Posted on 02/27/2025 10:56:17 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
MANA Nutrition makes a special kind of peanut butter paste that many humanitarian aid workers are familiar with. It is fortified with milk and essential vitamins, packed with calories and sent to severely malnourished children around the world, including some countries in Africa.
On Wednesday afternoon, Mark Moore, the CEO and co-founder of the Fitzgerald, Georgia-based plant, got word from the US Agency for International Development: MANA’s contracts with the agency were being canceled.
CNN spoke with Moore just minutes after he said he received a series of contract termination letters from USAID. Still reeling, Moore described the furious scramble that the news had set off at his plant.
In normal times, Moore’s plant produces 10 pouches of the lifesaving paste every second. Each small bag contains 500 calories’ worth of the special peanut butter — which does not require refrigeration or additional preparation — and is labeled “RUTF” for “Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food.”
Erin Boyd, a USAID nutrition adviser who was laid off from the agency in January, told CNN it is not an overstatement to say that children will die as a result of the decimation of USAID and funding for RUTF.
“Even before this happened, there wasn’t enough funding to treat all the children who were presenting wasting.” Boyd said.
And it’s not just the production of RUTF that Boyd is alarmed about. She worries that the overhaul of USAID will mean the elimination of countless humanitarian programs around the world designed to save impoverished children.
“It will just mean that kids’ programs don’t exist; the children don’t even get identified as malnourished, and they’ll die at home and we won’t know,” Boyd said.
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There is but one peanut butter, Peter Pan Crunchy.
Cry me a liberal/communist river!!!
Maybe CNN can go finance it all for em....oh, wait....they’re going broke too.
Unless the U.S. taxpayer can claim em as “dependents” on their tax returns, then nope, nope and more nope....stick it where the sun don’t shine, CNN...
For years Ive been told there is nothing exceptional about America…… apparently without us, the entire world falls apart.
The kids are malnourished because their parents pay too much in taxes to fund government subsidized peanut butter factories.
Those countries are still free to buy it.
Oh good grief. Let them drink a bottle of Insure. They’ll get all the nutrients they need.
Not a crunchy fan …
There you go... problem solved. Geesh, can these dumbassed stories get any more pathetic?
I thought everyone under 50 is allergic to peanuts...
Where in this article is the FACT that 92% of the money that came out of USAID and went into the NGO’s never made it to these starving kids? How many kids dies because of THAT?
Another day, another sob story.
Sounds like an opportunity for one of those 1%ers to step up and spread a little love.
I don’t care, Margaret!
How about we feed the Starving Children around the world by TAXING Entertainers. Actors, Producers, Directors...
Get donations from private entities and people.
Someone is dying all the time across the world. It is a shame, but can’t be stopped.
The US Government is not the right entity to attempt to fix this.
It must come from people’s hearts, and it will never be enough.
It’s more important we all come to know and glorify God.
The article doesn’t mention how tiny violin companies are booming.
Next CNN headline; “Trump’s merciless and callous assault on usaid literally rips chemotherapy iv’s from the arms of precious sick children”
LOL LOL please..give me a break, they say “Peanut butter” but its really going into the pockets of far left groups
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