If you give food to somebody who isn't hungry, it gets either trashed or they get fat. Neither are desirable outcomes. It also trashes the economy, since people

If you give food to somebody who isn't hungry, it gets either trashed or they get fat. Neither are desirable outcomes. It also trashes the economy, since people will have a hard time selling foot when everybody already has some. It is much more effective to simply give people money to decide for themselves what they need (except for maybe medical care, since getting sick isn't a choice), than having the government try to figure that out for 300 million people at once.