Right to Food

As I was browsing algore's internets, I happened upon an article that was lamenting "starving children in India." No, that wasn't your mom talking, that really was a "news" report. They claim that 46% of children are malnourished. Here's an easy solution -- let's send our obese children and swap them for the malnourished ones.

But as I was glancing over the article, one line really caught my attention:

Economist and Right to Food activist, Jean Dreze told CNBC-TV18

ExCUSE me? Turns out I did read that right. There really is a communist organization that claims that everyone has a right to food:

We consider that everyone has a fundamental right to be free from hunger and undernutrition. Realising this right requires not only equitable and sustainable food systems, but also entitlements relating to livelihood security such as the right to work, land reform and social security. We consider that the primary responsibility for guaranteeing these entitlements rests with the state. Lack of financial resources cannot be accepted as an excuse for abdicating this responsibility.

This is the total opposite of freedom, no matter your feelings on hunger. They specifically advocate the state taking anything and everything they can from anyone who produces something so they can give it to others who do NOT work.

A quick review on rights for those who consider supporting these communists:

Rights cannot, by definition, require anything of anyone else. To claim that "food" is a right, you require others to create, produce, package, and deliver that food to you. That's not rights, that's slavery.

So no, no matter how compassionate you might be, you simply cannot claim there is a "right to food" unless you support slavery.

Posted by: Ogre at 02:03 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
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