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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The assault is MANA on African producers of peanuts.
Why go to the trouble of raising a cow if milk is free?
I am sorry. I will have to disagree. I vote for Adams Old Fashioned, both creamy and crunchy.
Crunchy Peanut Butter is an ABOMINATION!!!
Especially if you’ve got false teeth!!!
No! Reeses Peanut butter cups, especially those small bite sized ones.
You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!
Yikes!!
I like the new ones with the white cream outer frosting (don’t like chocolate). Reese’s peanut butter baking chips are good too, by the hand full.
All those “empathetic” Lefties can easily privately send them money for support. It’s not like MANA only takes tax money.
Still sticking with the known ...:D
Yes, indeed! CNN should lead a fund drive to help these folks out. Or CNN can borrow money for them. CNN is no more broke than the US is.
This is democrat trash.
Giving vitamins with peanut butter has too many unknown variables to be effective.
You would never know what amount each child is getting.
Pure horse manure story by CNN.
humanitarian programs around the world designed to save impoverished children.
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. the” children “ such as thr
clintion kids
the rohmney kids
the biden kids
the pelosi kids
the mccain kids
the kerry kids
?? ?
you know , the impovershed
( by usaids lack of $ )
kids.
MANA Nutrition
The anecdotal sob stories are keeping Legacy Media busy.
Why do I suspect MANA Nutrition employees are big Democrat donors?
If CNN doesn’t mind, I’d like to know the cost per pound of peanut butter produced.
So, was funding for this program specifically cut? Or was funding for an NGO which does this along with a wide variety of other things bad, good, or middling, cut? It’d be basic journalism to make that clear.
If its legitimate, then Bill Gates Foundation can support it with its billions.
Oh STFU
“ Mana’s expanded 80,000 ft² production facility opened in the spring of 2024 in Fitzgerald, Georgia, increasing production by 400% and creating 60 new jobs in the local community.”
“The 100% Pledge
Because we sell Mana to customers like UNICEF and USAID, we’re able to reinvest any profits we make into food production facilities, staff salaries, and office support. This allows us to dedicate 100% of your donation to life-saving packets of RUTF and provide Mana to organizations that couldn’t otherwise afford it”
Apparently this group manufactures and sells the packets to USA ID.
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