Cargill Foods contributes to Thanksgiving Meal for Toronto's homeless

October 11, 2002

Etobicoke, ON - Cargill Foods will help prepare 200 Thanksgiving meals for homeless people in Toronto on Thanksgiving Day.

Cargill Foods is donating food and assisting with co-ordination of the Thanksgiving dinner hosted by the Bread of Life Ministry. The meal will be held in Alexander Park on Monday, October 14 at 2 p.m.

"We are proud to be associated with the work that Bread of Life Ministry has been doing in the Toronto area. As a food company, this provided us with an opportunity to help out a worthwhile cause in our community," said Peter Tureski, General Manager, Cargill Foods.

Cargill Foods is donating ham, salads, paper plates and utensils for the meal, which is being served outside (weather permitting.) The company has been donating volunteers and product for the past seven years to Bread of Life Ministry, a group that provides meals to the less fortunate.

Cargill Foods is a meat packaging facility located in Etobicoke, Ontario. Employing approximately 800, the business provides case ready meat products direct to grocery store refrigerator cases. Cargill Foods is a division of Cargill Limited, an agri-food company headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with interests in crop inputs, grain handling, meat, egg and oilseed processing and feed, salt and fertilizer manufacturing.


Carol Brent
Cargill Foods
Telephone: (416) 748-5006