To
me, food and water should be free. I mean it is a basic necessity for
life, as is oxygen. It’s not like the past where we use to have
farms that would be able to supply just enough food for those in the
region, we today have large farms owned by corporations who are over
producing so much food that it appears we waste more than we eat.
Taken from a report from the huffingtonpost, we produce enough food
to feed 10 billion people, in a world with only 7 billion people.
Today, the people who go hungry or starve do so because of poverty
and inequality, not scarcity.
So how is all this food being produced? Rodale, the longest-running side-by-side study comparing conventional chemical agriculture with organic methods, found organic yields match conventional in good years and outperform them under drought conditions and environmental distress, a critical property as climate change increasingly serves up extreme weather conditions.
So with all this food produced, how much truly goes to waste sense it overcomes the number of the population on the world? Plus with the added fact not everyone has access to this food? Roughly one third of the food produced in the world, approximately 1.3 billion tones. Every year, consumers in rich countries waste 222 million tons of food.
Moving along to water, the U.N., on the 28 of July, 2010, proposed a resolution that passed that stated water is a human right. Taken from the U.N. website regarding this resolution “the United Nations General Assembly explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation and acknowledged that clean drinking water and sanitation are essential to the realization of all human rights.” Now you’re probably saying to yourself “how does water being a human right got to do with it deserving to be free?” because, if something is a human right, is it fair to make humans pay for it? If something is a human right why should it be priced? If we was to price rights then why not make people pay to speak their freedom of speech. It’s the very fact it is a human right that it deserves to be free.
As for its supply, there is 2.5% fresh water, but Nearly 70% of that fresh water is frozen in the icecaps of Antarctica and Greenland; most of the remainder is present as soil moisture, or lies in deep underground aquifers as groundwater not accessible to human use. Only 1% of the world’s fresh water is accessible for direct human use. Obtain the rest of this fresh water, and we could have a large supply for all upon this world.
With these facts, the question should not be “should food and water be free?” it should be “why shouldn’t food and water be free?” these facts of how much food and water we have for all on this world, we need to become more compassionate for our fellow brothers and sisters, and do what is right, because no one deserves to go hungry and die from starvation or lack of drinking water, if you wouldn’t want to go through such suffering, why should others endure it.
So how is all this food being produced? Rodale, the longest-running side-by-side study comparing conventional chemical agriculture with organic methods, found organic yields match conventional in good years and outperform them under drought conditions and environmental distress, a critical property as climate change increasingly serves up extreme weather conditions.
So with all this food produced, how much truly goes to waste sense it overcomes the number of the population on the world? Plus with the added fact not everyone has access to this food? Roughly one third of the food produced in the world, approximately 1.3 billion tones. Every year, consumers in rich countries waste 222 million tons of food.
Moving along to water, the U.N., on the 28 of July, 2010, proposed a resolution that passed that stated water is a human right. Taken from the U.N. website regarding this resolution “the United Nations General Assembly explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation and acknowledged that clean drinking water and sanitation are essential to the realization of all human rights.” Now you’re probably saying to yourself “how does water being a human right got to do with it deserving to be free?” because, if something is a human right, is it fair to make humans pay for it? If something is a human right why should it be priced? If we was to price rights then why not make people pay to speak their freedom of speech. It’s the very fact it is a human right that it deserves to be free.
As for its supply, there is 2.5% fresh water, but Nearly 70% of that fresh water is frozen in the icecaps of Antarctica and Greenland; most of the remainder is present as soil moisture, or lies in deep underground aquifers as groundwater not accessible to human use. Only 1% of the world’s fresh water is accessible for direct human use. Obtain the rest of this fresh water, and we could have a large supply for all upon this world.
With these facts, the question should not be “should food and water be free?” it should be “why shouldn’t food and water be free?” these facts of how much food and water we have for all on this world, we need to become more compassionate for our fellow brothers and sisters, and do what is right, because no one deserves to go hungry and die from starvation or lack of drinking water, if you wouldn’t want to go through such suffering, why should others endure it.
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