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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Yup—the emotional blackmail is pathetic—almost hilarious.
FAFO—mass media dirtbags.
No wonder peanut butter got so expensive!!!
Europe can send the kids some Nutella instead. Australia can kick in some Vegemite too.
Oh, boo-hoo. If it’s in a USAID packet and you really care about it, just go ahead and distribute it rather than throw it away. Again, maybe if we stop feeding every malnutritioned African, their own country would start taking care of its people. We have kids in the US who are hungry, too. Feed them first, then if any is left over, sell it to the African nations. There no reason to expect the US taxpayer to feed everyone in the world.
Noooo! Jif Extra Crunchy.
“Baby Milk Factory”
More fake news from CNN
I had to look at the byline to see if this was the Babylon Bee. You have to be kidding me.
Close that whole organization down
If this is such a great idea have Bill Gates and the rest of the WEF billionaire boys club fund it. Another idea would be to have the local governments finally take responsibility for their people
When US Citizens who lost everything in natural disasters are being told “here is your $700 check, sorry we are too broke to do anything else for you”, the US Government has no business trying to fund everything for everyone everywhere in the world.
I have no obligation to take money I earn and need for me and my family and turn it over, by being forced, to anyone else.
The Lord told me to be charitable to others—but that is my personal obligation; He didn’t instruct the government to rob me to give it to others.
But isn’t peanut butter bad for your health?
Come on now, CNN and ilk can be expected to do actual journalistic investigating can they? their dozen or so viewers might blow a gasket if they ever saw the truth.
I thought the Left said all children are allergic to peanuts ? LOl
The peanut butter paste has anti bloating agents infused into the paste. It helps keep the tribes in far away places slim and trim. Their only complaint is the U.S. tax payers didn’t include milk and jam.
oh my, that great big orange evil man is stealing the very PB sandwiches out of the mouths of defenseless little childrens
oh my!
Not me. I’m a choosy mother.
What about the dreaded peanut allergies? Think of the lives we will save not killing them.
Is this Plumpy Nut? Why should we subsidize the company that makes it?
For Pete’s sake. So, REPUBLICANS are killing people by not feeding the spawn of welfare queens???????
Why don’t they use the money their parents get for food stamps or have the free breakfasts and lunches for nutrition.
Weren’t we told that “humanitarian aid”, like food and water did not, and has not stopped, only the woke crap and zero explanation crap was stopped?
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