Americans are often brought up in the environment of living in excess. We need lots of everything and it better be high quality (and thus expensive). As a result this greed, other people are not able to fulfil their basic needs, let alone a fair piece of the pie. There is plenty of food and wealth to support everyone. If we did not throw away so much food or support exploitive entities then we could support the world's population better as a whole. I believe there is enough to go around. We just need to distribute things properly.