This is the same case to the less fortunate who tend to eat more food, when more of it is on offer. Financially, people should seek intervention measures when confronted by adverse health conditions. Afterward, the poor may perish as they lack resources to seek medical attention from health professionals. Economic factors are the determinants of the food one consumes. The fact, that the rich will still get healthy food while the poor survive on low quality foods.
Instead, a decent government-provided income buys food, and whatever money you have to yourself, whether from more governmental aid, or their own job, is spent on things of want, over need. Despite the ones filing for such aid, in all, I think it’s the governments fault for not taking control of the situation when it’s so easily visible, and for not having enough employers to assist those in need of work. If you can afford even a cell phone at all, you shouldn’t take away from someone less fortunate who might rely on said aid to even provide for
Small farmers benefit from consumers who choose them over Stop & Shop’s aisles of imports, and these small farmers are getting help from the government. When you buy local more money stays in the community. This would not be the case however if you bought from a big food chain which sends the money out all over the place. For local business owners, the money that is spent locally will eventually find its way back to them which in return helps strengthen the local economy and helps local businesses thrive and grow. While some argue that buying local threatens small farmers elsewhere in the world, they ignore that if everyone bought local food, everyone’s local economies would improve.
Placing profits above people isn’t socially responsible but is rather sociopathic and a microcosm of the larger problem that entails the current Capitalistic system that is used across the world. Company Q, is displaying a common capitalistic mind-frame that many companies engage in wherein they would rather focus on lost revenues than assisting the less fortunate. It’s troubling that the company wouldn’t donate day-old products to a food bank. The company does offer some organic foods, and this could be conceived as socially conscious if the food is obtained from traceable sources that are environmentally friendly growers. This social responsible act is overshadowed by the company’s decision to leave the inner city areas because of alleged loss of profits.
("Store Wars," n.d., Big store, business practices section, para. 1).The low prices may be great for the economy, but that's about all walmart is doing for America. For people who work at Walmart, in order to make ends meet, they usually have to work at two different jobs. Their significant other usually has to work, too. Not enough money and too much stress lowers the quality of life that people have, and their standards of living also drop, as they are forced to get by with cheap, low-quality items (Nickels, McHugh & McHugh, 2010).
The long-term provision of large quantities of food may force down domestic prices and make matters worse for domestic farmers. It could be considered better for farmers to have a reduction in the subsidies given to farmers in the developed countries. 6. Continued dependency on aid means there is little incentive to be innovative and people develop a welfare mentality. 7.
Another problem with food distribution is that governments, like those in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are exporting crops to countries willing to pay higher prices as opposed to feeding its own people (Haviland, 2011, 2008). This practice was the cause of a famine in India during its colonial days, when British rulers used Indians to produce cash crops to support its manufacturing plants in the U.K. Because the land and labor was utilized to produce export crops, there were little resources left to farm crops to feed the people of India and led to a revolutionary uprising of the Indian people against the British (Lancaster,
An example of this would be the local Southern Maryland Food Bank. Advantages of the Southern Maryland Local Food Bank is that local pantries are more connected to the people, so the volunteer organizations go to the local food pantries to donate their time and money. Some examples include the Loaves and Fishes Soup Kitchen at St. Paul’s Church, the Lifestyles of Maryland Food Pantry, and the Immaculate Heart of Mary Food Pantry. Some disadvantages to using a local food pantry is that local food pantries mainly rely on donations from outside organizations. Local food pantries don’t have the funds that the state and national government programs
• Preparedness for National Disaster/Fuel Crisis • Local produce taste better • Local produce is better for you • Promotes produce diversity • Is GMO free • Helps to build community • Good for local economy/supports local farmers • Beneficial for the environment 11 What are the challenges to local food in Vermont? • Diet adjustments would be needed • Production diversity is lacking • Lack of processing and storage facilities • Cheaper to import foods from agribusiness farms 16 What is currently being done to
Other than the fact that this movement would ultimately cause famine, it would also cause harm to the environment. Some people believe that eating local would lower the carbon footprint. Pelletier explains, however, that this notion is only partly true. The amount of pollution caused by trading goods is due to the type of transportation being used. Water transport has less environmental impact than transportation by train and even less than transportation by road.