USED TO MAKE PEOPLE FEEL BETTER AND CURE BOREDOM
i'M BORED IM GOING TO GET FOOD
Though it's called a food giveaway on the news, they had to take money from somebody (through donations or somewhere else) before they gave anything back to somebody else.
There is no such thing as a food giveaway. The money to get the food they give away came from somebody somewhere, it wasn't coming from the people that are on TV taking credit for giving food away.