The amount of food a socitey has controls the population growth. It has been proven that the more food = more people.
Daniel Quinn states that "At present there are five and a half billion of you here, and, though millions of you are starving, you’re producing enough food for six billion. And because you’re producing enough food for six billion, it’s a biological certainty that in three of four years there will be six billion of you. By that time, however (even though millions of you will still be starving), you’ll be producing enough food for six and a half billion- which means that in another three or four years there will be six and a half billion. But by that time you’ll be producing enough food for seven billion (even though millions of you will still be starving), which again means that in another three of four years there will be seven billion of you. In order to halt this process, you must face the fact that increasing food production doesn’t feed your hungry, it only fuels your population explosion.”
So by sending food to 3rd world counties we are ultimatly making the population larger and creating more mouth to feed in the furture. If we continue to grow the world will eventually be so populated that it is impossible for everyone to eat. So is it really the right thing to do? It's hard to just stand by and not help others when you know it's possible, but is it worth it if it is hurting us in the future? There will always be famine in the world no matter how hard we try to feed everyone. No one has the right to choose who should die, but should we as humans have the right to choose who live? Isn't that breaking the law?
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I remember learning that same principle in my geography class, more food=more people even though not all people are being fed. In another class I took as well, I learned about carrying capacity, and also the effect of famines and such. In Alaska, before colonization,when people still depended on the land, people kept their populations at the appropriate size so that even when there were "lean years" there would still be enough food for each person. I agree with you when you said that no one has the right to choose who should die, but I also think that the world has hugely outgrown its carrying capacity, and sooner or later humanity will face the consequences of that. It may not seem right or humane not to help people who are starving, but in my opinion, famine is a natural way to control population.
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