Starving duplicants don't try to prioritize food for themselves

I agree. It's probably not a bug, but micro-managing food by asking not hungry enough duplicants to stay away from food until starving ones are actually "hungry" is a pain.

If food is made, and a Dupe nearby is hungry, then a sweep task is set for them and they'll eat the food. 

In layman's terms, another Dupe claimed it before they could.

My suggestion is to have any starving Dupes become temporarily idle, or simply turn off food permissions for all non-starving Dupes.

Thanks for the response. I also don't think it fully qualifies as a bug, but it's obvious you'd want the starving dupes to eat first, we at least have to have an Eat command so that they'd drop their errands and also ignore their Mess Table if needed.