Just governments ought to ensure food security for their citizens.

Positive Case: C1) A just government that is honorable, fair, and consistent with what is morally right in its dealings and actions. In the words of Fredric Bastiat from "The Law" about a just and enduring government, "If a nation were founded on this basis, it seems to me that order would prevail among the people, in thought as well as in deed. It seems to me that such a nation would have the most simple, easy to accept, economical, limited, nonoppressive, just, and enduring government imaginable "" whatever its political form might be. " A just government can not be oppressive. Every person has a natural right to individuality, liberty, and property. Governments that limit these natural rights therefore are unjust. If government imposes a duty upon citizens that government is by definition unjust. Every person should pursue activities based on their own desires to self their fellow man, being compensated through voluntary exchange. A just government cannot morally impose a duty upon a citizen to provide food to another citizen. A government that imposes duties upon citizens is not honorable, fair, or moral. Citizens that produce food should be able to voluntarily exchange the food products of their labor under mutually beneficial agreements without government interference. . http://www.econlib.org... 5 C2) Food availability based on free market prices Since, everyone requires food and that food is plentiful throughout the world. The issue is with distribution. The laws of supply and demand will force food prices to be very low. Governments increase prices of food due to protectionist policies. These policies drive up cost of food commodities to ensure local farmer"s jobs are protected. In addition, governments that requires food to be converted to fuels, cause demand for food commodities to be artificially high. Governments are the cause of artificially high food prices and distribution problems. Distribution problems are caused by protectionist policies. Rebuttals Contention #1: By law, the government is entitled to ensuring the well-being for all its citizens. Only unjust governments would have laws entitling government to ensure well-being of citizens. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights has no legal power over any nation. The purpose of the US Constitution was to protect citizen"s negative rights, not to grant positive rights. In the words of President Barack Hussein Obama about the US Constitution, "a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can't do to you. Says what the federal government can't do to you but doesn't say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf. " . http://www.usnews.com... Contention #2: If more people have access to food, it ensures a better economy and country. Government should not deny access to food. Food, same as all goods and services should move freely at market prices. Government distribution of food will only lead to shortages. Most every communist government suffered from food shortages, even Pol Pot"s Khmer Rouge that depopulated cities to force agricultural production. Communist governments will state that government has responsibility to provide for citizens. . http://worldwithoutgenocide.org...