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BARRE – Responding to a nationwide food and grocery shortage, Wal-Mart made a donation of 3 million meals, the equivalent of $1 million, to America's Second Harvest – the nation's largest charitable hunger-relief organization. The majority of the donation comes in the form of 50 food-filled trucks being dispatched to food banks servicing every state in the nation.

The Vermont Foodbank received nearly 36,000 pounds of food. The donation included staples such as macaroni and cheese, and pork and beans as well as corn, green beans and potatoes.

"We are extremely grateful to Wal-Mart for coming through in such a big way for the Vermont Foodbank, especially as we face food shortages and increased in demand for charitable food, said Douglas O'Brien, CEO of the Vermont Foodbank.

Personal donations to the Vermont Foodbank can be made online at http://www.vtfoodbank.org/