More than 60,000 metric tons of food have languished in warehouses in the US and around the world. 15,000 pounds of food have languished for months and expired in a Georgia warehouse before they could be sent overseas to famine-stricken areas like Sudan. Mana Nutrition's warehouse holds plenty more of the peanut paste, a crucial element in treating malnutrition. A $50 million supply has been stacked for months in their facility as the Trumpf junta upended foreign aid and the food was never shipped. The food could still help 60 million people, Mana estimates. "This is a giant glut," David Todd Harmon said. "All contracted. All bought and paid for. It's just not been picked up." Mana's decision to jettison part of its food cache was the third instance in recent weeks in which important nutrition and family planning assistance slated for overseas was marked for destruction.
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