A Modest Proposal

A Modest Proposal is apparently a proposal on how to solve the growing population problem. With the ammount of poor having to take care of the growing number of poor-born infants, Jonothan Swift encourages the idea that children start being bred for food. By doing this he thinks that not only would they not have to worry about caring for the growing population, but would also end up having a surplus of food and the economy would grow rapidly. He also believes that not only would it help economic problems but it would help social problems as well, where husband and wives would care much more for their child because of the chance of it being for or be willing to breed their children to sell off to the masses. He thinks this would become a great practice everywhere.
This is a satire because rather than trying to support the growing population, Swift thinks we should use the growing population to support themselves. He also seems to be very enthusiastic about the idea, and that it would in no way be morally wrong to do so.