So fucking real.


We monkeys came down out of the trees to live together so that we could all have fire and bananas.

It wasn’t so a few monkeys could hoard enough bananas to blast their cars in to space for fun. A society where the many enrich the few is absurd.

Can’t have everyone fed or there go profits, can’t keep people in line without the ever looming threat of state violence and starvation hanging over you.

Remember how they tend to throw their own production of food out instead of giving it away, because if they simply gave it to hungry people the profit would drop?

Fun

What would it mean/look like in practice if food was a human right?

Does that just mean there’s always a government paid food bank/coupons available? But that hardly sounds like a “human right”.

What about food that requires labor from as simple as picking it to preparing it like bread or full meals? If food is a human right does that mean I can go into a restaurant or bakery and ask for anything, or just a limited selection, for free? Or does it only mean I can freely pick from any non-human planted source, or can I pick corn from a field a farmer planted? Can I hunt anything and anywhere, including domesticated farm animals? Can I hunt out of season, without tags, male/female, old/young, protected or not, with whatever hunting means I want? How wasteful can I be with what I take (plenty of people would turn their nose at eating certain parks of animal or plants)? Does it only count for “healthy” food or junk food too? Or does it mean anyone can dumpster dive what’s thrown away? WHAT DOES IT MEAN???

Like water makes way more sense. If I’m at a water source, I can draw or collect from it for sustenance/life. Water fountains and tap water within private property being freely available since the infrastructure is already government paid. Seems pretty straight forward on how treating water as a right would be in practice. Food? Not so much.

You would think corporations would be all for guaranteed profits from government paying them top manufacturer basic necessities for everyone to have for free.

Uh. Yes. Literally thats it. Maybe the original intention of industrialized agriculture was to provide for everyone. But its pretty much always been just a means of making money…just like everything else in our lame ass human world.

You are entitled to my labor and it’s fruits as much as I am entitled to your labor and it’s fruits

To be fair, I suspect we only started stockpiling foodstuffs to feed troops.

Capitalism

We make about 40% more fresh food in the western would than we need. But supermarkets don’t like the shape, size, colour, etc .. and farmers are forced to throw it away for fear of incuring any further costs.

What I can’t understand is, assuming the oligarchs want to do oligarchy, why don’t they placate the masses? “bread and circuses” worked a lot longer in Rome than oppression did… just saying.

Laughs in disabled… I gotta beg people to survive. It’s a shitty way to live because I worked my entire life until I lost my leg and became paralyzed

Or water. That evil prick that runs Nestle said fresh, free water is not a human right. Seems like he may have changed his stance likely due to the backlash. You’re now entitled to some water as long as it’s his.

Commodity markets

Capitalism came with it. This country deserves to burn.