[johnsmith1840]

I would have agreed until I went abroad.

I distinctly remember seeing the mother and child in a dark stairwell mother thin as a rail sitting on dirt and trash the woman barely lucid baby wailing.

Or the old man begging on the corner with one arm clearly starving in nothing but a fabric cloth pants the bones sticking out like nothing I've seen before.

Malnutrition by western standards is bs you're either dying or you're not. Most of the world does not live on a balanced diet.