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[[Category:Social issues]]

Latest revision as of 19:59, 22 November 2024

Food security is the measure of the availability of food and individuals' ability to access it.

Under capitalism, food (and other commodities) are distributed on the basis of profitability, which leads to heightened food insecurity especially among the poor. This structural deficiency is sometimes addressed with charity work, voluntary assistance, driven by humanist or religious convictions.[1]

Socialism, on the other hand, tends to guarantee access to food as a right, and limits the market reliance on food distribution.

Even the anti-communist CIA was forced to report the inconvenient facts that citizens of the USSR had a better nutrition than that of the United States.[2]

In 2022, the UN has warned that the Russo-Ukraine crisis could lead to a global food crisis.[3]

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