The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food

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  1. Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people abroad who need it, Hana Kiros reports. Nearly 500 tons of emergency food—enough to feed about 1.5 million children for a week—are sitting in a U.S. warehouse, set to expire. [https://theatln.tc/hZCTH9jX](https://theatln.tc/hZCTH9jX)

    According to current and former government employees with direct knowledge of the rations, this food, meant for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, will be ash within weeks. It will be destroyed at a cost of $130,000 to American taxpayers (on top of the $800,000 used to purchase the food), sources told Kiros. “Sometimes food isn’t stored properly in warehouses, or a flood or a terrorist group complicates deliveries; that might result in, at most, a few dozen tons of fortified foods being lost in a given year,” Kiros writes. “But several of the aid workers I spoke with reiterated that they have never before seen the U.S. government simply give up on food that could have been put to good use.”

    Despite the Trump administration’s repeated promises to continue food aid, and testimony from Secretary of State Marco Rubio affirming that he would not allow existing food to go to waste, even more food could soon expire, Kiros reports.

    Read more: [https://theatln.tc/hZCTH9jX](https://theatln.tc/hZCTH9jX)

  3. Let me guess, expiring food is being dumped like it usually is and the press is being melodramatic about it?

  4. No profit, no point of giving it away. America is a for profit country. Eventually the average citizen will fall under this yoke of tyranny

  5. the defunding of USAID is going to kill so many people.

    and its going to be a dull boring type of death and just go unnoticed.

  6. Why is it not selled cheaply to a N.G.O. or a foreign government? Ridiculous.

  7. How long until the negative reaction prompts another Biden blaming?

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