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 a work around here.. Congrss can vote to Spend $x on this. That would be the cost of the PB and transportataion cost, as a one time thing.
It probably would cost $10k, for 100k packets of peanutbutter landed in Africa.
As opposed to an NGO, where we still pay for it. But, that route the “cost” per pack is probably $20/ea. then ad another $5/ per for “overhead and infrasructure”
Oh for Cripes sake!! There’s 50 different brands of peanut butter on store shelves to choose from. Maybe the government should get back to handing out surplus foods like they did years ago. I worked for the county welfare department in Rochester NY in 1965. They were handing out humongous cans of peanut butter and big slabs of American cheese to welfare recipients. That was before food stamps existed.
****Each small bag contains 500 calories’ worth of the special peanut butter — which does not require refrigeration or additional preparation****
Where can we buy this stuff, there is definitely a market for it.
As far as Americans buying it for foreigners, surely other countries can simply buy it themselves, put it on their store shelves and also make sure that foreign governments can buy it in bulk, it is a product, sell it to those who want to buy it.
Yet again I ask, where in the constitution does it state we have to pay for this?
Reminder - The USAID was being funded with BORROWED money.
That is, there is no money in the till and so the government has to borrow money to give away.
What did these groups do before USAID? If they were charities they would seek donations from the public. They now have programs like GO FUND ME to appeal for money.
I say again, the United States government is borrowing money to give away and it has to stop.
“Trump assault on USAID leaves plant that makes peanut butter for malnourished kids scrambling”
OMG !! The BEE had topped itself once more 🤣🤣
If CNN was as interested in finding and reporting on corruption in our government and its elections systems as they in finding those “poor” souls effected by government cutbacks and crying the “sky is falling” this country would be a lot better off and CNN might have some credibility.
CNN adds more bogus lights to it’s co.
Mark Moore is the CEO. Maybe Mark Moore can liquidate his home and savings and retirement and donate his own money to help these toothy grinned chilluns. Every employee can forgo a salary and become a Roosevelt "dollar a year" man. Jimmy Carter farmed a lot of peanuts. Ask his estate to donate all their peanuts to manufacturer Deadbeat Peanut Butter.
These people are going to have to think outside the box.
CNN. COMPLETELY NOT NEWS
there’s so many egg shortage stories, yet they waste this headline on a peanutbutter story?
How difficult would it be to write “Kids find themselves in a sticky situation...”
“I thought the Left said all children are allergic to peanuts”
Great point—I guess CNN wants to kill a bunch of folks in the third world—and then blame us for it!
Wow, so that’s where all those billions were going. Who’d a thunk it?
Perhaps the Administration can push the numerous privately funded organizations that assist with disasters and encourage taxpayers to donate/volunteer there. Trump did that with Reverend Graham in NC.
Cajun Navy….
The Trump administration will need to show it is not as tragic as the media and libs are saying. The left lie.
No, nursing homes really aren't closing and putting Granny on the curb.
I don't think their rhetoric should be ignored. Call out and prove their lies.
All income levels of Americans like their government funded programs. They want the fraud and waste out of them. People punished for it.
Not too many rural Trump voters want their county hospital closed.
Have Pfizer inject them all with a vaccine that causes peanut butter allergy, problem solved.
“CNN”. Pretty much told me all I need to know.
“The article doesn’t mention how tiny violin companies are booming.”
Clever. LOL.
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