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  • Alberta food banks grapple with high cost of free beef

    Alberta food banks grapple with high cost of free beef

    Rising costs challenge Alberta food banks amid donated beef In southern Alberta, pockets of generosity meet a practical hurdle: the cost of turning donated cattle into consumable beef. Food banks serving the Lethbridge area say they’re not short of beef donations, but they are running into the financial barrier of processing, handling, and distributing that…