UN General Assembly press release:

Draft resolution XX on the right to food, approved on 24 November by a recorded vote of 180 in favour to 1 against (United States), with no abstentions, would have the Assembly reaffirm that hunger constitutes an outrage and a violation of human dignity, requiring the adoption of urgent measures at the national, regional and international level, for its elimination.

Full vote below.

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Vote on Right to Food

The draft resolution on the right to food (document A/63/430/Add.2) was adopted by a recorded vote of 184 in favour to 1 against, with no abstentions, as follows:

In favour: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia (Federated States of), Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Against: United States.

Abstain: None.

Absent: Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles, Uganda.

"Why do they hate us?" we ask.

The real question we should be asking is: "Why do we hate them?"

Source:Daily Kos

maybe cause they are saying they have a right to our food?

DONT THEY HAVE WAL MARTS???????????????

Anyone who has ever gone hungry for any amount of time should be able to answer this question with out reservation.

Quiet, you response puzzles me, I think the issue was right to food,period. The food we eat comes from many other places. I don't get why america would be against this..

Marking this for my list. 1st thing I will check when I get home tonight. I have to go to work now. Good subject to occupy my mind while I am staring into the microscope at green soldermask all night.

THEY CAN SHOP AT WAL MART LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.............

I agree in principle that no one should go hungry

but the UN always seems to be setting up some kind of extra territorial government for us

does this mean that the UN will be determining where our corn and wheat crops will go? (we export enough to feed about half the rest of the world)

SO BUILD WAL MARTS IN THOSE COUNTRIES.....THE USA DOSENT NEED ANYMORE..........

Geez, I can't answer that question, quiet, since I don't really know how that works in the first place. Another thing to learn, this could get tiring, better stock up on coffee. I can't imagine having to endure what some do in countries I have never been to, but I do know what it's like to go hungry for short periods of time, and I know you can't think straight and you don't have the energy to be productive, which to me is what is most important to have a productive society of any kind. But I don't think you would disagree with that point.

I have been homeless and hungry but I believe the USA feed a lot of Third World Countries poor and we don't need the UN to tell us hunger sucks.I just wish we would focus on our hungry people.It angers me that farmers are payed subsidies not to farm or grow certain things.Lets bring back agriculture and teach our kids to grow food so hunger is a thing of the past.
Much of the causes of hunger overseas is corrupt government officials stealing the supplies.Let the UN address that problem.

that is usually done for reconditioning the soil. crop rotation and all that

sometimes if the soil is nitrogen depleted they'll pay em to grow soybeans

When they ship the food, they should also ship some condoms. Quit having babies you can't feed!

We have young women in this country that could use the same advice unfortunately, in a country that should know better.

it bothers me sometimes how self centred and self righteous americans (in general, no one i'm specifically referring to here) can be. the world doesn't hate you, the world just rolls our eyes, shake our heads and tsk at you people at the times when you display your monumental arrogance then get on with our humble lives onto more important endeavors.

*typical americam response,"you are just jealous of our profound and mindblowing greatness!!" at which point i roll my eyes and move onto another thread*

Ok, we need a standing ovation emoticon!

Jas makes a great point.

Funny, you can only ride the wave for so long. Young people in other countries are acquiring educations in science, math engineering, communications technology and although some kids here in the US are working hard most sit on their fat asses and assume the American lifestyle will always be there for them. We are set back in research by Luddites and other religious nuts who think research equals evil. Meanwhile the world moves on.

We cannot maintain the American standard of living if we do not maintain high educational and scientific standards and if we do not quit bickering amongst ourselves.

Reading, questioning, researching...they are not the evil tools of some anti-social liberal America hating bunch they are the tools of greatness. One can look to our history to see that.

Here's some news if you haven't already got it.

The rest of the world has had a taste of the American dream and they might want it and they might work harder for it than you are will to.

I don't know of any other country that people are sneaking into by the millions

haha Check the numbers

Industries who require technical knowledge in some areas are forced to hire foreign workers.

They aren't sneaking.

They're sneaking in because there are jobs that Americans won't do that pay better than their own country. Many of them sent money home to their families. The
American dream has become the American greed...IMHO.

yanno, Mexico's second biggest income source is American money sent home

their biggest income is from the drug cartels