A Country that Burns Food for Starving Children Is Not Great
UNITED STATES, JUL 16 – The Trump administration will destroy nearly 500 tons of emergency food aid worth $793,000 purchased under Biden, enough to feed 27,000 people for a month, due to expiration and program changes.
- The Trump administration directed the disposal of close to 500 tons of nutrient-rich food aid valued at $793,000, which was intended to provide nourishment to people in crisis zones such as refugee camps and conflict areas.
- This action follows the dismantling of USAID and relates to food stocks nearing expiration that were purchased as contingencies under the Biden administration.
- The emergency food supplies, consisting mainly of fortified high-energy wheat biscuits stored in Dubai, were enough to nourish approximately 1.5 million children for one week or sustain about 27,000 individuals for an entire month, but are slated to be destroyed through incineration or landfilling.
- Activists protested this decision on April 17, 2025, by piling up hundreds of mock coffins outside the State Department, demanding the restoration of PEPFAR and aid funding.
- The destruction highlights concerns that cutting aid and family planning funding could worsen health outcomes and increase deaths, while geopolitical influence in East Africa grows for China as US presence recedes.
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A country that burns food for starving children is not great
The BDN Editorial Board operates independently from the newsroom, and does not set policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. A country that is great does not burn food destined to starving people. It does not allow a president to unilaterally undo spending decisions made by Congress even as that Congress works on new budgets, that could also be disregarded. Its Supreme Court wou…


Almost 500 tons of so-called energy cookies stored in Dubai reach their expiry date and become ash due to foreign aid cuts
500 tons of emergency food should be sent to starving children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but now food is being destroyed, which is linked to a decree by US President Donald Trump.
Food worth hundreds of thousands of dollars is to be destroyed, as a high-ranking U.S. official admits. They were meant for starving people in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration was held on Wednesday after the press revealed that tons of food for children suffering from malnutrition will be burned because they have exhausted, at a time when the United States is seriously reducing external aid, reports AFP.
At the end of the term, the Biden government is buying 500 tons of emergency food for starving children in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Trump then shortens US foreign aid. Food has been around ever since, and now there is to be an absurd solution.
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