There Is Hunger and There Is Plenty of Food

 

It should be noted the dramatic increase in the number of people suffering from hunger, has made two things clear: one, there is no cause-effect relationship between the increase in population and hunger, which is confirmed by the deplorable destruction of food surpluses based on economic profit. In other words, there is plenty of food, but there is no political will to reach everyone, because the will that prevails is economic; it does not seek to feed the hungry, it seeks to obtain the maximum benefit, even at the expense of the hungry. This bad policy, has repercussions for the achievement of other rights, beginning with the primary right to life. If I understand correctly, this means that in order to ensure the right to life with dignity, it is necessary previously, or at least simultaneously,

Secondly, the responsibility of one for the other, based on the common belonging to the universal human family. This must be understood well: it is not just that since we are all brothers and sisters, we have to help each other. It is that the goods of the earth belong to all to be distributed among all. That is why we should speak not only of a solidarity animated by love, but of a justice that encourages others to give "what is theirs", what belongs to them as a member of a family in which goods are shared. The consequence is clear: if a people in need appropriates the superfluous goods of other peoples, they do not steal because they take what is theirs. How to translate that politically? For now there is no translation, what there are reprisals and international courts to punish those who dare to take what is “theirs”.