USAID shut down resulting in rotting food
- North Shore Democrats of Travis County
- 1 day ago
- 1 min read
By Mike Killalea
More than 60,000 metric tons of U.S. food aid sitting in storage
Food stocks stuck due to USAID cuts and are at risk of expiry, sources say
Trump's aid cuts come amid rising global hunger levels
USAID decommissioning disrupts aid distribution, aid workers say
Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people for a month are moldering in warehouses around the world because of U.S. aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to five people familiar with the situation. Reuters reported the story.
The food stocks have been stuck inside four U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programs, according to three people who previously worked at the U.S. Agency for International Development and two sources from other aid organizations.
Reuters reports that stocks due to expire as early as July are likely to be destroyed, either by incineration, using them as animal feed or disposing of them in other ways, two sources said.
The warehouses, run by USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), contain between 60,000 to 66,000 metric tons of food, sourced from American farmers and manufacturers, the five people said.
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