I would rather eat a humble meal in the joy of realising it released food for others and land for other species than maintain our present course.
To realise others starve while you eat plenty is a form of soul death, one paper cut bite at a time.
The control of food is the control of people, of the right to live in comfort as opposed to suffering. Starvation in a world of enough food is a clear sign of neurological damage in those that make global choices.
Starvation is the cruelest form of emotional indifference a world can inflict upon any sentient creature, human or otherwise.
In the pandemic we ordered all grains edible by humans kept for direct consumption by people and the excess animal herd slaughtered and frozen as reserve food. The newly fallow land was then put to the plough. This way we fended off the starvations that have historically followed disease.
She starved to death in a room full of food, all because the money had piled up in the pockets of others. How they wrung their hands over her corpse, if only there had been some way to give her food...
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