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Does international trade law favor food insecurity? Yes and no. Some lean against the WTO and develop arguments in favor of national food security policies that achieve self-sufficiency. Others excessively preach the merits of free trade, forgetting that even as international trade in agriculture and food has increased in the world, famines have continued to kill every day. The dialectical relationship between these two ways of thinking does not supply adequate answers at present. On the contrary, these views need to be combined in order to supply the right answers to solve—or decrease—food insecurity. WTO substantive law hardly tries to achieve a compromise. The Agreement on Agriculture in particular, but not exclusively, provides States with flexibility to meet their international trade obligations in the pursuit of food security—and their right to food. Unfortunately, this compromise remains insufficient. The time has come for international trade law contribute to greater social justice in the world. Some tools exist to accomplish this but must be revised, while others are yet to be devised.