Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Incinerating food aid

 Here's a story from The Atlantic about a decision that captures the Trump administration's policies towards food aid, carbon emissions, and the Biden administration:

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste
. By Hana Kiros 

"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. Nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food—enough to feed about 1.5 million children for a week—are set to expire tomorrow, according to current and former government employees with direct knowledge of the rations. Within weeks, two of those sources told me, the food, meant for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, will be ash.

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"Sometime near the end of the Biden administration, USAID spent about $800,000 on the high-energy biscuits,"

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