George Ahearn, who grew up in the farming town of Othello, Washington, co-founded EastWest Food Rescue after learning that Covid-19 was costing local farmers so much business that they were willing to destroy their crops.
When a man heard that farmers were destroying unsold produce, he arranged for trucks to deliver 3 million pounds of it to food banks
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