I remember an incident some decades when we sent seed grain to India (I think) and hunger was so bad there that they ate the seeds...problem was, the seeds had already been coated with a poison. Many died.
A few years back my Eco-SIL (her HEART is in the right place, her BRAIN is elsewhere) tried to talk our FIL into sending a goat to a Third World country or some such thing. I think it’s called “The Heifer Project?”
We all pool our money at Christmas and do something “charitable” and the family takes a vote on where to send our cash, but Dad has the final say in it.
His tirade on “they’ll just EAT it, they don’t know what to DO to CREATE food for themselves, they’ll just kill the Golden Goose, etc.” is now our Christmastime mantra. ;)
He DOES have a point. I’m a “Teach a man to fish,” Gal, myself.
But, when you’re starving due to tin-pot dictators taking the cream, where does your thinking lie?
Democracy for all! No matter how cr@ppy it may seem at times. No one is “starving” in the Good Old USofA, that’s for sure. Democracy for all! Seeds for all! :)