Answer for: Should people have the right to eat?
#1 There are no rights - only power - ask Oliver Twist
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I do not say that this is a desirable state of affairs, it is just how it is. Power comes in a lot of forms and some people have more of it than others. The desire to eat is there and whether you satisfy that desire depends on the amount of power you have. For example, most people in America have relatively more power than peasants in India - it is buying power. Americans get a greater variety of fresh food than Indian peasants as a result. It would be possible for America collectively to ensure a larger and more varied food supply to India's peasants by giving away food and by investing in technology and training to help India's peasantry to feed itself. it doesn't happen because Americans are far away and don't care enough about other people's starvation to bother. I used Americans as an example but I do not mean that Americans are especially greedy, it is that they are more powerful like some other nations both now and in the past. I have seen no evidence to suggest that the powerful truly want to ensure the welfare of the powerless anywhere at any time in history. Whether someone eats (or lives) is dependent on the wishes of others who are more powerful.
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