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

  • Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    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.

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      10 hours ago

      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.