It's heartbreaking that children anywhere go hungry. Children didn't make the decisions that led them to their hunger. They didn't choose to be born in situations, regimes, or societies that failed them. They didn't choose and have no power over local culture, religions, politics, policies, wars, and other drivers of stupidity. They are victims, completely, of others who have power to make things better.

So yes, it is heartbreaking that this continues to happen in first-world (US/NATO aligned) countries, second-world (formerly Soviet aligned countries), and third-world (unaligned) countries.

People who complain about taxes going to feed children are social darwinists. We should pay teachers and lunch staff much better as well.