Source: examiner.com
William Lambers

This Sunday, July 10 is the birthday of one of America’s great treasures, the Food for Peace program. President Dwight Eisenhower, or Ike, signed into law what was originally known as public law 480 on July 10, 1954.

The idea was to send U.S. surplus food overseas to fight hunger, and what better way to build a peaceful world than to defeat the cause of so much desperation and instability: hunger. Eisenhower said, “food can be a powerful instrument for all the free world in building a durable peace.”

Countries that have received Food for Peace support over the years include India, South Korea, Italy, Japan, Austria, Germany, Poland, and Brazil. During the Kennedy administration, there was a big windfall of school feeding for a number of countries.

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