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The right to food protects the right of all human beings to be free from hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition. [4] The right to food implies that governments only have an obligation to hand out enough free food to starving recipients to ensure subsistence, it does not imply a universal right to be fed.
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of him/herself and of his/her family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary Social services, and the right to social secuirity in the event of unemployement, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in ...
The law did not define food standards by chemists, but it did prohibit the "adulteration of food by the removal of valuable constituents, the substitution of ingredients so as to reduce quality, the addition of deleterious ingredients and the use of spoiled animal and vegetable products". [14]
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The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation reported that 663 million people did not have access to improved sources of drinking water and more than 2.4 billion people lacked access to basic sanitation services in 2015. [15] Access to clean water is a major problem for many parts of the world.
On the contrary, absolute deprivation is people's actual negative condition; relative deprivation is what people think they should have relative to what others have, or even compared with their own past or perceived future. Improved conditions fuel human desires for even better conditions and so can spark revolutions.
The French Academy dictionary suggested that the term 'gourmand' was a synonym of 'glutton' or 'greedy'. [5] Henri Brispot's A gourmand. An alternative and older usage of the word is to describe a person given to excess in the consumption of food and drink, as a glutton [2] or a trencherman. [citation needed]
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