The Inequalities Of Food Distribution Essay

Ever since I was born culture has played an important role in just about every aspect of my life. One important aspect of my life which has specifically been influenced by culture is food, especially having grown up in a predominantly Hispanic family where food is at the center of life. Yet, it was not until my English class focused on food injustice that I began to realize the magnitude of culture 's impact on food. Without even meaning to I began to draw comparisons between food access and quality in the United States versus in Mexico due to the discussions in class revolving around that subject. While I could note many key differences between access to quality food in the two countries I was unsure of the importance of these differences to the larger discussion at hand. Eventually, I was able to see by comparing the lifestyles of Mexican towns against U.S. cities one can clearly see that American conversations about food justice and access are missing a key socio-cultural element.

As populations become more urban and incomes rise, diets high in sugar, fat and animal products replace more traditional diets that were high in complex carbohydrates and fibre. Ethnic cuisine and unique traditional food habits are being replaced by westernized fast foods, soft drinks and increased meat consumption (Drewnowski, 2000). Homogenization and westernization of the global diet has increased the energy density and this is particularly a problem for the poor in all

Food insecurity is a major issue in Canada, affecting millions people across the country especially minorities. In 2012, four million Canadians experienced some form of food insecurity (Tarasuk, Mitchell, & Dachner, 2014). This paper aims to focus on how food insecurity affects women and children, and the costs associated with it. The results of food insecurity can be serious mental, and physical health problems for women and children. It shall demonstrate the need for government intervention, job security, prices of food, and public policies to protect low income families. This topic was chosen as it is an issue which often gets overlooked by many middle and upper class Canadians. Often times when people think of starvation, they picture children in Sub-Saharan Africa. The reality is that women and children in Canadian communities are affected by food insecurity daily. Action needs to be taken immediately in order for food insecurity to be fully eradicated, and justice to be achieved.

Nutrition is important for healthy life. Many people are still hungry around the world even though there is mass production of food. This is because of unhealthy food production. In today’s world we see many obese people because of high intake of high fat and cholesterol containing food. It is important to have a healthy diet/ nutritional intake for individuals to have good foundation for physical and mental health. Now a day’s healthy food is getting more expensive rather than unhealthy food. Poor people are forced to eat unhealthy food, while the rich can afford to eat whatever the please. Food insecurity is caused by individuals not having healthy food for their families due to their low income or political and

A key social problem highlighted by the infographic is food inequality. With the affluent having the freedom to discard excess food into bins, the same amount of food wasted can feed the malnourished 4 times! A statistical report revealed 815 million people worldwide suffers from hunger and malnutrition from the 2017 UN World Hunger Report; that translate to 1 in 9 people suffering from malnourishment, with the main sufferers being children. With 815 million hungry mouths, about one million of us over-consumes.

In the Sex and Social Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum, She believes that without certain traits, a life will fall short of being a good life. She calls these traits, “Central Human Functional Capabilities”, and there are ten in total. She argues that the role of public policy should focus on those capabilities in order to ensure and promote a good quality of life for a society or country. If public policy focused on the Human Capabilities she discusses, than that is a way of creating an environment where everyone has an equal opportunity at a good life. So, she is also promoting a chance of survival, equality, and a good life. Before goodness can be defined, two things must exist: the ability to survive and an equal chance to do so for everyone. When good can be simplified to mean healthy, an environment for all must be created to be good or healthy. There is a typical group that does not meet one of the Human Functional Capabilities, bodily health and integrity which is “being able to have good health, including reproductive health; being adequately nourished; being able to have adequate shelter” (Nussbaum). Nourishing or providing shelter to homeless people is an example of a good act because it provides people an opportunity to have a central human functional capability that they are lacking of, and promoting a healthy environment.

Raj Patel’s Stuffed and Starved analyzes the paradoxical content in its title statement. Patel demonstrates how the world food system has created two opposite, but inherently linked epidemics: obesity and crippling hunger. Throughout the course of this book, it becomes painfully clear that the majority of the world’s population is being manipulated by our global food system and by the corporations and their CEO’s who control it. Patel encourages his readers to make themselves politically responsible (313) and through Stuffed and Starved, highlights the discrepancies and major imbalances of our world food system, the small percentage of people who benefit from it, and the vast majority of humanity who does not. He does all this while

Even though America may prosper, the future it’s still dark for many other countries and there seems to be no viable solutions. With the scarce amount of food that we have, it seems like an impossible task, with only three times what we require to feed the world´s population it is impossible to choose an alternative, such as distributing this food among everyone,

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.

Food insecurity has been affecting the US population as about more than 23 million Americans, including 6.5 million children, live in low-income urban and rural neighborhoods that are more than a mile from a supermarket. These communities are much known since they lack access to affordable, nutritious food. Vault and healthy food should be affordable; policy or a plan that would improve our food supply or the health of the population should be put into consideration in order to enhance the American population’s public health.

Millions of people deal with hunger daily while the United States, as well as other developed countries, waste enough edible food to feed every hungry person on the planet. “Forty percent of the food in the United States

The food system that is in place in the united states is not sustainable. The damage that is being made from growing animals in the united states is damaging the planet by polluting and harming our own bodies with these genetically modified food products that we consume at a daily basis. Animals in the united states are not self-sustainable because the nature of the animal was changed by the animal’s growers.

During our visits to help with housing construction in local villages, I was able to offer a simple meal of rice and beans to children and elderly adults and watch the pure joy erupt on their faces as they were given a proper meal, perhaps the first full meal they had for several days. In stark contrast, we take for granted the availability of substantial quantities of food and drink every single day, something we are fortunate and extremely privileged to have available to us . We can't afford to be wasteful, or picky with what we eat when so many of our fellow mankind are living day to day not knowing where their next meal might come from, or if it will come at

Record-high levels of food inequality are being felt most prominently in the world's cities. Since the year 2000, New York City food costs have increased by 59 percent, while the average income of working adults has only increased by 17 percent. (Breggin 1) rising food costs and lack of food availability in urban areas has created effects that are felt by millions of people around the world. The USDA defines Food insecurity as a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food, and it is plaguing our nation. Characterized by inability to find healthy food and not having enough to sustain a household are problems that an estimated 12.3 % of American households experience regularly (USDA 1).chart food sec..png

We live in an age in which we have come to expect everything to be instantaneously at our fingertips. We live in an age of instant coffee, instant tea, and even instant mashed potatoes. We can walk down the street at 5 in the morning and get a gallon of milk or even a weeks worth of groceries at our discretion. Even though it is great that food is now readily available at all times, this convenience comes at a price, for both the producer and the consumer. Farmers are cheated out of money and are slaves to big business, workers and animals are mistreated. And, because food now comes at a low cost, it has become cheaper quality and therefore potentially dangerous to the consumer’s health. These problems surrounding the ethics and the