PHM-Exch> Food for a hungry thought

[Claudio Schuftan]

Human Rights Reader 318



*WHEN PEOPLE SUFFER FROM HUNGER, THEY ARE NOT ONLY SUBJECTED TO A FOOD
DEFICIT --THEY SUFFER FROM A JUSTICE DEFICIT. **JUSTIFIABLY SO, H**UNGER
CREATES ANGER.*

 The concept of food security captures the notion of hunger, not as a
deficit of calories and nutrients, but as a violation of a broader set of
social, economic, and physical conditions. So people rebel.



*The time is overdue for change *



We have to move from the ‘science of nutrition’ to the ‘science of
nutrition issues in society’.  Nutrition is not just thinking about where
nutrients come from. It is more to do with thinking about how society
works.



 In general, nutrition professionals have avoided fighting for massive
changes, and have instead focused on small educational, surveillance and
such-like efforts rather than taking-on the major causes of the problem
and, at the same time, seeking meaningful solutions that will benefit
people who live in poverty.


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Claudio
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