Are Africans really starving?

Question

My research has shown that if a species does not have enough food to survive it dies out. This has happened with numerous animals and even some human tribes.
How can these people have children if they are allegedly starving;
firstly from a moral standpoint i.e. would you bring a child into a world where you knew it would suffer all it's life or even die, but secondly from an anthropological standpoint, in that any species that cannot support it's own food consumption will not physically be able to have offspring. This phenomenon is bourne out when you look at people sufferning from Anorexia or from women on severe dietary regimes whose reproductive cycles are disrupted or in severe cases stopped altogether.
Are the western nations just prolonging the suffering of these people by giving them tiny allowances of food, where it would actually be more humane to let them die. Fact: a baby dies every 3 seconds from starvation: this must mean that a baby is born every 3 seconds also. Hmmm?

Answer 1

Not all Africans are starving - Africa is an enormous and varied continent.

Secondly droughts are unpredictable, there's no real way to predict when they will happen. As many African families live a pastoral life they NEED children in order to help them survive - a child can work almost as hard as an adult, but doesn't need as much feeding, and also if you have a farm to run you need as much help as possible. It was exactly the same in Europe pre-industrial revolution, people had large families.

By your arguement it would have been more "humane" to have let the people of New Orleans fend for themselves, it's THEIR fault they didn't leave because of the hurricaine, and built a city in such a stupid place, so THEY should sort themselves out, instead of sponging off other people. The arguement that they did receive aid because they are part of the US doesn't hold either, because many other nations (even African nations) sent aid to help them, because they saw a humanitarian crisis, and people in need - so they wanted to help, instead of callously standing by and watching them perish.

Answer 2

This makes me sad to be a part of the human race when people are so heartless .