‘Green New Deal’ Doesn’t Go Far Enough, Says UN ‘Right to Food’ Expert

Cybercast News Service ^ | March 1, 2019 | 4:43 AM EST | Patrick Goodenough

[Olog-hai]

The Democrats’ “Green New Deal” proposal is praiseworthy but does not go far enough, the U.N.’s “right to food” expert said in an article posted Friday — one day after she was accused of ignoring the severe food crisis in Venezuela.

Hilal Elver, a U.S.-based Turkish academic appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) in 2014 as “special rapporteur on the right to food,” said the Democratic initiative would be the first major U.S. effort “to address the threat of climate change as dynamic, multi-dimensional, and ubiquitous, and for that alone, it deserves praise.” However, she added that the Green New Deal (GND) proposal — which critics view as aggressively radical, even socialist — “falls far short.” […]

Hillel Neuer, executive director of the non-governmental organization U.N. Watch, asked her why it was that “out of 11,058 words [in the report], there is not one, not one word, for the millions of Venezuelans who can’t get enough to eat?”

He noted that, of the nine country visits she has made since taking up her mandate, not one was to Venezuela. “If your mandate is to defend hungry people, why have you refused to write a report, or call for an urgent debate, or a commission of inquiry for families who are now forced to adopt emergency strategies of the kind used during famine in war-torn countries?” Neuer asked. “Are you not aware that 34 percent of people in Venezuela are either selling assets to buy food, eat from garbage bins, or sending a child to beg for food?” …

[ThunderSleeps]

Let me know when they get all the way down to a “right to a Ferrari” - I think I want to break with tradition and go with gunmetal gray.

[hal ogen]

hilal alver needs a MOAB on her misshapen head...NOW! What a nitwit and waste of space.

[Vaduz]

The right to food expert must have never seen what goes on in the natural world.
Needs to spend a month in the jungle.

[utahb52]

Of course, the lack of food in Venezuela is entirely artificial. There is a huge amount of food aid ready to enter but is being kept out by the army because the socialists can never allow themselves to admit it’s their fault. they would rather see the whole country starve than admit their responsibility or be seen accepting help from the United States.

In the 21st century lack of food is not an issue, it is corruption that prevents food from getting to people. The other issue is that when nations like the US donate food to countries in Africa it crashes the local market and no farmer can compete so they become subsistence farmers instead of commercial. If the UN really wants to do something they should start agricultural schools in Africa and teach the people how to live without assistance.