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https://frac.org/hunger-poverty-america
If you say "well, not many people are really starving, if people just have to skip meals or suffer from malnutrition that doesn't count", congratulations, you're part of the problem.
The United States has so much food that no one should be going hungry.
Frankly, the world has so much food that no one in it should be going hungry, but the United States specifically doesn't have the excuse of civil war or crop failures or complete government dysfunction. We let our children go hungry from capitalism and spite.
I'm not American idiot.
But you talked about society, and the US is part of that, is it not?
Feels like you're deliberately avoiding the meat of OP's argument to catch them on a technicality
Yea, it was a low effort reply because the guy I replied to was moving the goalposts.