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USAID: Starving children vs Ebola

Editor: Peanuts are a part of my life. As a five-year-old in 1942, I rode on my father’s Farmall B tractor while cultivating them near Sutherland Springs. I grew them near Stockdale until moving away in the 1960s. Plumpy’Nut is a product made from peanuts at a plant in Georgia. It provides essential nutrients for severely malnourished children. This “miracle paste” has saved millions of starving children in Africa from certain death. Wilson County peanuts may have been used. USAID provides Plumpy’Nut. It gives thriving life to children. Elon Musk’s DOGE cut this program. At the February Cabinet meeting, Musk...

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