Resolved: Just governments ought to ensure food security for their citizens.

Imagine a world without the government. What if the government seized to exist? What if every human was allowed their human rights? Allowed to make their own choices of their whole entire life. If every human was given their human right to decide on what is just, what is important, what the right punishment for every crime is, where the borders lie for their own land; well, I"m sure every person on earth would agree that it would be utter chaos. So, when civilization began to group together in small nomadic tribes, we began to see the rise of order by means of an elder woman who would have the reigns on the tribe. After the tribes of people settled into cities and towns and buildings began to be built then came the times of the Kings, Queens, and Popes. The end of that time started the new idea of government. Where people could move up the economic scale and officials were put into place for the good and safety of the people. Since we give up our rights it is more than vital that we also gain something. We should expect our basic needs. If the government can supply us with water, heat, electricity, and now internet services why can they not provide us with food as well? Any just government should be able to provide food security for their people. Some people may think that the food industry is a major part of our economy so how will we flourish as an economy if food safety is taken into consideration.If you take a look at the economy a good chunk does come from the food industry. In 2008 the frozen food industry made $100 Billion and the food industry made a $126 Billion revenue (http://www.economywatch.com...). That is a good heap of money for the economy but if you look at the amount we waste and compare it to the revenue. We lose more than we gain. 4 millions tonnes of food are wasted annually around the world. 37% of food is wasted during production. The expiration dates are just a protection from lawsuits, the food is good well past their expiration date. Pests take 25% of our crops. (http://www.theneweconomy.com...) And to prevent that we come up with the GMO seeds to increase production and provide protection from the pests. But that hasn"t really done much. GMO"s wind up causing major tumors. So the idea of harm to the global economy wouldn"t be a problem if we use our food wisely and its production is wise. The government has an obligation to provide food security for its people because the government wouldn"t have people to govern if it didn"t have healthy and fed people. This is a vital aspect of this whole argument. If the government wants people to drop like flies then it shouldn"t matter if there is food or not. If they want a fully populated governed country then the need for people is high. It is a basic need of life. We have needs and those needs need to be met in order for people to function enough to further themselves and become more efficient in society. There are many laws that are placed throughout the world to help the hungry from dying of hunger. There are many people who fight everyday of their life for a right that should automatically be available to all the people of this globe. The biggest thing though is that if there is such an abundance of food then there should be no person who is starving. Food security is defined as food availability, food access, and food utilization (USAID 1995) This means that there is enough food for people who cannot afford it and that there is a fair price on foods that have been sold after giving to the people who cannot afford them. If their are high priced farms that they be sold at low prices or they be given to the less fortunate. This is the way that the world should work, every person helping another. Especially the government. Food security is a vital aspect of the globe because the more starving people there are there are, the less the jobs being executed. This causes a huge catastrophe for the economy and the government. For example, the Roman Empire, during the end of the empire there is a huge decline of their people this happened only because there was a lot of Malaria virus in the area and the people of the Roman Empire figured out a way to control the virus and then a new strain came in brought up from another group of travelling nomads and this new strain they were unable to adapt to. This caused a decline in people which meant fewer jobs were being done and people died because they weren't able to purchase necessary items because they either didn't have the money for it or they simply were not able to obtain the item. This caused the huge, rapid, and deathly ed to one of the strongest and largest Empires. If there are too many jobs and not enough people to the job the company loses its money, the products are wasted, the land is wasted, and the economy declines. Slowly and steadily the country begins to become a vat of empty houses, empty businesses, and starving people. If everybody had food and worked for the sake of working to get things like cars and other high end items the world would resolve many of its problems too. So the government would get double the benefit. They would have more people to govern and they wouldn't have to worry about people killing each other for food. Food is a basic necessity of life. People need food in order to properly function. A person who is starving will be willing to commit any crime for them to replenish that need. Abraham Maslow who said that a person needs to meet their basic needs before they can even consider moving higher. A perfect example would be me, I need to have food before I can really bunker down and try writing this debate. I need food before I can concentrate. In fact every school says that before you sit down or an exam it would be a good idea to have a large and healthy breakfast. So according to all those studies and Maslow having food is a necessity and no person should be denied that right. Healthy and hunger Free Kids is the number one law that came to be in America back in 2010. It states that if any family is unable to provide their child with food the school will give them a healthy meal. That would include a breakfast meal and a lunch meal. For a more global evaluation, India has a number of NGOs (Non-governmental organizations) that were created to provide men, women, and children who have no food with free and healthy, fresh food. In Africa there are a number of schools that have decided to provide under privileged children with food at school. There also is an organization that funds the African people with a specific seed called the Hydroseed. This is a type of seed that is modified so it can survive and flourish with little to no water. That has increased crop revenue and been able to provide an ample amount of food to the farmers and their neighbors who use this seed. There also are a number of soup kitchens and organizations that try and provide food to the needy. But if the government took this under their wing and provided food for their people, there would be a larger abundance of people and there would be less disease epidemics because everybody would be getting the same food so we would be able to quickly find what is wrong with what food. As people of this day and age where we have the whole world in our palm it is disgusting to see how much we waste. We have a vast abundance of food. Globally we waste enough food to feed all those who are starving and have left-overs for seconds. See the amount of food that people throw away on a daily basis is truly astonishing. The grocery store for example has every food imaginable and every food has an expiration date. People are misguided into thinking that once that expiration date has passed that the food is toxic then. That isn"t the case. Many times the food is perfectly fine and healthy to be consumed just it isn"t because if somebody were to get sick the expiration date would be a legal case to protect the dairy farmer from being sued. Everyday fresh loaves of bread, vegetables, fruits, beans, rice, etc. are thrown away because they don"t look good enough to sell. They aren"t thinking of the people who have no food and would gladly eat this food with no problem. I have personally worked at a fast food restaurant and the amount of wastage is just incredible. Listen to this. The place I worked at was a deep fried chicken place called Pens-a-tucky Fried Chicken (PFC) every hour you had to throw away the hour old chicken and put in a fresh batch. A perfectly fine tray of at least 50 pieces of chicken tossed because it had "expired". That wasn"t even the worst part. They did this with every dish on the menu. Every night we would stay after hours and peel the meat off the bones of only specific types of meats, and if one worker felt lazy the whole tray would get tossed. The floors were caked with oil and so were the walls. I never had pimples but the huge amount of grease took a toll on my clear skin. PFC made a rule that workers couldn"t take home left over food which is beyond stupid because somebody is willing to eat your food before it goes to waste. Every human on earth deserves good, healthy food. If we are given air to breathe, water to drink, electricity to survive, then why is food left out? Nobody can live their whole life without food and it is an obligation of the government to provide its people with the necessary nourishment to sustain life. This will only be possible though if you force the government to accommodate every life. When all people join together to make all people realize that we are in this together and so helping one another out is the only way we are going to survive in this big mean world. Thank you for your time.