Trump cancelled 94 million pounds of food aid in the US.

[applegrove]

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

— ProPublica (@propublica.org) 2025-10-11T18:31:27.788111176Z

[question everything]

1. Certainly does not deserve a peace prize

[Irish_Dem]

2. Who else used/uses starvation as a war strategy?

[underpants]

4. Ooh I know

God how horrible

[Irish_Dem]

11. Israel is deliberately starving Gaza.

Putin is trying to starve Ukraine.

Trump is trying to starve Americans and the world.

[applegrove]

5. The British. Probably most old empires. Here's more:

https://theconversation.com/starving-civilians-is-an-ancient-military-tactic-but-today-its-a-war-crime-in-ukraine-yemen-tigray-and-elsewhere-184297

[AZJonnie]

7. History is in fact ripe with "wars of attrition"

It's a strategy as old as war itself

[Irish_Dem]

9. Yes most likely ancient in origin.

[Hekate]

8. Soviet Union vs Ukraine, with no pretext of crop failure. They just took the harvest ...

Soldiers even poked up chimneys for hidden grain.

My family history, like yours, includes a slew of immigrants fleeing the Potato Famine. As far as I can tell, though, the rest of the disaster was sheer callousness, a crime in its own right. But the USSR set out to kill off the Ukrainians in the breadbasket of Europe.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Yes the British starved the Irish.

[Captain Zero]

12. Only State Terrorists can do that.

nt

[Irish_Dem]

13. Trump is terrorizing Americans.

Americans who pay him to serve the public.

[multigraincracker]

3. Free soy beans for everyone.

[TheBlackAdder]

6. First he jams farmers with USAid, now with cutting American aid.