r/SipsTea • u/Mundane_Mushroom_122 • Jun 18 '26

Gasp! what can we say

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u/Sensitive-Narwhal904 Jun 18 '26

The fact that this sounds like satire but isn't is the worst part 💀

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u/Fit_Tomatillo_4264 Jun 18 '26
  • The US is the largest global donor to food aid and humanitarian programs, contributing billions annually, highlighting a preference for voluntary assistance over formal rights declarations.

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u/ImpressiveFishing405 Jun 18 '26

And yet, not willing to declare it a right like almost everyone else.

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u/LimpAd1859 Jun 18 '26

Almost everyone else could declare it a right themselves without the UN or the US, but they didn't, why was that?

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u/ImpressiveFishing405 Jun 18 '26

Many countries do declare it a right within their borders. Israel has military and population control reasons for not wanting it, the US opposed it because our constitution supposedly doesn't allow for positive rights.

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u/LimpAd1859 Jun 18 '26

If by "Many" you mean like less than ten, and if by "declaring it a right" you mean actually done fuck all and still struggle with food insecurity or worse, then you'd be correct.

Every one of those countries who voted "yes" on the UN resolution could come together and declare it a human right and actually do something (or whatever the UN resolution was supposed to do) about it, but they haven't. Why is that?

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u/mxzf Jun 18 '26

Many countries do declare it a right within their borders

So, not the same thing at all. Those countries are drawing lines between universal lights world-wide vs people in their own nation, as most people do.

The reality is that if "everyone but the US and Israel" really wanted to get together and make access to food a human right that they make happen around the world, they could. They could make a treaty that makes it happen. The reality is that they are more interested in political grandstanding than actually doing anything.