Just some thoughts

 I had to read this excerpt for class. The text talks about “the right to food” for all 6.8 billion of us. Do you think all people on earth share an equal right to food? How does that philosophy mesh with some people’s attitudes that we let the free market system operate, we have supply and demand economics at work and that has served us well?
There are several countries that have gone through civil wars just for equal rights amongst everyone and I believe within those rights is the right to food. Now I am not one of those that thinks that people should be given food for free or spoon feed things, nor do I believe that people should go around and just be taking food from others and stealing and pillaging. I always think back to the studies I have been taught of those who use to grow their food to provide for themselves and their families and not only eat what they have grown and raised, but also traded those goods for other necessitates they feel them need to survive as well. That is how I feel, I do not like that a business man that has never even grown anything in his life gets to beside who gets to eat his product based on the price he places the good at. For some people it is hard to either get a job or keep a job, especially in this economy.
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"Will tourist someday stare mystified at rusting hulks of New York's skyscrapers, much as we stare today at the jungle-overgrown ruins of Maya cities?"(Louv, p.20). This quote really jumped out at me because I have been to ruins of teh Mayans and stood on one and just looked at the different ruins and how they were all beaten up and over taken by growth, so I was able to relate to the "tourist" that the author spoke of. It makes you think of the fact the you think this will never happen to us we are to advanced for that to happen to us, but I am sure that is exactly what the Mayans thought. We always say that we learn from others mistakes but we have ruins here in the United States that are only getting older. Could this happen to us and we are not even ready for it.