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Second Harvest Noah visits the office of Second Harvest, in Chicago. Second Harvest operates a network of food banks around the country, reaching, it's estimated, 26 million hungry people a year, in shelters, daycare centers, food pantry operations. Mary Picket and Debra Keegan of Second Harvest explain how it works: Second Harvets recieves a donation of ice cream or cereal or surplus salmon form Alaska, lets the food banks know by fax, then arranges shipping. The food banks pay only the shipping costs.

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Noah visits the office of Second Harvest, in Chicago. Second Harvest operates a network of food banks around the country, reaching, it's estimated, 26 million hungry people a year, in shelters, daycare centers, food pantry operations. Mary Picket and Debra Keegan of Second Harvest explain how it works: Second Harvets recieves a donation of ice cream or cereal or surplus salmon form Alaska, lets the food banks know by fax, then arranges shipping. The food banks pay only the shipping costs.