Sunday, November 13, 2016
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About Me
- TGriffin
- I have been a language teacher (ESL/ELL, French) for 30 years. I have taught in public and private schools, immersion programs, refugee programs, adult/continuing education, elementary, middle, and high school as well as university. Currently I teach ELL at a high school somewhere in New England.
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ReplyDeleteI personally think that food shouldn't be a human right, which mean not everyone human deserves food. Long time ago when "human" don't have much intelligence, we don't sit in front of a computer and work for money. But instead, we hunt for food to survive, we hunt for animal's fur to keep us warm enough so we don't die to the super cold weather and turn into ice. In other words, we won't be able to survive if we don't hunt for preys. In a modern perspective, people don't deserve food of they are not working. I clearly know that it's a bit too ruthless for the people that don't want to work. But when everyone gets food no matter they are working or not, we create inequality in between the people that work and the people that don't. The people that are working will stop working anymore because it's unfair for them. Everyone notice that hunger is actually a huge problem in the world. We can't prevent this from happening because hunger is inevitable. We can't just donate the 5 dollars that our parents gives us for lunch money to help the people that are suffering because of hunger, our power is too little. But instead, we can create websites or post it on the social media and talk about how serious this problem is in the world. When people start paying attention of these hungry people, they could use their money to helps those who are in need.
If someone is asked what the most necessary thing in human’s life, he must say food without hesitation. Food is one of most important parts in our life. No one can live without eating food. So I believe that food is an indispensable right for human. Unfortunately，hunger is still a serious problem for your society. There are many people in the world we do not know facing the hunger problem. In Africa, many kids can only eat one meal for each day even less. So the food should be assigned reasonably. The rich who want to help may try to give the poor opportunities to earn their own food. At the same time, our teenagers should save food in our life and tell others do not waste food.
ReplyDeleteI think food is human's right, but you still have to work or study for it. If you just sit there and do nothing you can't get enough money or food to feed yourself and make yourself alive. The things you can do to help hunger people is don't waste food, and do some donation to help other people don't get hunger. Or the rich people can give work chance to the people who are hunger, let them get money, and show their work ability. If they can hold this chance they can become rich or famous make their life better.
ReplyDeleteI think there is enough food should be a human right, but some people often go hungry, some extravagance and waste. But even in the animal kingdom, food is not taken for granted, it is to be sought, and in human society as well. In fact, this question is very easy.The government's tax income from the rich is sufficient to support the poor. Probably the poor go hungry because they do not work hard, but also may be a social problem, if so, the government does not care about them, the money is still in rich people's hands. Some governments even have no money to themselves, their country is likely to be a natural disaster or war, if there is no other country to help them, they will have to think of their own way to survive. If all the human help each other, not selfish, the world will not be a lack of food. So some people can't find enough food, a large part of the responsibility of society.
ReplyDeleteEvery 5 children have 1 of them is in hunger. That's a huge number for the America or the most powerful country in the world. Food, the necessity of our daily life, everyone can live without food. You don't have to eat fancy food but the healthy food. Food should be a human right, because you can't live without it. And to ensure everyone have enough the government should teach each generation the way of agriculture, what is the most efficient way to plant seeds. For what we can do I think is that save money spend less money form food, and do some donation for the poor region.
ReplyDeleteI think that food is a human right, it's true that 1 in 9 people in the world don't have enough food for a healthy life and most of them are children as the World Food Programme said. So during these days many people won't have enough food for this celebration called Thanksgiving. So basically, I think that we can't ensure that everyone of the world, every person gets enough food to eat that's so difficult to achieve. But we can help other people to have food, like not wasting the food that we don't want to eat or maybe we could cook for the others and give it to them or eaither recollecting. There are so many ways to help people to have at least one thing for eat during the day. So if we could make that all together there wouldn't be so many people dying because of lack of food.
ReplyDeleteFood is human right. I think to let everyone can gets enough food to eat in this country is a huge problem to the government. The government should think a correct way to let everyone gets food, and the best way we can help is don't waste any food.
ReplyDeleteFood is absolutely a human right. Every 9 people have 1 of them is in hunger. That is a very big number of the world. It's a big problem that we need to solve and face. Everyone can not live without eating food. You don't have to eat fancy food but healthy food to let people be full. So what we should do is don't waste food. And the rich should give poor people some money to let them eat healthy food to alive. Government also need to help them about their life. We also need to encourage people to save food and don't waste food. That can help their life become better.
ReplyDeleteFood is a human right. Most of people have enough food. But we also have hunger. We have to help them get food. First increase our technology, then increase aquaculture area. Some rich people like variety food. So they will waste lots of food. We need give hunger chances to make more money. Don't waste food, help hunger. They're life will be better.
ReplyDeleteFood are totally human rights, because people can't leave with out food. It shows 1 in 9people in the world don't have enough food, that shocked me and this is also a very big problems that we need to solve. Now a days people wast more and more food after they finish the meal, after that food will move to dustbin. But if people make sure they don't wast food, there will be more resources left so the food will be cheaper then everyone will have food to eat. We can also donate money to help people have nothing to eat.
ReplyDeleteFood is necessary in our lives, we rely on food to survive. We always waste a lot of food in our daily lives. We can save our food in daily life and reduce unnecessary waste. If we take less food every time we take, we may reduce the excess of food and leave the rest. . A person's strength is limited, we can promote this knowledge, so that we understand the world's daily consumption of food and waste of the amount, so that everyone aware of the importance of saving food, so it will greatly reduce famine.
ReplyDeleteFood is important things in our life,we depend on food.Many people can't eat enough food or they don't have anything to eat,that's very pitiful.We lived in a good environment,our parents give us best education,good economic condition,and you must feel gratified.So please cherish now,don't waste food and anything elses.I think that's important.
ReplyDeleteI think sometimes you can buy somethings to those who are hungry,to take care of them.If people in all over the world could do this,and the people who are hungry will greatly reduce.So don't waste food,from now on!
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Mr.Griffin
ELL Journal
Nov 26, 2016
The day goes and Thanksgiving is close to us, which is an excited thing. We are gonna have various foods on that day, we will eat a lot. However, in the meantime, there is almost 10 percent people in the world don't have enough food, some of them are children. I recon that get enough food is the most fundamental human rights in the world. It relatives to human life. To the countries, should establish a association about save hunger. Also, the poor countries need to come out a high quality way to agrarian (such as Isreal). To people, most of us, need to reduce the wasting of food. We can also prepare food and bring them to the church or somewhere that can help people who don't have enough food.
Thanksgiving is a good holiday. In this holiday, all the stuff will on sale. People always buy a lot of thing when it is Black Friday. In Thanksgiving, we will eat a lot of food together, and we will eat Turkey. Hope everybody have a good vacation.
ReplyDeleteThis isn't a response to the question, Plant. TG
DeleteI think food is not a human right because everyone in the society is required to do something for people as the personal contribution, and if you don't do anything, you are absolutely not allowed to get food which belongs to the society. Those policies that offer poor people money and food are not made as the responsibility of government but the humanitarianism of all the people who are willing to give food to those poor people. About the hunger, some people have money but can't buy food, I think it is because of the food grows in different places with different requirements, equipments, and environments, some places are poor but have a lot of people, some places are fertile but have few people. Because transporting food in all over the world will be very hard and expensive, I think the only way let everyone has enough food to eat is to grow some new kinds of food with larger producing quantity. For ourselves, don't waste food is the best thing we can do.
ReplyDeleteFood should not be human right. First thing, if food is human right, there will be a lot of people don't do work because why do they have to, they have food for free. Second People will try to get as many food as they can and keep getting food and storing them for the future, this could cause a large amount of animals disappear in a near future. What we can do at least is to lower the cost of food. As a student, we can help homeless person with some money to buy food.
ReplyDeleteI think food is a human right, everyone can eat food unless they are poor. But there are a few of people that can not get enough food to eat or even have nothing to eat. To ensure everyone can get food to eat we have today's Thanksgiving. Like today is Thanksgiving I went to volunteer which was served food to the people who can not eat enough food. All the food there were from volunteers. A lot of people got help which was so good. So in my opinion, if you can get enough food to eat, don't waste any food because there are many people who can not eat. And if you are accommodated, everyday can be your "Thanksgiving" because you can help people to eat everyday. In this way, fewer and fewer people will go hungry.
ReplyDeleteFood is a human right. But still have people don't have enough food for a healthy life. Make sure everyone has food to eat is impossible.The available land is less and less so food will be less and less. The world develops too fast, without a satisfactory transition, so some people havn't food to eat, people die for hunger. We only can do, be cherishing the grain and do our best to help people who do not have food.
ReplyDeleteIn my perspective, I think food is a human right, which means people would have the right to get their own food. In this modern society, many people are homeless and hunger. A large number of this phenomenons are happening in Africa and some countries which have wars of all years around. People are always painful in those situation. Especially hungers are centrally producing there, furthermore, children are always the most sufferer in hungers. Because adults may have some more energy to keep their body, but children don’t. Also, adults are stronger than children, which means if there are some foods that serve for people, compare with children’s ability and adults’s, adults would absolutely get more food than children do, sometimes children even get nothing.
ReplyDeleteHunger is a huge problem in this world that we need to concern about. In my own opinion, the solutions that we can solute it is that to do less wars for damaging people who are suffered; to gather more people participating in and to appeal more people helping them just like the Red Cross. Everyone uses his tiny power, if connect these power together, it would be very huge power to help people who is hunger and homeless. Some people think hungers in this world is very formal, and this is their’s destiny. However, in my point of view, with our own strength to help people would have a sense of accomplishment. Also people who are in the great circumstance help people who need help would make the world better and develop at the human-beings.
Of course food is human's right. Food is the fundamental thing to live. You can't live without food. That's means if food is not human's right the people don't have food can not survive. So food is human's right. But there still have few people can't have food. In my opinion the solution is the government can come up more policy to help those people especially in slum area. And build more rescue station for them.
ReplyDeleteFood is a human right. However there are some people who don't have enough food to eat. I think the most important problem is the people they don't have food are lazy. They want to have food without any work. They want somebody give them food. But the problem is why we should give the people who don't want to work food. The right for human is the opportunity to work for the things that you want not only food. Also there are many children that don't have food to eat. I know children don't have the ability to work, but their parents should be responsible for them instead of the community and the government. What we should do is tell them and push them to work hard for their health, life and children. Besides, I think the education is also important for the children who has the parents that believe the food can get for nothing. I believe the environment can change a person's whole life. So in my opinion, the better way to solve the problem is to teach the people who are poor how to get food instead of giving them food. What I will do for it? I will study hard and work hard in the future. I will try to be a person who don't need the help of the community. If I can be a person who is individual, I will buy a lot of thing that I need because I know that I am helping a person who is working hard for his or her family finish his or her work and make him or her get together with his family soon.
ReplyDeleteI think food is human's right. We need food, we can not survive without food. Thinks giving is a big holiday for American people, so they will celebrate it by eating turkey and a lots of food. But many of them don't care about the people that doesn't have food to eat. I think we need to be environmental, do not waste food. And I think that we can do donation to help the hunger get some money to eat. Also the government have to care about them. I hope everyone can eat enough food everyday.
ReplyDeleteI consider food a human right, and I think that every one should have the same amount of food, no mater what. The problem with us is that we don't divide it equally, like for example the rich countries get more food than what they need, and fat people come from the. In the other hand the poor countries don't get almost anything. They are starving while other people consume so much that they become fat, or they just throw food away! That is not fair. There should be a system that divides food equally, no mater how poor or rich the country. Every one should have the same amount of food no matter what.
ReplyDeleteI think every one is equal, whatever the human is poor or rich. I consider food a human right and every one should have the same amount of food. For example rich countries get more food and the fats people come from there. So we need a place where evenly distributed.
ReplyDeleteFor American, thanksgiving is a great importance day everyone have a variety of food to eat. However, there are also a number of individuals without enough food such as homeless absence of money to buy food or no family. During the thanksgiving, I saw some person sitting on the ground with a small box, because he hope someone help him. At the same time, I think that America government can supply some provision to those person and they can avoid of starvation. I also hope that people can help those person to figure out the huge problem that people without enough food.
ReplyDeleteAs far as I am concerned the food is human right. The right to food guarantees freedom from hunger and access to safe and nutritious food. Several key human rights principles are fundamental to guaranteeing the right to food are;availability,accessibility and sustainability. All people are not equal. However, this inequality is not include foods. Food is basic need for human body so people have access it. Also, one person cannot solve the hunger problem alone. It will take many. Solving world hunger requires people coming together from all career fields. Hunger is the new generation's problem ;but If we make concurrence , it is nothing...
ReplyDeleteSAMET FEYZIOGLU
Thanksgiving is a long time ago, people in the United States just on this mysterious continent, native of food for them, help them to survive, to the prosperity of the United States today, so we should be grateful indeed food Thanksgiving, but can't afford to waste them, if you can we should put the food to share with those who really need the food to survive, so don't waste our Thanksgiving foods nature of grateful give us.
ReplyDeleteYes I think so. I think increase GDP to make the people richer can buy food they were no hungry. As far as I know there are many stars around us and they are such people. For example, Jackie Chan in 2004 as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, in 2006 selected for "Forbes" magazine's "Top Ten Charity Star." He is a nice person.
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ReplyDeleteThanksgiving day is something special. It is time you spend with your family. Unfortunately this day isn't in countries as Africa and other countries. Hunger is a big problem for the whole world. Some people have too much food and they become fat. Other people don't have enough food and they die. It is not fair but this is life. Many comanies try to help poor countries and stop hunger. It is too hard. I think it is right to help poor countries with this huge problem. Everyone should help.
Thanks, everyone, for your comments on hunger. Most of you believe food is a human right, though some of you disagree, and say people should work for their food. Many of you express your criticism of food waste, noting that well-off people throw away too much food.
ReplyDeleteI think that food is a human right, it's true that 1 in 9 people in the world don't have enough food for a healthy life and most of them are children. So during these days many people won't have enough food for this celebration called Thanksgiving. But we can help other people to have food, like not wasting the food that we don't want to eat or maybe we could cook for the others and give it to them or eaither recollecting. We could make those people that don't have food for the day to have one or even two time a day food for their children or just for them.
ReplyDeleteA human's life based on food and water.food is right of a person surely.But it is hard to make sure everyone do have food to eat , if you want to eat food, one way is produce it by yourself, another way is use money buy it. If somebody doesn't have anyone of those , he can't have food. The things we can let them have food are donate money to them,order food that you can totally finish.
ReplyDeleteI'm agree that food is a human right and there are a lot of peaple who lack of this right because they don't have enough money to buy it or whatever but also there's a lot of people whi waste a lot of food. For example thanksgiving is a celebration where we gonna spent a day with our families and also is a celebration where we are going to aet a lot but also we are goignt to waste a lot of food for the big amount that we cooked. I think instead of throw all these food away we can give it to the organization who take care of the homeless people etc... or instead of cook all these amount of food what we can do is just cook the necessary food that we are going to it and donate X amount of money or food to these organizations for the people who need these money.
ReplyDeleteThanksgiving day is something special. It is time you spend with your family. Unfortunately this day isn't in countries as Africa and other countries. Hunger is a big problem for the whole world. Some people have too much food and they become fat. Other people don't have enough food and they die. It is not fair but this is life. Many comanies try to help poor countries and stop hunger. It is too hard. I think it is right to help poor countries with this huge problem. Everyone should help.
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Mr. Griffin
Food are for sure and of course a human right. According to the Maslow's hierarchy of needs physiology is the most important and basic thing that people need. Which is food, breath,water and sleep. If these requirements are not met, the human body cannot function properly and will ultimately fail. Other way people will die without this physiology need. I think today's world food or resource are separate out unbalanced. Upper class and mid class people owned and lavished most of this. According to a recent UNEP and WRI( World resources institute), about 1/3 all food produced worldwide, wroth around 1 trillion, are bet lost or wasted.
If we save this big number of food that being wasted, and give to those type of people who needs it. I think the world will be much more less "hunger"
I think food is human's right, In my opinion, we have a lot of ways to solve this problem, for example, we can make more people donate food donations to help those who are hungry and homeless people, I think we should not waste food. We can use this way to help those hungry people.
ReplyDeleteOf course, food is a human right. Every human need food to live, but not all human have the opportunity to eat food. This is a serious problem. We are in the 21 century and nowadays there is people dying because of the absence of food. This is really embarrassing because there are a lot of ways to prevent this problem. I know about different campaigns that the government organize that consist on recollecting foods in the schools. And then this foods are spread around the world to the countries that need it. Also some rich people give money to social companies which use it to buy foods.
ReplyDeleteIt makes me think about it and I realized that we don't have to throw food, because there is people that fight for it every single day. We should think how much hungry we are before any meal, and take the correspondence portion. If you are not hungry take a small quantity, in that way you don't have to throw it away.
We have solutions for this problem, now we just have to know how to manage them.
I think food is people right.So during these days many people won't have enough food for this celebration called Thanksgiving. But we can help other people to have food, like not wasting the food that we don't want to eat or maybe we could cook for the others and give it to them or eaither recollecting.
ReplyDeleteI think food is human's right. But we should do something to get it. We can don't do anything just wait another people give you food, we should work by our hand, we can help poor people to get food, rich people can give them money. Have food is our right.
ReplyDeleteFood is basic human rights. I think human have three basic rights. First is food, second is house, last one is clothes. Food is important to live. Because the United States is a capitalist state, there is a gap between rich and poor. I think the rich should help the poor. It is more important in capitalist countries. We must give food to hungers.
ReplyDeleteFood is the most important thing for human. Everyone need to get food everyday to make sure they got energy.
ReplyDeleteAnd the hunger is a problem for all over the world. Every country still have some people are poor or homeless. When we are having good food, they probably have nothing to eat. If you see a hunger sometimes, it is a good thing to give him some food. But this can't solve the basic problem. For the poor guys, they probably need to find a job to get food by themselves. Not only taking food from someone else. But being a nice people to giving some food to the hunger is not a bad thing. Because share is the best thing in the world.
People have to eat in order to live so I think food is human rights. However many people are suffering from hunger. So I think people need to help that kind of people. Well being altogether is most happy thing so we need to help and share each other
ReplyDeleteI think that food is a human right because we need it to live and to have nutrients and all the things that we need to stay a life are a human right because they are essential. To make sure that people have food I think people that have a lot of food need to save with those that doesn't have that much food because in that case the people that have a lot does help and they have more food and the people that didn't have food now have a little. When I was in Spain I used to give some food like Mc Donald to the people that are in the street asking for some food. I give them that because is cheap for me but I can make them happy.
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ReplyDeleteThanksgiving is an important day in America. I think it like New Year in China.The turkey is delicious. I think it good.Everyone pays attention to Thanksgiving.Think about that,your friends and your relatives were come.And you will eat turkey together on a table. I think its a good time on that day.
Tony, this doesn't respond to the question. TG
DeleteThanksgiving break is set for a word of thanks, thank of Americans for Indians give them food. When British arrived in America, they have no food to eat. They were very hungry, when they're finding food. Finally they found Indians,and Indian people provide the food to these strange and hungry British. The story is this, and it's where thanksgiving come from. Thanksgiving is a festival of food, it tell us: it's fortunate to have food to eat; and remind us: today, there are still a lot of people don't have food to eat, so we should be thankful for all the food we have. There are a lot of people in this world don't have food. We should help them, and remember how fortunate we are having food to eat.
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ReplyDeleteThanksgiving is one of the best holidays of the year. Last year I had the great opportunity of going to my friend's house at Portland where I had a delicious dinner. We ate so much food. We got turkey, potatoes with sauce, glazed carrots... Everything was so good. In my opinion food is definately a human right. Thanks to the food we can get energy and happiness. I also think that food makes you to socialize. You get energy thanks to the nutrients and happiness because food is just delicious. You can also socialize more because you would hang out with your friends for having dinner or for cooking food. That's why I think everyone should get the chance of getting food. Unfortunately there are a lot of hunger people in the world. We cannot help every single person, but we can help most of them by doing small things. For example giving food to the people we see in the street without food. In my case, back in Spain I always used to do food volunteer