So the government no longer feels it's its place to tell city how to distribute the trillion pounds it gave them.
Since their inception in late 2004, we have distributed 616,000 pounds of food.
Six years ago, when the pantry was opened, it distributed 8,000 pounds a month.
Each month it distributes more than a million pounds of donated food to some 1,500 organizations.
This year, for the first time, he went to the lower 48 states, distributing more than 40,000 pounds in Washington State.
Two years ago, the food bank distributed 7.1 million pounds of food.
The authorities were expecting to distribute more than 100,000 pounds of bottled water.
The hospital has distributed more than two million pounds of Government food in the past four years.
Judges, clerks and court officers distribute 90,000 pounds of food a year.
Last month the hospital distributed 100,000 pounds of food.