I know it's my question, but I would def put it back, and if people are as good and decent as most people still believe, there probably wouldn't be quite so many overweight people in the world, of which I am one.
I don't see the connection between being overweight and not being good and decent? Are you making the supposition that the more one eats, then he's preventing food from getting to another person?
I like the question, but can't help but question the underlying logic as well. But of course I see what you're saying. I guess I just believe there is enough food in the world for everyone just that the access to the food is not there. And I don't think overweight people need this excuse to stop from over eating. I will not pretend I know how to treat over eating though, I am sure it's easier said than done.
I agree that the problem with world hunger is not that there isn't enough food (although I would argue that over pesticide and generically over engineered crops isn't what I want to call food, but that is a different story) but how to get food across the world in the hands of hungry people.
it just means - would you think twice about helping yourself to unnecessary food if it meant the equivalent food would 'disappear' from the 'mouth' of a starving child? Would you go without so that another could have as it were?
It's a good question. I think most people would definitely pass up what they didn't need if they knew it would help someone who really needed it. In the context of not buying more food than you need because it could go to starving african child doesn't seem to make sense because your wonderbread is not going to magic itself all the way to Africa into the hands of a child.
But if you can accept that you would do such a thing then you can look at our foreign policy, our trade agreements, the distribution of food around the world and how we benefit from certain unfair laws I think it would be easier for us to give up certain cheaper foods and go fair trade(provided it genuinely is fairtrade, fairtrade items sometimes end up not being so economically fair).
Are you making the supposition that the more one eats, then he's preventing food from getting to another person?
But if you can accept that you would do such a thing then you can look at our foreign policy, our trade agreements, the distribution of food around the world and how we benefit from certain unfair laws I think it would be easier for us to give up certain cheaper foods and go fair trade(provided it genuinely is fairtrade, fairtrade items sometimes end up not being so economically fair).