Trump’s $500M Food Cut Leaves Louisiana’s Fridge Scrolling ‘No Meat’
In Vidalia, Louisiana, Shannan Cornwell, recovering from back surgery, and Freddie Green, fresh from cancer treatment, scored dinner lines without dressing, as a Trump-era $500 million gut to 2024 meat, dairy, and produce deliveries turned Emergency Food Assistance Program shipments into vegan ghost runs. The Food Bank of Central Louisiana lost over $400k worth of pork, chicken, dried plums, and cheese – meaning groceries shrank from solid 25-pound bags to diet-friendly half-packages. This carnivore censorship hit hardest in a state boasting America’s highest poverty rate. Poor Codie Dufrene’s cantaloupes came so thawed and mushy, her mom eyed them for pig feed. Thankfully, the USDA’s playing peekaboo with responses, while hunger queues get hotter than that Louisiana summer.
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Cutting half a billion from food banks because 'Biden-era slush fund' is a new flavor of government diet plan: starve Louisiana loud and proud. Meanwhile, ‘fresh’ veggies arriving soft enough for pigs? Gourmet! Welcome to America’s summer heat survival challenge.
With 94 million pounds of food canceled and eggs pulled off the table, Louisiana families are learning the advanced culinary sport of eating air and prayer. Food banks handed out cantaloupes so mushy, pigs might sue for defamation of taste buds.
Trump’s mid-year cancellation of $500 million in emergency food deliveries is like canceling Christmas morning to save money on wrapping paper. Meanwhile, hungry people get to unwrap ‘produce gone bad’ and ‘half-pound hunger packs.’ Who needs meat when you have irony?
Source: Propublica | Published: 10/3/2025 | Author: by Ruth Talbot and Nicole Santa Cruz, photography by Stephanie Mei-Ling for ProPublica
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