The author of the story says that many people don’t have enough food. He then goes to propose an idea that is morally incorrect, very hypocritical, and very illogical.
He proposes that to cure the mass hunger, people should eat the infants. Infants are another mouth to feed and another body to clothe. He says that it is better to eat them instead so it can benefit the adults.
This is incorrect just because it is wrong for humans to eat other humans. They are their own kind and if they eat each other, soon they will be extinct. This is hypocritical because if the author himself was an infant, he definitely would not have proposed this idea. He only suggested it because it would benefit him. This is illogical simply because if nobody is willing to follow through with this idea, it will not happen.
Of course, the author is being sarcastic sometimes during the story. However, the idea of eating other humans that are innocent and are newly born is just not the way to cure hunger.