text: This article is about two different things, and does not differentiate between them.  A group of people using violence to take property from one person to give to another (government redistribution) is totally different than people freely giving to those in need.
  
  It might be noted that the scale of these "feed the children" programs is quite vast, while 2/3 of American adults are overweight.  At what point is it the responsibility of an (overweight) parent to provide for the nutritional needs of their kid.