> in basically all western countries there is support structure in place to feed the poor, so that no one should go hungry. There is no such support structure

> in basically all western countries there is support structure in place to feed the poor, so that no one should go hungry. There is no such support structure in the UK. There are the informal 'food banks', but they are overstretched and ad-hoc. So, unsurprisingly, people do go hungry. So, prima facie, there must be cases where the shoplifters are right and the law is wrong, at least until you have put an adequate foodbank system in place.