The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food

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"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 who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social
, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
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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.
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July 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM

"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 who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending 0,000 to burn food worth 0,000
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— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social) 2025-07-15T05:31:51.599Z

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The administration will incinerate enough food to feed 1.5 million children for a week. When it burns, its label will read: THIS PRODUCT IS A GIFT FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 500 tons, from us, to no one.

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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.
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July 15, 2025 at 9:16 AM

The administration will incinerate enough food to feed 1.5 million children for a week. When it burns, its label will read: THIS PRODUCT IS A GIFT FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 500 tons, from us, to no one.

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— Hana Kiros (@hana-kiros.bsky.social) 2025-07-15T13:16:03.435Z

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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

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JULY 14, 2025, 10:21 PM ET

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. (The sources I spoke with for this story requested anonymity for fear of professional repercussions.)

Sometime near the end of the Biden administration, USAID spent about $800,000 on the high-energy biscuits, one current and one former employee at the agency told me. The biscuits, which cram in the nutritional needs of a child under 5, are a stopgap measure, often used in scenarios where people have lost their homes in a natural disaster or fled a war faster than aid groups could set up a kitchen to receive them. They were stored in a Dubai warehouse and intended to go to the children this year.

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[babylonsister]

1. WHY? This is beyond disgusting. nt

[tonkatoy8888]

2. Obscene

I know some think that photos and videos of people bumping uglies is obscene, but they're wrong.

This right here, destroying enough food to keep 1.5 million infants and children alive for a week is truly the real obscenity.

I simply can't understand the mindset of people who would do this. We're officially a long, long way from "compassionate conservatism" and have arrived posthaste at "sophomoric sadism".

I'd love to live long enough to see Stephen Miller shambling around the courtyard of Spandau Prison with Don, Pete. Pam, and Kristi.

[Danmel]

3. This physically hurts my heart

Depraved.

[yorkster]

4. Unforgivable.

[efhmc]

5. Is there anything we as citizens can do about it? Open it up to donations by other entities?

[wordstroken]

16. Excellent idea. We've got to do something. What about a liberal millionaire buying more food?

🦋 wordstroken

[patphil]

6. This is consistent with the Trumpian policy of killing black and brown people.

Instead of distributing all the stockpiles of food that were purchased for the USAID program, they are just going to burn it. This is just too despicable for words.
Starvation is a terrible way to die. Unfortunately, the people who did this will eat well today, sleep in a warm, dry bed, and continue on with their lives tomorrow as if nothing horrible is happening in those areas where the food was supposed to be distributed.
And millions of Americans will continue on with their lives, either oblivious to the carnage, or uncaring.

[MaineBlueBear]

7. Trump's America!

Was never about caring for the less fortunate.

[CaptainTruth]

8. The whole Trump regime can burn too, IMHO.

[kimbutgar]

9. Just when you think they can't go lower they go lower

By the time this administration is over they will be at the earths core and I hope we survive his carnage and mayhem.

[3auld6phart]

14. One

Can truly hope , when their t comes. Their demise will be slow and painful, sans any pain killers. Roger’s Supreme Court the six stooges, drumpfh, Miller. Kristi and those repuke chicken. Shit traitors, may you time be really slow and painful. Die freaks. .. I approve this message.

[BoRaGard]

10. G.O.P. is rabidly anti-christian

[evemac]

11. Such evil and cruelty

I cannot wrap my head around why.

[Wild blueberry]

12. Waste

[hay rick]

13. Because empathy is the problem and, apparently, common decency.

[GiqueCee]

15. So let me get this straight...

... the emergency rations are already in or near the populations for whom they were intended, so the funds to produce and deliver them were already approved and disbursed, and yet this unspeakably evil asshole, whose every word and action defiles everything to which this once great nation ever aspired, has given the order to destroy it all anyway. The stomach-wrenching stench of Nosferatu Miller surrounds this scheme like a poisonous cloud.
What's even more sickening is that nearly half the country still thinks he's someone to admire. A pox on ALL their houses.

[Botany]

17. Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300,000 deaths -- most of them children

When Brooke Nichols plugged in the data, she couldn’t comprehend what she was seeing.

The mathematician and professor of infectious diseases at Boston University had created a model to predict the human cost of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (Doge) USAid funding cuts.

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What Nichols had not appreciated was what was killing people, and just how quickly it appeared to be killing them. A death was estimated to be happening somewhere in the world every three minutes. “It was just shocking,” she said.

As Elon Musk, the head of Doge, arrived at the White House on Friday afternoon to be congratulated by President Trump for his work slashing the federal budget, the number of deaths on Nichols’s tracker hit 300,000, more than 200,000 of them children.

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Their racism is on full on display.

“They” would rather let the food rot or burn it than give it to black people in Africa. This is not only
Trump’s racism but also Elon Musk’s South Afrikaner beliefs too. They also let tens of thousands of
of kits that keep starving people from dying from diarrhea go to waste too. Hell, they are just n*****s.
I wonder if Trump’s Christian supporters understand that their Jesus was black.

These are Pol Pot, Hitler, and Stalin type of #s.

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/usaid-doge-deaths-children-cuts-7nb83dfkp

[ihaveaquestion]

18. Further Proof that the Shitstain in Chief is also the ....

WASTEr in Chief,
FRAUDster in Chief,
and
ABUSEr in Chief

DOGE should have just tossed him out to save us all a ton of money and trouble.

Elon can't get the MAGATs organized fast enough (like that's happening )

[RealityBasedNewYorkr]

19. What would Jesus burn

Super-Christians, the whole lot

[paulrevere2018]

20. More cruelty from the pro-life, pro-child party.

Is there a single shred of evidence anywhere that they are pro-child?

[democrank]

21. So perfectly MAGA-cruel. So perfectly Trump-Revengeful

Fist bump for starvation. Honk if you love to cause suffering.

[Blue Owl]

22. Hey Democrats in office -- how about some hell-raising?

This would make a great ad.

[Scalded Nun]

23. You want to see evil?...This is evil.

[BoRaGard]

24. darkness darkness (R) Garbage values lead to garbage results