Peanut butter rains from heavens

Tomorrow’s forecast: slightly breezy with 100 percent chance of peanut butter.

It may sound like the storyline of a children’s book, but a Georgia company plans to launch peanut products through the air and into the hands of elected officials Friday at 10 a.m.

It’s all part of a live airdrop of nutrition-packed food products to be conducted at Tara Field near the Atlanta Motor Speedway. The event will demonstrate deliverability of food products developed to assist USAID and humanitarian relief agencies.

Herman Cain, nationally recognized radio host and a WND columnist, is scheduled to present the product and delivery system.

Bell Plantation Inc. has developed food products that are super-enriched with vitamins and minerals to nourish the world’s underfed population. The two products, known as PB Emergency and PB Sustain, contain much of the same ingredients found in its current product, PB2 Powdered Peanut Butter.

PB Emergency and PB Sustain will be packaged in aerodynamic foil sleeves containing six individual packages each. The packages are designed to float from a low-flying plane into the hands of aid workers – reducing or potentially eliminating risk of pirate attacks, convoy hijacking and theft.

J.C. Bell, founder and president of Bell Research Companies, explained that the food products will allow hunger-relief agencies to deliver food supplies without the risk and cost of long conveys that are often attacked.

“The traditional method of delivering hunger relief involves shipping the supplies to the affected areas, then off-loading onto truck convoys that are often attacked, hijacked or stolen by local warlords,” Bell explained in a statement. “Our new product will not only eliminate that process but the food itself is much more nutritious and easier to administer.”

The U.S. Department of Agriculture sought the help of Bell Plantation last year to improve its humanitarian efforts for starving and malnourished people around the world.

More than one-quarter of a million tons of food relief – or enough to care for 1.3 million people for an entire year – were lost in 2008 due to piracy, according to Bell Plantation.

One sleeve can feed an adult for an entire day and has a shelf life of two years. The products pack daily nutrients in one daily serving of peanut-based flour. The goods are lightweight and wrapping around each pallet is designed to disintegrate, allowing each sleeve to flutter to the ground.

Bell Plantation explains, “The goal of this initiative is to safely and successfully deliver nourishing food daily to as many hungry people in suffering countries as possible.”