ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the principle that all people deserve food and provides an overview of hunger and the right to food. There are two huge challenges ahead. The first is ensuring that there is no hunger anywhere and that all peoples have enough to eat. The second is ensuring that food is healthy. It is important to note that when scholars and practitioners, human rights activists, and nongovernment organization workers say "food is a human right," they mean healthy food and clean water. Scientists are discovering that food–in the broadest sense of that word–is already impacted by climate change and this is not only irreversible but will get worse. Three United Nations agencies focus on food to reduce worldwide hunger. Also, it is the concept of what is live–from carrots to cows–is merely valuable as a commercial product–that is, vegetables are not grown, they are produced, and chickens are not raised, they are mass produced.
