Beverage Company Packs Meal Bags To Fight Hunger In Dallas

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DALLAS (CBS11) — A company best known for its beverages did big things with bags of food on Sunday — Anheuser-Busch teamed up with the North Texas Food Bank.

Anheuser-Busch set up shop in the Dallas Convention Center to kick off a week of conferences. More than 1,000 people, employee and wholesaler volunteers, filled bags with five pounds of food — produce, tuna, jerky and trail mix — to help thousands more who need them.

"We are very blessed," Bill Bradley, vice president of community affairs for Anheuser-Busch, said. "From a personal and a corporate standpoint, we fully believe in giving back."

Tonja Martin was all smiles. She knows what these bags will mean for families just like hers.

"I struggle," Martin said. "I'm a single parent and I'm a grandmother, and I have to look out for my babies."

They handed out 250 bags today, and the rest will be distributed throughout North Texas over the next month.

"Dallas needs this," Martin said. "There's a lot of homeless people out here — and thank god I'm not on the streets. I'm able to come here and do this."

Last year the company gave more than 1 million meals to food banks across the country.

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