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Do you have any evidence to back up this contention? Could it have been done had the contracts to do so not been cancelled?
I don't know any of it, just like you don't know that they didn't have any alternative. I do know that burning it would send a message consistant with Trump's foreign aid policy, whereas disposing of it in a less spectacular way would not.
Yes, they could have had they followed the plans made when they bought the food. Instead, the Trump administration allowed the food to just sit in a warehouse. It isn't expired yet. They could even send it around the US to food banks.
But they could have sent the food overseas in compliance, but the Trump administration chose not to and to let the food just sit.
And distribution was cost free?Say what?You're arguing that an option impossible to exercise counts as a "choice"? What aninteresting take on the idea of choice: they chose to not do the impossible!
Please add to our store of known facts: they were in charge of distributing food; they decided not to; the food is reaching expiration date; they decide to destroy rather than distribute. The initial choice to cancel the existing contracts to distribute the food, knowing that food expires, was theirs. The choice to not distribute the food as the months passed was also theirs.
What sources would those be? If I had any "sources" I would certainly share them, because all I see here is guesses, including mine. But when I see food that was intended for the poor destroyed in that spectacular way I wonder why, and all I see is an act that is consistent (as if anything in the Trump administration can be called consistent) with Trump's foreign policy--no foreign aid for you unless you toe the line, we'd rather burn it. And then I come here and find that whatever the real reason, he has done good thing because it upsets "Liberals." It's lunatic.
Not defending Trump but it does beg the question of when that food was stored and for how long it has been collecting dust. Does anyone know what the shelf life of this food is?Here is an article about it:
Trump admin set to burn nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food
The food is set to expire soon after the USAID program was shut down and could no longer distribute the foodwww.the-express.com
It includes this:
To make matters worse, The Atlantic reveals that even more food may soon expire and have to be discarded. Hundreds of thousands of "boxes of emergency food pastes, also already purchased, are currently collecting dust in American warehouses," the publication reports.This includes about 60,000 metric tons of food already bought by the government that is now "sitting in warehouses across the world." It remains uncertain what will become of most of this food.President Donald Trump's cuts to the USAID office are projected to result in the deaths of '14 million people,' many of whom are children, according to a recent study published in The Lancet.
Are you implying that the value of one child's life, or two children's lives, or the 1.5 million children who would get another week's worth of food would not be worth cost of distribution? If it were your child's life would you not believe that any price was enough?
