Dearest HumanDHS Friend!

George Kent has written a book on the human right to adequate food that came out earlier this year. Please see the publisher's promotion for it at http://press.georgetown.edu/detail.html?id=1589010566

He writes to us:
The book takes a human rights perspective, not a biological perspective. It makes the point that the core issue is not nutrients, but dignity. I think that very often the major harm that comes from going hungry is not the disease and death that it produces, but the humiliation. In some contexts, the hungry die not from illness but from suicide.

Thus there is an intersection, an overlap, between your agenda and mine. However, at this stage, I don't see how to develop the thought further. If there are others among your contacts who have similar interests, perhaps a small group could be assembled to explore it. Or do you have some other idea on how the theme of the humiliation of hunger could be pursued?

Aloha, George