When crises hit, America turns to its food banks. During COVID, organizations like Farm Share helped keep families fed through long months of uncertainty. We stayed because people needed us — through a pandemic, record price spikes, and storm seasons that seemed to arrive faster and hit harder. We will always be there for our neighbors.

But we need to be honest with the public: food banks cannot replace the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — not for a week, not for a month, and certainly not for the millions of households who rely on it to buy groceries. SNAP is the country’s first line of defense against hunger, reaching more than 41 million people each month on average. That includes seniors, children, veterans, and working families who are doing everything right but s

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