Check out this awesome blog post courtesy of the NYC Action Corps about their successful pie and food aid petition deliveries!

Oxfam Action Corps NYC Volunteers outside of Gillibrand and Schumer's Offices

On Friday, April 27th, Oxfam Action Corps NYC volunteers visited the offices of Senator Gillibrand and Senator Schumer with a special package - 67% of a pie and petition signatures to tell Washington to Stop playing with food aid!

A third of of the pie had already been eaten already with a  fork  labeled  ‘special  interests.’  Just as 32 cents out of every dollar going to U.S. food aid goes into the pockets of special interests, only 68% of the pie made it to the congressional staff.

Right now Washington is playing with our global food aid programs, with regulations that protect special interests at the expense of hungry people. These regulations cost taxpayers up to $500 million per year.

It’s time to put an end to the wasteful special interest deals by reforming food aid programs in the 2012 Farm Bill. If we cut the red tape we can reach up to 17 million more people with life-saving aid at no additional cost to taxpayers. Save millions more lives, without spending a dime. It’s a no-brainer.

You too can take action and Tell Washington to stop playing with other people's food.

Below is an interesting infographic outlining how current food aid dollars are spent.