The UN Voted to Make Food A Human Right, Only Two Countries Voted No: Israel and USA
The UN Voted to Make Food A Human Right, Only Two Countries Voted No: Israel and USA
The saddest thing is that I'm not shocked in the slightest.
The concept of voting food as a human right is already weird to me but yeah, of course this would be the result.
This vote makes no difference whatsoever. The UN can't truly bind any state to any action. Why would the US participate when we're the biggest bully on the block? We're only in it for public perception, and most importantly, the veto.
If it doesn't do anything then it doesn't cost anything to vote for it. The US opposition to it was weirdly that it both is just symbolical and doesn't have concrete steps and that it forces bad things on the US (companies)
Well at least we know who the bad guys are.
The US is a shithole country.
Also the only country where children don't have rights.
Also they don't recognize International Court of War Crimes.
The capitalism demands payment for food. The capitalism reminds you that it's easier to pull yourself up by the bootstraps if you weigh less.
Every economic system requires money for food. Unless you want to grow your own? Been gardening for 35-years, it would be hell to feed my tiny wife and my tiny self on 2 acres.
It's not capitalism, you're just seeing the end stages. No reason we couldn't have continued to tax the snot out the wealthy and continued to collectively bargain via unions. No reason we couldn't have continued to disallow and bust monopolies.
Any economic system will eventually funnel the money upstream. We have to have the morals and education to fight against that. Every economic system is rise and fall, rinse and repeat.
I don't have the ultimate answer. Education? But how do you fund that, and keep everyone singing from the same hymn book, when the money starts trickling up and the rich fight for their own best interests?
What a disgusting country I live in.
Of course they did. You know what else should be a human right ?
Internet (We are not talking about social media)
Internet should be treated as a utility some 15 years ago.
Job searches, paying bills, medical portals and more. It's a requirement today even more so.
And it's even easier to implement than food. Many countries already have free access to computers with internet in public libraries.
I don't know, people keep saying it's nice to disconnect from the Internet. People who've lived without it long term and have a good real life community is probably doing ok. It's not a need to thrive as a human being. Seems like a detriment in the long run.
They mean social media & it's only said by people who are narrow-minded. The kind of people that honestly Should be gatekept away from internet because they're a net negative.
Plus it's already been said by actual govts. (Look up Kerala high court)
I suppose porn can be gotten in magazine form.
The fuck does "human right" even mean if a basic necessity for short-term survival isn't one?
You have the right to starve to death in the street
No loitering
Let the people vote instead of the fascists.
The Soviet solution to this was to send all the fascists to Siberia and I’m starting to think they had the right idea.
The UN declaration of Human Rights already declared "freedom from want" a human right, which includes food, shelter, and clothing.
Food is already a human right, according to the UN.
freedom from want
That goes against the very foundations of capitalism!
The UN is lucky no one in the USA government can read, or they'd've already been liberated with extreme prejudice!
Didn't you read? Trump just signed an executive order that claims anticapitalist actions are terrorism.
I wish I was being sarcastic..
Man I want a 5090
You'd think Americans would be on board considering how much they eat
Americans who have any political voice (right wingers these days) have plenty to eat and hate the poor. They prefer them hungry as some sort of punishment for ending up needing the help. We have Ayn Rand capitalism in our blood.
Ayn Rand, who died impoverished eating through public assistance hated the poor and made it morally acceptable for Americans to hate their poor. She thought altruism was evil. She was also a zionist who thought Arabs were "primatives" https://mondoweiss.net/2012/08/ryan-said-to-be-meeting-with-adelson/
Yes but they only want themselves to eat, not others.
They'd love to starve a bunch of their fellow americans, too
I mean the majority of the citizens certainly are on board
The US vote counts as a veto right? That sucks ass.
If Life is an inalienable right, and food is an undeniable necessity for human life, then it should be self-evident that food is a human right.
We're dealing with a society that doesn't understand what inalienable means, and especially the leaders.
It would be weird if they did vote "yes", considering what they are doing right now.
I guess you can count on them for being consistently shitty.
We know why Israel voted "no". As to America, we are still, ATM, the most powerful military and economic force on Earth. Think logically; Why we ever agree to anything any other country wants unless it's a clear benefit to us? The schoolyard bully doesn't give quarter until he's punched in the fucking face, and no one can really break our nose, at the moment.
Give it time. We've alienated all our friends, and they're desperately looking and working towards a future without American influence. It'll take a long time to see our empire die down. SOURCE: 20th century British history.
the sun finally set on the british empire for the first time in many, many years this year (2025 - it lost the chagis islands ~march). it takes a very, very long time 👍
Capitalism is massively dependent on coercing labor through the deprivation of basic human needs.
Good knowing we're the Axis this time around.
Shithole.
Makes sense. Being an ally is woke.
I was thinking if they voted again about the same thing with the same results but yeah this was about the 2021 vote.
...Wait, I thought food was already a human right? Article 25.
It is. This was a vote to reaffirm it (I guess in the context of the current genocide where its been shown that Israel is using food as a weapon).
But this vote doesn't overturn the fact that food is recognized as a human right by the UN.
Big news everybody! The country that does nothing right, did the same thing again!
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Like we did expect something different.
We suck.
How did I miss hearing f about this in 2021??
Algunos americanos dont want to have to help others unless there is a profit in it.
It's the ones in power. Always been, will continue being for the foreseeable future.
It’s just capitalists that think that way. Your country has them too, I promise. They are a scourge that must either be washed away, or they will tighten their grip on the world and turn us all into monsters in their own image.
Your country has them too
Sure, but the USA is the only country where capitalism is the official state religion, and where reasonable regulations are seen as an attack on personal liberties (since it's also the only country that considers companies people... and real people a resource to be owned and consumed).
The depravity is beyond parody.
They're also after the air and water.
The US once helped create the UN as a means of unifying the world against fascism. Now it has made itself and Kahanist Israel the enemies of the UN.
اَللَّٰهُ أَكْبَرُ
There were nazi rallies in the US in the 1920s. What are you talking about?
The US has been fucking with other countries for the last 150+ years. Manipulating their elections, deposing their governments, and installing dictatorships.
We now say Russia does this but the reality is that the US are masters at it and have never stopped.
Interesting suggestion when we're talking about human rights, because collective punishment is against the Geneva Convention.
Do you think the populace of these countries are the ones voting in the UN?
At least here in the US, you just spent the last eight months watching Democrats make fun of people who couldn't afford basic food staples because they voted Donald. For the years prior to that, it was Republicans making fun of people who couldn't afford basic food staples because they voted Biden.
So yeah.
I think we're fairly comfortable with people starving, as long as we perceive it to be the right sort of people.
They voted for the ones who voted for the ones who voted for the ones though…
At some point the populace is responsible for who they voted into power and didn’t petition for the checks and balances.
Lead the way tough guy
Fuck. We're the baddies.
All the so called christians that voted for this. They should be ashamed, but I'm not sure they can even feel shame.
That's the beauty of Christianity.
It can be exploited to make you feel correct no matter your worldview.
One of the biggest reasons it spread so far.
Isn't Christianity the religion where it doesn't really matter how bad you are? In the end the love for Jesus fills up you entirely and before your final moments you become good.
I vaguely remember learning something like that.
All ya gotta do is believe in Jesus and ask for forgiveness right before you die and you get into heaven, no matter what you've done lol.
This is not about 2025 American politics. Think in terms of game theory, pure logic, drop your morals. If you're you the baddest dude in the hood, why would you let weaker men trap you into binding agreements that might bite your ass down the road? All risk, no reward, foolish.
America won't be a real member of the international community until we are militarily and economically forced into the role.
See the gathering of generals and the warlike speech yesterday? They know we're slipping economically. Only way to counter, for a fascist, is military might. Once you've built your power on a single man never being wrong, forging ahead no matter what, there is no turning back. Plus, our leader is a dementia addled old man. All he understands is kicking ass and lording power and money over others. God knows what he'll do or say next, but you can count on that behavior.
It's really funny that as an atheist, I have more faith in the teachings of Jesus(charity, don't be a dick) than the so-called followers of Christ.