Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Orientations
- Part I Poor Health: Social Justice and Mutual Recognition
- Part II Poor Housing: Social Justice and Mutual Understanding
- Part III Poor Food: Social Justice and Mutual Respect
- Chapter Five Unfed Children
- Concluding Remarks
- Chapter Six Law, Interpretation, and Value
- Concluding Remarks: Mutualizing Respect
- Part IV Poor Spirits: Social Justice and Articulacy
Chapter Five - Unfed Children
from Part III - Poor Food: Social Justice and Mutual Respect
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Orientations
- Part I Poor Health: Social Justice and Mutual Recognition
- Part II Poor Housing: Social Justice and Mutual Understanding
- Part III Poor Food: Social Justice and Mutual Respect
- Chapter Five Unfed Children
- Concluding Remarks
- Chapter Six Law, Interpretation, and Value
- Concluding Remarks: Mutualizing Respect
- Part IV Poor Spirits: Social Justice and Articulacy
Summary
“Increasing population and consumption are placing unprecedented demands on agriculture and natural resources. Today, approximately a billion people are chronically malnourished while our agricultural systems are concurrently degrading land, water, biodiversity and climate on a global scale. To meet the world's future food security and sustainability needs, food production must grow substantially while, at the same time, agriculture's environmental footprint must shrink dramatically.”
J.A. Foley 2011In Part Three we take up considerations of social justice with respect especially to the nutrition needs of destitute street children. We then try to understand the sense and significance of these empirical details with the help of several key notions in Ronald Dworkin's philosophical reflections on the nature of law.
Poor Children III: Measures
Having considered difficulties with determining reliably the numbers of destitute children in sections §5 and §11, we do well now to consider the measures that are used to describe their great poverty. We may focus then especially on the destitution of these children with respect to their lack of proper nourishment. But before turning to the empirical details, we need first to reflect on the degree to which the malnutrition of destitute Paris street children can be currently measured in fully reliable ways.
Malnourished Children
Besides very poor or destitute Paris street children being unhealthy and unhoused in the senses we have explored in sections §12 and §14, such children are most often also very poorly nourished.
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- Moments of MutualityRearticulating Social Justice in France and the EU, pp. 77 - 96Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2012