Larry Jaques wrote:

You're misguided, Tim. Do some more research about starvation in the
USA today. It's rampant.

That's just plain silly.

Aside from an occasional insane parent withholding food from a child there
have been no deaths due to starvation in living memory.

There might be some odd sets of hunger, such as having a child go to bed
without supper, but starvation? Absolutely not.

I'll go even further: There has never been a famine in a democracy. There
HAVE been food shortages in some areas (of India for example) caused by
inept governments or transportation woes, but never a legitimate famine.