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 Trump assault on USAID also killed cute, fuzzy kittens and adorable big-eyed puppies.
Twice.
No! Jif Creamy.
Oh NOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoes!!!
Not a “Baby Milk Factory!!!”
OrangeMan stealing pbj sammiches from starving orphans? Do I want to read that?
No I want to read about him ripping whole courts out from under black robed DEI-raised judges.
No wonder peanut butter got so expensive!!!
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my Jiffy peanut butter doesn’t require refrigeration either
Excellent point! They make a product. They can sell it at Whole Foods and upscale supermarkets. With the profits, they can fund their own charity work to feed the li'l starvin' chilluns. "Newman's Own" peanut butter.
OMG!!! What about Skippy, Peer Pan, & Smuckers?? like they won’t sell peanut butter to starving kids.
Have Chelsea Cllinton use her US Aid money on this instead of the $1200/meal she’s been providing African children. Wouldn’t even have to change the labels since it’s still US Aid funded. It would just actually go to feeding children rather than buying more homes for Clinton.
If CNN is upset that means something good has happened.
Not our job to feed children in Africa - or anywhere else.
BOVINE SCATOLOGY
It would also sell at REI and Cabela’s.
Malnourished people in the Congo claim U.S. taxpayers are trying to kill them with the strange brown paste!
Some reports out of Ustinkistan say people are choking to death from the U.S. supplied paste. Their leaders are demanding U.S. taxpayers supply milk.
I'm under 50 and don't know anyone allergic to peanuts. Sadly, I do know a bunch of them who can't spell the word or sell a jar and give you correct change. Tell them Peter Pan is a real person and they are liable to believe it. :(
FALSE.
No crap. When did that happen? What did they do to peanuts?
What is wrong with regular peanut butter? How much do these pouches cost? What is this program costing per year? How much is lost to waste or fraud?
This peanut-based food is peanut butter, powdered milk, vitamins, and electrolytes given to starving children in famine-stricken areas. It isn’t normal peanut butter.
Funds can be found for it, just not from USAID.
FWIW, peanut allergies don’t exist in the third world
That company should have hired Americans. So it’s their fault those poor kids are starving.
Make their parents feed them. Problem solved.
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