KSDK TV, St. Louis
Fresh vs. Frozen Food For Vets?
KSDK - "In the last few months, fresh food at the Veterans Administration Hospitals in St. Louis has been changed to frozen. The switch comes as an effort to improve quality and save money.."
But does it really? There are many who do not think so, and many are patients, relatives of patients or friends of patients in VA Hospitals. Read the information below, ask someone you know in a VA Hospital, perhaps you will agree that many veterans who have served our country well are now being short-changed for no good reason.
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"What's on your plate?"
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Thousands of patients in Veterans Administration Hospitals across the United States no longer receive freshly prepared food. These hospitalized men and women are served frozen food in order to save a few cents per meal while our government wastes billions of dollars every year. Every day more and more patients' meals are prepared at remote locations, deep-chilled, shipped by truck to VA hospitals, and stored in large refrigeration units for days until they are ready to be served. Eventually they are rethermalized (That's a fancy word for reheated.) and served to the patients.
The Department of Veterans Affairs spends billions of taxpayer dollars every year, and they often look for for ways to save money, but they should not do it at the expense of sick or aging veterans.
No matter what is said about the quality of frozen food, it is not fresh food. Our hospitalized veterans deserve better treatment.
The actual savings to taxpayers is is questionable.
Closing down hospital kitchens has eliminated hundreds, if not thousands of decent paying jobs in the communities near the VA hospitals.
If you believe that our veterans deserve freshly prepared food when they are sick, or in long-term nursing home care, and you want to do something about it, act one or more of the following ways:
Contact one or more of these representatives in Washington, D.C.
U.S. Senate
U.S. House of Representatives
Secretary of the Veterans Administration
The President
Download or open and print this
Petition on 8 1/2" x 11" paper. (Right-click the "Petition" link and select "Save..... as") or (Left-click the petition link and the petition will open in your web browser.)
Sample Letter (Left-click the "Sample Letter" link and it will open in your web browser.) Copy and paste the letter in an email message or word processor document, change it as you see fit, address it to the government official of your choice and send it on its way.
Tell your friends and neighbors. Ask them to send a message to their representative, sign the online petition at the top of this web site, or print a copy of the paper petition and return it to: 5 Bel Air Drive, #2 Wallkill, NY 12589.
When enough signatures are collected they will be delivered to our public officials in Washington, DC. The more petitions that are delivered, the more likely they are to listen and change this practice, and the sooner freshly prepared food will return to the plates of our sick and aging veterans.
If you act, so will others
Thank You for Caring
For more information contact: help@freshfoodforvets.us
This site is maintained by Richard Cortell
