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Topic: Trump Admin to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Meant for Children
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teasel Knowflake Posts: 31813 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted July 15, 2025 01:07 PM
http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-to-incinerate-500-tons-of-emergency-food-for-children/ The Trump administration has ordered 500 metric tons of emergency food aid—enough to feed 1.5 million malnourished children for a week—to be incinerated tomorrow rather than be distributed as part of its ongoing purge of USAID. The high-energy biscuits, intended for children under five living in war and disaster zones, are currently being stored in a warehouse in Dubai and were meant to be shipped out this year, but will instead go to waste due to cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effectively halting nearly all forms of foreign aid. Current and former aid workers, speaking anonymously for fear of retaliation, told The Atlantic that the sheer scale of waste is unprecedented. Despite repeated assurances from the administration not to eliminate food aid, U.S. warehouses around the world currently house 60,000 tons of food, including peas and cereal originally bound for famine-stricken Sudan, which the administration is now unable to deliver even if it wanted to after gutting USAID and firing logistical experts. According to The Atlantic, the amount of food set to be incinerated tomorrow would be enough to feed every single child currently starving in Gaza.
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teasel Knowflake Posts: 31813 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted July 15, 2025 01:08 PM
the pro-death, anti-child president. IP: Logged |
teasel Knowflake Posts: 31813 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted July 15, 2025 01:52 PM
"The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.""There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange." - John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath IP: Logged |
PhoenixRising Knowflake Posts: 3984 From: Registered: May 2011
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posted July 15, 2025 01:57 PM
I have to read the links in details. But I trust it because I do believe there is a genocide of the Americans going on. Section 8 gone, prescription (most made in china) going to hit the roof soon and meet disruption of schedules, farmers bypassed and turned over to Corporations, Soldiers mental healthness undermined as ships renamed after soldiers(sold to heirs) who actually died, etc etcElites get away with all the laws(Trump escaped taxes) but if we commit one crime they threaten us with deportation.
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Randall Webmaster Posts: 207083 From: I hold a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) and a Legum Magister (LL.M.)! Registered: Apr 2009
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posted July 15, 2025 01:57 PM
The Daily Beast is trash. Post some real sources. IP: Logged | |