The media is trying to push outrage over USAID foreign aid cuts by claiming that the food is going bad.

Food that could feed 3.5 million people for a month has reportedly been left to rot in warehouses across the world because of USAID cuts.

Around 60,000 metric tons of supplies meant for regions such as Gaza and Sudan are stuck in warehouses in Houston, Djibouti, Durban and Dubai, according to aid agency sources.

It comes after US president Donald Trump cut funding to the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in January.

Some stocks are due to expire as early as July and will likely to be destroyed or used as animal feed, the sources told Reuters.

The warehouses are run by USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), while the food is sourced from US farmers and manufacturers they said.

The supplies are worth more than $98 million, according to a document reviewed by Reuters, which was shared by an aid official and verified by a US government source as up to date.

Why not use that food to feed Americans instead of feeding America’s enemies?

The food warehoused in Houston should be easiest to reappropriate to aid Americans? The food already in the Middle East may not be worth the cost of transportation, but it’s worth looking into. Even if the food isn’t worth shipping back to the United States, it could always be resold on the open market.

The one thing that should not be done with the food is sending it to Gaza or other enemy regions.

And USAID needs to be shut down.