{"id":913,"date":"2015-07-26T03:25:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T03:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pa2015.mwc-cmm.org\/?p=913"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:57:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:57:38","slug":"at-mwc-assembly-mcc-cans-vegetables-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/stories\/at-mwc-assembly-mcc-cans-vegetables-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"At MWC assembly, MCC cans vegetables for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">International participants can beans in Pennsylvania heat<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-blue-eyebrow\">PA 2015<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By Tim Huber<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA \u2013 Mennonite Central Committee\u2019s mobile meat canner went vegan for Mennonite World Conference PA 2015, switching for one week from pork, beef and turkey to green beans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-src=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MWC-canning-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126040 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MWC-canning-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MWC-canning-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MWC-canning.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Slipping out a back door into a parking lot, attendees donned hairnets, a few beard nets and plastic gloves to volunteer packing and labelling the 23-ounce cans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe knew we couldn\u2019t do meat in a parking lot in July, so this was the only option we had,\u201d said canning coordinator John Hillegass 23 July 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the end of the assembly, 3,500 cans will have been packed into cardboard boxes, destined for food pantries in Pennsylvania. The beans were purchased frozen from a local grocery store, at a discounted rate. Hillegass said it\u2019s the first time MCC has canned anything other than meat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" data-src=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mwc-canning.greenbeans-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126026 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mwc-canning.greenbeans-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mwc-canning.greenbeans.jpg 512w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/300;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve gotten some random calls here and there, people asking about peaches and vegetables,\u201d he said. \u201cBut meat is really what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Serenaded by dozens of swinging hammers at a Mennonite Disaster Service home being partially framed just a few feet away, crews of 10\u201312 volunteers huddled over a row of empty cans, filling them with frozen beans and water before running through the sealer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At night, the canner\u2019s year-round crew fires up the trailer to cook the cans. Finished batches are labelled by chatting strangers with glue sticks united in deed and belief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are going to have about 160-plus volunteers,\u201d said Hillegass of the anticipated total involvement. \u201cPeople just walking by come and say they want to help.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-src=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MWC-canning-trailer-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126012 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MWC-canning-trailer-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MWC-canning-trailer-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MWC-canning-trailer.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The project is the last hurrah for this generation of MCC\u2019s mobile canner. 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