The article is actually decently well written good-faith satire meant to address how poverty and hunger are inherent to capitalism as a system. The title was just too bold lol
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Before you have an opinion on it, just read the article, it's just one page. https://www2.hawaii.edu/~kent/BenefitsofWorldHunger.pdf
The UN really shot themselves in the foot by deleting it, because the title only looks bad if you don't actually read the rest of the text, which they now made more difficult.
they probably would've just added [SATIRE] to the title
A modest proposal for the global south
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No, the text is pretty fucked, too
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal