Us.
Guidelines:
- Processors wishing to participate must register each year to ensure funding availability.
- Facility must be Health, Custom Exempt, State, or USDA inspected.
- Processor must carry liability insurance.
- All donated meat must be labeled according to Indiana State Guidelines.
- Meat is ground and packed in 1 lb or 2 lb packages.
- Food bank, soup kitchen, or hunger relief organization must pick up meat.
- Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry representatives are not permitted to pick up and deliver meat.
- General public must receive donated meat from area hunger relief agencies. No meat will be given to general public from a meat processor or from volunteers of Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry.
- Processors must follow food safe handling regulations.
- Processors are not encouraged, nor should they accept, donations of meat that were not processed at their facility or have been pre‐processed by hunters or others. Due to food safety guidelines and inspections at food banks, meat that has not been professionally processed at a licensed or inspected facility cannot be accepted by a food bank.
- All products must be frozen prior to pick up by food charity.
- When sending in invoices, donated product must be logged on Donation Log sheet and turned into Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry, listing pounds donated and which hunger relief agency/agencies received the meat, .