15,000 Pounds of Yellowstone Bison Meat SOLD to Montana Food Banks

-from the Buffalo Field Campaign blog
KXMC is reporting that 15,000 pounds of Yellowstone bison meat was SOLD to the Montana Food Bank Network for 42¢ per pound. I (BFC Media Coordinator) have been personally told many times by Yellowstone officials and read in numerous press releases by MDoL that the meat is DONATED to food banks and tribal groups. There is a big difference between donating the meat and selling the meat.
Montana Food Bank network buys bison meat
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) The slaughter this winter of almost one-third of Yellowstone National Park’s wild bison will benefit food banks across Montana.
The Montana Food Bank Network, in Missoula, recently bought 15,000 pounds of meat from the slaughtered bison, ground and and packaged in 2-pound portions.

James Dodge is a food resource developer for the group. He says the group paid 42 cents a pound, and will tack on another 4 cents a pound to distribute the meat to 189 agencies throughout the state.

The meat should be available in May.

Dodge says the bison meat comes at an opportune time because food banks were hit hard in February by the federal recall of 143 million pounds of beef from a California processing plant. He says Montanans also are struggling with higher gas and grocery prices.