As millions of Americans are about to go hungry due to the US government refusing to fund SNAP, just remember that only two countries voted against making food a basic human right. The US and the terrorist colony of Israel
As millions of Americans are about to go hungry due to the US government refusing to fund SNAP, just remember that only two countries voted against making food a basic human right. The US and the terrorist colony of Israel
On a practical level, what would it mean to make food a human right?
Water is a human right, and there is a somewhat vague statement that, if you have access to a tap and someone asks you for drinking water you have to give it. Already the applications are confusing, since most local laws impose such burden only on public spaces (with varying definitions of public spaces).
For food, what would that mean? How could that ever be implemented? Or is the vibe good enough?
to my knowledge it obligates governments to provide food to people who can’t get food for reasons outside of their control such as prisoners, prisoners of war, and victims of natural disasters
Thanks for the clarification
In most countries, if your rights are violated, you can sue the one violating them and get them restored.
If food is a right and you can’t get food, then you should be able to sue the government to give you food. After the first won case, further similar cases would be handled by precedent, thus kind of necessiting the government to create a system to get food to people.
Point of clarification. This is only in common law countries, which are the minority. In most of the world, it’s code law that prevails and precedent means little or nothing. If it is a law, it is fulfilled, no matter what previous judges thought.
For water being a right, it also means the corporations and government can’t restrict you from accessing water. For example in most places you are allowed to access beach front or lake front property to get to the water. Some landlords and people complain in various situations but they legally have to have public access to a water body. I imagine for food, since corporations and landowners have occupied land or have land titles that would preclude you from growing your own, so somebody has to provide it if you can’t access land to make it.
At least here in the US, there’s a fair bit of public infrastructure around water being a human right. Every establishment you walk into likely has a publicly-accessible fountain.
I imagine something similar would have to happen around food, and I don’t think it would be that hard in practice. All we’d have to do is make it illegal for food vendors to trash edible food at the end of the day, but it’ll never ever happen. We care more about the civic religion of capitalism than we do about people being able to eat.
Boston’s main bus station literally doesn’t have a water fountain. I had to ask McDonald’s to fill my canteen with water, and she literally said no at first. I had to demand it, because there was no water fountain in the building
Oh wow. That’s surprising. Here in KC I can’t think of a single place I go that doesn’t have them.
boston is where the rot destroying the USA began, and has continued over the centuries pretty much unfettered
the whole city is a trap designed to squeeze as much $ out of as many people from across the country/world as possible, but hey…atleast they got some bike lanes, and that’s enough to keep their libs happy i guess.
It wouldn’t make a difference, it’s just moralist masturbation to put it bluntly. Declaring something as a human right doesn’t magically open up a portal where we can take an infinite amount of “human right” goods, especially not under capitalism where water, food and everything else produced and extracted are commodities to be produced for profit