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On the recordJune 11, 2013
Sometimes it seems that we lose sight of why we have a food aid program in the first place. It isn't to subsidize growers, shippers, or NGOs. It is to prevent men, women, and children in the developing world from starving to death.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Engel emphasizes the primary purpose of food aid is to prevent starvation.

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