Essays on Food Bank

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Organizations around the world come together to create products with enhanced nutritional value, to minimize losses, and help millions of people in need of food. The world has enough food to feed everyone, however, the United Nations estimated that today about 800 million people worldwide (approximately one person out of nine) suffer from malnutrition. Most of them live in developing countries, where more than 14% of the population do not get food in the quantities needed to meet the energy needs of the organism (Butler, 2016). For 25 years develops a cooperation of Food Bank Task Force with the ...

Nowadays the problem of poverty and limited resources becomes more and more urgent. The famous Hardin’s essay, “Lifeboat ethics” covers different aspects of this issue and gives strong but often disputable arguments against helping the poor in the worldwide, international sense. The fact that Earth’s resources are limited is undisputable, and Hardin’s metaphor comparing nations of people to lifeboats floating in the limited space of resources seems very neat. In this situation different ethical and moral problems come into play. The main ethical issue in current situation is helping the poor with the limited helping capacity and ...

Seven Questions Answered

1. Garret Hardin uses the metaphor lifeboat to show the diversity that exists in the world today. He uses it to differentiate between the rich and the poor whereby the rich nations are the lifeboats and the poor nations swim around them. Lifeboat ethics differ from spaceship ethics in that lifeboat uses the notion that some nations are superior to others while in a spaceship everyone has equal shares to the resources. 2. Hardin argues that all the floaters are brothers and one cannot discriminate and choose who to help. They also have similar needs, which make it more ...