War And Famine Research Paper
War and Famine
Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines
Miguel Huerta
San Jose State University
Professor Andrea Whitson
Nufs 139
War and Famine
It is hard to fathom that poverty and malnutrition is still a prominent problem around the world. Especially when there is enough to go around so that everyone has food on their plate, but people are still dying from hunger, malnutrition, and food insecurity. What is even harder to swallow is the fact that famine is a socially constructed issue. There are resources to eliminate hunger and famine in the world, but the fact is the wealthy, and government don’t take proper steps to ensure its elimination, which in turn, causes people to die of famine, disease, and malnutrition. In time of conflict, famine increases. In time of war, there are people that die because production stops, imports and exports cease during this period, leaving poor innocent people with nothing to eat. Is it morally correct in time of war to use food as a weapon, in order to force your rival to surrender? Leaving countless of innocent and poor people to suffer the …show more content…
The saddest part of all this is the fact that when it comes to conflict and famine, “in Africa and most deaths in these population have occurred among children under 5 years of age” (Hogan 2001, 454). Children perish, and are the most vulnerable to effects of war. Africa has not been the only incident of famine correlated to war. In the Soviet Union, “in 1946-47, which took between one and two million lives” (Ganson 2009, 240). In this case the damage of war caused famine in Soviet Union. The policies the government had in place prolonged the famine crisis. This leads to a problem in the judicial system. More policies need to be set in order to help eradicate food insecurity, such as more funding, and greater aid and protection for those people that are very
Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines
Miguel Huerta
San Jose State University
Professor Andrea Whitson
Nufs 139
War and Famine
It is hard to fathom that poverty and malnutrition is still a prominent problem around the world. Especially when there is enough to go around so that everyone has food on their plate, but people are still dying from hunger, malnutrition, and food insecurity. What is even harder to swallow is the fact that famine is a socially constructed issue. There are resources to eliminate hunger and famine in the world, but the fact is the wealthy, and government don’t take proper steps to ensure its elimination, which in turn, causes people to die of famine, disease, and malnutrition. In time of conflict, famine increases. In time of war, there are people that die because production stops, imports and exports cease during this period, leaving poor innocent people with nothing to eat. Is it morally correct in time of war to use food as a weapon, in order to force your rival to surrender? Leaving countless of innocent and poor people to suffer the …show more content…
The saddest part of all this is the fact that when it comes to conflict and famine, “in Africa and most deaths in these population have occurred among children under 5 years of age” (Hogan 2001, 454). Children perish, and are the most vulnerable to effects of war. Africa has not been the only incident of famine correlated to war. In the Soviet Union, “in 1946-47, which took between one and two million lives” (Ganson 2009, 240). In this case the damage of war caused famine in Soviet Union. The policies the government had in place prolonged the famine crisis. This leads to a problem in the judicial system. More policies need to be set in order to help eradicate food insecurity, such as more funding, and greater aid and protection for those people that are very