I guess another way of looking at it, for me personally at least, is this .....
There is denying food to the point of inducing hunger, and while this may be cruel or even possibly inhumane to SOME, I personally don't see it as all that unreasonable to establish control of a prisoner. You feed them on your time table, not theirs, and you make them realise their need to eat is at your discretion. Again, this can be considered as cruel, and even inhumane, but I think in a situation involving a prisoner, there has to be established guidelines for enforcing your control over them that goes beyond simply incarcerating them against their will.
Then there is denying food to the point of starvation. There is no question when you have reached this point, as signs of malnutrition are unmistakable. Once you have crossed the line from "being cruel" for the sake of establishing control over your prisoner to what could only be starving them, then you have gone into the region of torture in my opinion.
As for defining a timetable to determine in hours when it becomes too much, that really is situational and heavily dependent on a variety of circumstances not yet mentioned.
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