2mo ago

Food For Millions Rots in Storage After Trump’s USAID Cuts

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Wasting food. Something only billionaires would think is ok to do.
- And wasting children's lives.
  Nearly 500 tons of high-energy biscuits in Dubai are set to expire in July, one former USAID official told Reuters. They could have fed 27,000 acutely malnourished children for a month.
  “If a child’s in an inpatient stabilization center and they’re no longer able to access treatment,” said Jeanette Bailey from the International Rescue Committee, “more than 60 percent of those children are at risk of dying very quickly.”
- to "save money"
When people started saying “The cruelty is the point.”, I was skeptical and thought there had to be other motivations that we just weren’t privy to. But every day brings more evidence that the “cruelty is the point” folks were right and I was just overthinking it.
- It has to be. If it was really about saving money, they'd distribute what was already purchased and cut off future funding (well, if it was really about saving money, they'd look at the defense budget first), not let things we already paid for rot. This administration is made up of people who genuinely get off on the cruelty, like Kristi Noem and Steven Miller, and people who see it as a side effect that they don't really care about.
Another DOGE succes.
Damn, the poors can't even get cake these days.

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