Probably so. But this is definitely something that should be cut from our budget no matter where the food is coming from. We have people starving in our country and we are giving it to other countries. I hate how this country operates sometimes.
The other side to this is that giving free food to backward countries hurts their farmers. Who can make a living off the land if they have to compete with free food?
“We have people starving in our country and we are giving it to other countries”
Nobody other than the odd drug addict, if them; is starving in America. The poor in America are generally obese. They are really only poor when compared with other Americans. Go to India, or almost anywhere in Africa and large parts of Asia and see how the poor really live.
Those “Poverty stricken” Americans the demondogs talk about would be upper middle class in most of the world. They have enough food, they have power, some access to health care, an automobile, a cell phone, more than one suit of clothing, running water and indoor plumbing. They have heat in the winter and many times AC in the summer. They have access to 12 years of education.
The whole idea of “poverty” in the US is so ridiculous as to be laughable.
That said, most humanitarian aid administered by governments does appear, in my experience to be fairly corrupt. Let Caritas or The Baptist Men do the job. They’ll feed more people with better food for less money.