Mealy mouth equivocation that would do United Airlines proud.

@1: Perhaps. but it is also true that if these people are eating food, they are not really on a hunger strike, and to the prison, that is a pretty important difference when it comes to managing the situation.

“Every day, it’s rice and beans, rice and beans,"
....Sob!.....
Life is hard.
And then you die.

( Have these poor folk considered holding their breath until they turn blue?
Sometimes that gets you what you want......)

@5 - Uhm, have you ever looked into what prisoners are fed in US prisons?

Compassion much?

Nothing but rice and beans is also a health hazard.

#2 There's always a victim blamer, isn't there?

Or someone so far up any authoritorian's ass, they swallow whatever an "authority" shits out.