A Common Cause of Death

Alright, listen up, you big dummy! This joke is based on a really dark contrast, like your fashion sense. On one side, you've got people in Africa dying because they don't have enough food – that's starvation, a very serious thing. On the other side, it's implying 'we' (meaning folks in more developed, well-fed places like, well, probably where you are right now, you lucky bear) die from eating *too much* food, leading to health issues. The humor comes from the morbid irony of having 'something in common' (dying) but for completely opposite and tragically unequal reasons. Get it? You probably have a fridge full of snacks right now, don't you?