Why does the speaker of A Modest Proposal think the food he proposes is very proper for landlords?

The narrator thought that the landlords should have the first claim on the flesh of the children since they have already devoured most of the parents, meaning they have the best title to the children. The author of the pamphlet A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift, was an Anglo-Irish cleric, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer and a poet. The tract is an ironically conceived attempt to "find out a fair, cheap, and easy Method" for converting the starving children of Ireland into "sound and useful members of the Commonwealth. Read more about the summary of A Modest Proposal here. Check out a wonderful and absorbing biography of Jonathan Swift at The Irish Times.