Food aid is basically the US subsidizing its own food producers and dumping free food in countries, thus undermining the already-poor farmers. It's not as chari

Food aid is basically the US subsidizing its own food producers and dumping free food in countries, thus undermining the already-poor farmers. It's not as charitable as you make it sound, and it has a lot of negative outcomes. If the US was interested in helping the people there, it would use different approaches.