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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 02:25:42 JST Aral Balkan

   • XenoLurch🏴

   In 2021 at the UN, out of 182 countries only two voted against recognising a “right to food” for everyone.

   Can you guess which ones?

   Did you say Israel and the US?

   You’re right.

   https://press.un.org/en/2021/gashc4336.doc.htm

   Via @XenoLurch

   #Israel #US #RightToFood

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 06:44:01 JST Aral Balkan

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     • XenoLurch🏴
     • Jasmine

     @void_trans @XenoLurch Now take the amounts and normalise them to the percentage of each country’s GDP and a different story emerges. Germany, the second-largest donor to WFP, actually contributes ~1.5 times as much as the US does as a percentage of its GDP (0.028% vs 0.044%).

     And they also somehow managed to vote that everyone has a right to food.

     So maybe it’s possible to do both after all.

     🤷♂️

     Sources:

     https://www.wfp.org/funding/2022

     https://databankfiles.worldbank.org/public/ddpext_download/GDP.pdf

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     Jasmine (void_trans@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 06:44:02 JST Jasmine

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     • XenoLurch🏴

     @aral @XenoLurch that's what the vote was.
     Guess which country paid the most money in food security?

     The answer is United States.

     Words don't matter. Actions do.

     But y'all will never go above "america bad"