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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More malicious compliance as Trump exempted direct food aid like this.
This is petty USAID workers deliberately canceling exempted direct food aid so they can squeal about it in the press.
Oh no. The baby milk factory!!!
Maybe individual countries and their populations should take responsibility for feeding their children—and not having more children than they can feed?
Investigative journalists should follow the peanut butter.
No SPECIFICS of what countries these “malnourished” kids were in.
The picture from Reuters is from 2019 and a stock photo.
There is really no indication if the kids are handling the peanut butter packets.
Fake news.
Gotta do better.
Time for democrat mega donors to cough up some of that serious green and do something useful for a change.
There are supposed to be waivers for lifesaving humanitarian aid like food and medicine. It appears the colossal USAID bureaucracy has gummed up the flow of this aid.
I would not put it past snakes at USAID and State Department to obstruct this aid on purpose to make Trump and Musk look bad, and that is likely happening. But part of the problem seems to be confusion and disruption in countries on the receiving end (which might be caused by bureaucratic incompetence or maliciously by higher ups Stateside — or both).
Article here:
Hey CNN, you can fund it, er ah sorry with your usaid finding cut you can’t afford it either, neither can US taxpayers
Soon to be reported “The Death of Little Nell!”
I’m a choosy mother. I choose Jiff creamy.
After eating peanut butter for 70 years, now I find out that it needs refrigeration?
Sound like something Bill Gates can get behind.
I reformed, went to JIF and never went back.
In fact, I think I’ll get a spoon and have some.
Maybe theat should institute freedom and property rights in these s*******e countries and they could make their own peanut butter.
Let the Soros family pay for it!
They were only charging $800 per cup of peanut butter to the taxpayers. What is the problem?
Ah but the article says the milk is whipped right in...
for African children...
that cant drink milk when they are in the US...
because “they cant digest it” and its white so its racist.
So this is better because it contains non-racist milk.
Thats a good point, it would.
But the peanut butter companies already package it in little plastic cups.
Im sure the people at any one of the present companies would be willing to make as much as youre willing to pay for.
They might even be willing to package it up with some crackers or something for a few more cents.
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