{"id":4400,"date":"2014-10-08T11:43:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T15:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=4400"},"modified":"2014-10-11T17:50:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T21:50:45","slug":"the-city-that-ended-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=4400","title":{"rendered":"The City That Ended Hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the &#8220;Daily Good:&#8221; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailygood.org\/story\/351\/the-city-that-ended-hunger-frances-moore-lapp-\/\" target=\"_blank\">The City That Ended Hunger<\/a>&#8221; by Frances Moore Lapp\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>A quote:<\/p>\n<p>Behind this dramatic, life-saving change is what Adriana calls a \u201cnew social mentality\u201d\u2014the realization that \u201ceveryone in our city benefits if all of us have access to good food, so\u2014like health care or education\u2014quality food for all is a public good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Belo experience shows that a right to food does not necessarily mean more public handouts (although in emergencies, of course, it does.) It can mean redefining the \u201cfree\u201d in \u201cfree market\u201d as the freedom of all to participate. It can mean, as in Belo, building citizen-government partnerships driven by values of inclusion and mutual respect.<\/p>\n<p>And when imagining food as a right of citizenship, please note: No change in human nature is required! Through most of human evolution\u2014except for the last few thousand of roughly 200,000 years\u2014Homo sapiens lived in societies where pervasive sharing of food was the norm. As food sharers, \u201cespecially among unrelated individuals,\u201d humans are unique, writes Michael Gurven, an authority on hunter-gatherer food transfers. Except in times of extreme privation, when some eat, all eat.<\/p>\n<p>Before leaving Belo, Anna and I had time to reflect a bit with Adriana. We wondered whether she realized that her city may be one of the few in the world taking this approach\u2014food as a right of membership in the human family. So I asked, \u201cWhen you began, did you realize how important what you are doing was? How much difference it might make? How rare it is in the entire world?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew we had so much hunger in the world,\u201d Adriana said. \u201cBut what is so upsetting, what I didn\u2019t know when I started this, is it\u2019s so easy. It\u2019s so easy to end it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the &#8220;Daily Good:&#8221; &#8220;The City That Ended Hunger&#8221; by Frances Moore Lapp\u00e9 A quote: Behind this dramatic, life-saving change is what Adriana calls a \u201cnew social mentality\u201d\u2014the realization that \u201ceveryone in our city benefits if all of us have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=4400\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing","category-interesting-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}