Pope Says Food Access Is Human Right With Millions Hungry
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Access to food is a basic human right that shouldn’t be obstructed by speculation in financial markets, Pope Francis said.
Humans have a “right to food, right to life and dignified existence,” Francis said today at the United Nations’ Food & Agriculture Organization in Rome, where ministers and officials from more than 170 countries are meeting for a conference on nutrition. Efforts to reduce hunger and malnutrition are facing “obstruction due to the priority of the markets, or preeminence of profits that have reduced foodstuffs to any other commodity,” he said.