The Right to Food

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Saturday December 20, 2008 · 4:20 PM PST

2008/12/20 · 16:20

Apologies for the short diary below, but I think this issue merits attention but not a lot of explanation. It pretty much speaks for itself.

Psst, have you heard?

The UN has passed a resolution stating that the right to adequate food should be considered a fundamental human right, and also that member-states should "create an environment conducive to the well-being of all children, including by strengthening international cooperation in regard to the eradication of poverty, the right to education, the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health, and the right to food."

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Do people have a fundamental right to food?

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Do people have a fundamental right to food?

Yes, it's almost 2009, people should not be starving to death

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No, starving people should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps

6 votes

Only a fundamental right to pie

2 votes

There She Is!! and the politics of love

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Sunday December 14, 2008 · 7:20 PM PST

2008/12/14 · 19:20

There's a wonderful series of Flash animations called There She Is!! that some of you may have seen. It's the work of a Korean animation team called SamBakZa, and the fifth and final episode was just released a couple days ago.

I bring this up on DailyKos not only to share it for art's sake, but specifically to ask, what lessons can we learn about American politics from a series of Korean cartoons about a cat and a bunny? A lot, as it turns out.

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