Why not Food and Environment?

When the Declaration of Human Rights was written in 1948, it focused mainly on the issues that were most severe during that time period. For example, this was the time that African Americans were suffering from inequality and women were still in the development stage regarding their rights. Because of this, the Declaration focuses mainly on these personal and communal issues. It fails to mention environment and food because these were not very prominent issues during this time. The lack of mention of food in the Declaration is simply because there were far more pressing and urgent matters that needed to be addressed. Nowadays, world hunger is a huge issue, but I think that back then there were bigger problems/violations of human securities that needed to be addressed. It is a known fact that the world is becoming more and more polluted every day, so pollution has gotten fair worse than it was back in the 40s. Also, global warming is a huge factor today when people back then didn’t even know it existed.