Confession-shock: foods that could feed 3.5 million people for a month rot in four warehouses

Food portions that could feed 3.5 million people within a month are rotting in warehouses around the world due to US aid cuts and are in danger of becoming useless, according to five persons who know the situation, who quotes a report. Food stocks have been kept in four US government warehouses since the Trump government decided in January to discontinue global relief programs, according to three persons who previously worked at the US International Development Service and with two persons from help organizations. Some of these foods are likely to end in July and are likely to be destroyed, either with incineration, being used as feeds or rejected in other ways, they said two of the sources. Warehouses managed by the USA (USAID) Department of Humanitarian Aid (BHA) contain between 60,000 to 66,000 metric tons of food supplied by US farmers and manufacturers, […]
Source: News Beast

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