Why do our people have to perform their hunger to try to bring greater urgency to our food crisis – from the description of hunger pangs and the embarrassment of not being able to carry lunch to school, to the anger of having to beg for this basic ...
‘To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of hunger and deprivation is to dehumanise them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country,” Nelson Mandela told a joint US Congress sitting on 26 June 1990, just a few months after being released from prison.
But it seems we and particularly our government are unmoved by this. The food justice battle is about fighting to access sufficient and nutritious food, to not be locked into cycles of bad nutritional choices as manipulated by the big food industry for profit, along with the debilitating effects of diseases that result from inadequate nutrition. Not to mention the impact on the country’s economic productivity.
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