This is Olga. Olga lost everything in Superstorm Sandy on Staten Island.   Everything.   Her house washed out to sea.  Yet for the past nine days, Olga has been coming to the Tyson Meals That Matter trailer and volunteering long hours to help the team make meals for storm victims and relief volunteers. If you ever think you’re having a [...]

Today President Obama dropped in (literally—his helicopter landed there) on the Staten Island Miller Field disaster relief complex. Tyson teams from our Grannis, Arkansas/Broken Bow, Oklahoma, complex, and the New Holland, Pennsylvania, transportation group were there preparing meals. Even though the POTUS didn’t take advantage of a chicken sandwich, several Secret Service folks did, once they fully confirmed our guys [...]

It’s been a rough spring.  Tornadoes.  Flooding.  More tornadoes.  Our friends in the non-profit world who respond to disasters have their hands full. I’ve spent much of this week in Joplin, arriving there at about noon on Monday with cooking teams from several nearby Tyson locations.  There’s little hyperbole in the media reports.  It’s as much concentrated destruction as I’ve [...]

ROCHESTER, Minn., August 27, 2007–Tyson Foods, Inc. lent a hand by helping feed thousands of Minnesotans recently affected by severe weather. The company delivered a truckload of protein products today to feed people whose homes were lost or heavily damaged by devastating floods. The donation was delivered to Channel One Food Bank in Rochester this morning.  “We believe in helping [...]