Posted on 02/27/2025 10:56:17 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
We had a friend from Guyana (British). He could not understand our love for peanuts and peanut butter. He heartily disliked both. This from a guy who ate chicken foot soup and fish head soup (The eye balls stared back).
My kids can’t take peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to school. Too many kids with peanut allergies.
We don’t eat peanut butter like we used to.
This isn’t for US kids.
Regular peanut butter doesn’t have the composition and nutrients needed to bring a starving child back from the brink, but it’s *almost there* — just needs a little tweaking.
I don’t know how much it costs now, but when first formulatwasted back in 2004, the cost to bring a child back to health was $12 to $14 total (not per bag):
“It costs between $12 and $14 to feed a child back to health at home with the peanut butter mixture, Sandige said. The liquid milk therapy costs at least twice that much and is administered in hospitals and feeding centers, each with their own associated costs.”
I’m familiar with it because I had to treat a few people who were at death’s door due to starvation — sadly, it before this stuff was invented, but happily all my patients survived. It’s a delicate thing, what you feed them at first. In late stages of starvation these people are very fragile, especially children and the elderly.
Although this stuff was not available then, when I learned it had been invented I rejoiced and studied up on it. Of course I wished it had been invented earlier, but better late than never!
I don’t know how much it costs per year as administered through USAID or how much is wasted in their program. It’s distributed through a number of humanitarian organizations, not just USAID, so I hope they can pick up the slack for the time being.
You can read about it and the doctor who invented it here:
https://source.washu.edu/2004/08/peanut-butter-treatment-nourishes-starving-children/
When USAID was first begun back in the 1960s, it was doing this sort of real humanitarian aid. Sadly, it has morphed into a monster that does more harm than good nowadays. As I understood it, President trump plans to salvage the bits that do real good in the world with little to no waste, so the halting of this food aid may just be a temporary thing.
Bless you for asking instead of judging or making callous, flippant ignorant remarks (which sadly abound on this thread). Your good heart shines.
I find it very interesting how allergies have waned. My teenage niece and nephews have allergies along with a brunch of their classmates. My son is in a smaller school with about 45 kids across 3 grades and there are only 2 allergies , 1 to mango and another to eggs but no nut allergies.
Makes you wonder what has changed….
We can agree or disagree whether an individual aid program is good but the people running these agencies and NGOs have caused this if it is a good program. They have wasted or stolen so much from the taxpayers or done so much illegal or unethical things that no one trusts them. When they come out and scream about this, you say what are they trying to hide.
How about the pope sell some of his priceless knickknacks? The Vatican has more gold and
jewels than Fort Knox. It staggers the mind to realize how much wealth the pope has.
From MANA’s financial statement
https://mananutrition.org/files/Financials/2023-MANA-Audited-Financials.pdf
On page 14 MANA gets 94% of its revenue from ONE customer.
MANA has locked up their pdf and did not allow me to copy.
Don’t care.
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I’d like to see his “overhead”. And then I’d like to see where his “donations” go.
“Even before this happened, there wasn’t enough funding to treat all the children who were presenting wasting.”
Economic principles. 1. Needs are unlimited. 2. Resources are scarce.
Our country is broke. Children in Africa are being starved by their governments. No amount of Frakenbutter will end it.
Jiff!
That is also true-and it keeps the plebs dependent on the dictators that run the country for sustenance...
The Baby Milk Factory is next.
Skippy is THE best!
And as far as MY tax money being used to FED the world's poor, etc.,NO,NO MORE,ENOUGH ALREADY BEING "UNCLE SUGAR"!
Tax return
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/270165743/202420409349300127/full
Reminds me of Saddam Hussein’s ‘baby formula plant’.
I remember government ration peanut butter back in the 60’s and 70’s. A big #10 can, and semi-hard peanut butter cement. But it was great. I mean really great. It was like Crazy Richard’s brand.
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great stuff
When it was first invented, the peanuts were sourced locally in Africa. See the link in my post here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4300924/posts?page=124#124
I don’t know why it’s only produced in Georgia now, but I suspect it’s a case of Georgia having the right soil and climate plus the right farming practices to produce it more cheaply at scale, and perhaps ship it out globally at lower cost, too.
Aha. Now I see their website has a graphic explaining. Scroll down to the infographic titled “The Power of Scale”:
https://mananutrition.org/how-we-work/
Exactly!
I prefer creamy peanut butter myself.
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