Food Security Bill

How a national food policy could save millions of American lives discusses the lack of a national food policy in America and how the food industry affects people and the world. Examples of issues that a nation food policy could alleviate include Americans access to healthy food and reducing the carbon footprint from food production. The article also discusses how special interests flourish from issues related to the food industry while citizens and the environment suffer.

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Food security is an issue in Canada that people from different ages may experience. Furthermore, food security is an international topic we all need to take a stand on, as it will affect the future of our people, our agriculture, our economy, and our overall lifestyle. Some people in Canada cannot achieve food security due to a chain reaction that is hard to stop when it begins. Agriculture plays a huge role in food insecurity because the outcome of floods, droughts, and other natural disasters is famine. This is when extreme food scarcity becomes a problem. Canadians will not have enough food for themselves and their families, and malnutrition becomes an issue. Moreover, these agricultural factors causes a loss in income especially for farmers,

Food security has three core components. These are food availability, accessibility and use of food (FAO, 2015, Welsh, 1998). 12.5% of household in Canada are suffering from food insecurity (Boddy and Roblin, 2017). Food insecurity is higher in immigrants compare to the Canadians (Health Canada, 2012, Welsh, 1998, Toronto Food Policy Council, 2013). Moreover, the food desert is another factor of food security where there is a lack of access to the food stores, fruit, and vegetables (Center for Disease control, 2012). Ethnic vegetables play an important role in the food security and nutrition of the South Asian immigrants (Quadir and Danesh,

Hunger stalks America and many other countries. How the world deals with hunger is dependent on cultural attitudes and the understanding of what hunger means to the individual and communities. In the United States, the majority of hungry people are the elderly, children, and the disabled which represent a bloc of people unable to provide for themselves with employment. The understanding that governmental systems and institutions responsible for food insecurity are failing, is becoming mainstream in the population, not the previous idea that agriculture does not produce enough food. How to provide physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to meet dietary needs and food preferences for healthy lives is a problem of political and economic exclusion, social injustice and discrimination (Cunningham 2017, Lecture 1). The right to food security should be an uncompromised right of humanity, no matter the cost to government or agriculture.

The program known today as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (S.N.A.P.) actually started in 1939 as the food stamp program. Over the years, there have been several pieces of legislation that have either sustained, expanded or improved on the program. Legislation such as the Food Stamp Act of 1964, the expansion of the program to all 50 states in 1974, the addition of the Electronic Benefits Transfer card in 2004 and in 2008 when the food stamp program was renamed to S.N.A.P. (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, 2014)

This act expands access to nutritional food for lower- income children, firstly, by making a way in which lower-income children can access healthy food by producing new targets to the free-lunch program in which will increase the number of children that are eligible by roughly 115,000. This is made possible due to the federal payment for schools in highly populated neighborhoods with low-income children and be able to eliminate paper applications. Children who are born into the lower working class may receive their only meal during school lunch and depend on that one meal. A mission of this law is to be able to provide this single meal as healthy and nutritious as it possibly can be, so the USDA has been permitted authority to produce nutritional targets for all foods served in schools. The law distributes $4.5 billion to execute new health standards, while reimbursing an average of an extra six cents for each meal for schools that meet this new nutrition standard. An additional use of the funds incorporated in this law includes supplying resources for schools to be able to use locally used farms and gardens in which produce fresh produce.

The term food security has become more mainstream in recent years. Food security refers to all people at all times having physical and economic access to adequate amounts of nutritious and culturally appropriate food for an active and healthy life.6 The food should be produced in a sustainable environment and people should be able to make informed decisions about their food choices. Food security also means that people who produce the food are able to earn a decent living wage. At the core of food security is access to healthy food and optimal nutrition for all. Food access is closely related to food supply which is dependent on a healthy and sustainable food system. People who have access to adequate food but are limited by a lack of money or other resources are considered food insecure. The forces challenging food security include demographic change, high and volatile food prices, land and water constraints, and climate

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The last but not the least, high food prices make the situation even worse. According to FAO ' s data, the population of undernourishment increased by 75 million, which is higher than it in 2003 to 2005. The scientists analyzed it is caused by the rising food price (FAO, 2008). Additionally, in some countries in African, South American and Asia where average income is very low, to achieve the food security is almost impossible. For instance, Afghanistan is one of the most food-insecure countries. In Afghanistan, with 80% of the population living in rural place, the agricultural industry is most significant to this country. However, the households in Afghanistan still need to spend over 60 percent of their budgets on food. In 2008, it can be easily found in the chart, the wheat flour price experienced a sharp increase from 15 per kg to 45 per kg, which greatly increased the burden of the inhabitants (D’Souza, 2011). When the flour price rises, the local people will certainly spend more percentage of their incomes on wheat flour rather than some high-quality vegetables and meat. Unreasonable diet structure can directly contribute to lacking nutrition and influence their healthy. As a result, a vicious circle is created and makes the

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (2012), defines food security as “when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life” (para. 1). The human right to have access to food is fundamental. There are many meal assistance services within Australia that aim to improve food security and fight hunger. FairShare is a food charity organisation that rescues and accepts donated food to cook nutritious meals each week for those in need. FairShare’s vision is “a society where food is not wasted and hunger is minimised” (FairShare, 2014).

Food policy is an area of public policy concerning how food is produced, processed, distributed, and purchased. Food policies are designed for influencing the operation of food and agriculture systems. Policies often include decisions on production and processing techniques, the marketing of food, labeling of food products, availability, and the consumption of food. Food policy can impact all populations on many levels from local to global, especially the lower socio economic level individuals and families. This issue is critical to address now because our nation is focused on caring for those who are already sick instead of illness prevention. This paper will address the various organizations that influence our nation’s food policy and

All human rights laws will fail if the citizens are not willing to obey those laws. Moreover, enforcement of the social policies also depends on the voluntary cooperation of the citizens. The state will be unable to provide health care services if the citizens are not willing to maintain a healthy diet with respect to their own health (Kymlicka, 2002, p.285 ). Consequently, social policies to meet the need of the child, disable, women and elderly cannot be effective if the citizens are not willing to share this responsibility by providing some care for their relatives.

This paper aims to answer the following questions: what is food security? , who is responsible of food security? , what are the main point of food security? , what are the effects of food insecurity? , what are the differences of food security between GCC and USA? , Many people may have access to food but not all of them can get the good natural food with nutrients that their body needs. Actually food security is a basic human need. The purpose of these questions is to show the importance of food security in all the countries.

Food security is historically defined as the overall regional, national as well as global food supply and shortfalls in supply as associated to requirements (Foster, 1992). The same author contended that, even though, the increased observation of differences in the sufficiency of food intake by certain groups despite overall adequacy of supply, the term has been applied recently at a local, household, or individual level and it has been widened beyond notions of food supply to include elements of access (Sen, 1981), vulnerability (Watts and Bohle, 1993), and sustainability (Chambers, 1989). Different organizations, scholars and institutions define food security differently. However, basic concept remains the same.