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Policies to reduce food insecurity: An ethical imperative
A quarter of U.S. households receive food assistance, yet more than 11% still experience food insecurity annually. We argue that an expansion-oriented approach to food and nutrition assistance policy is an ethical imperative. Drawing on values from the Capability Approach and Social Empathy Model an...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7255147/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32417646 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2020.112943 |
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description | A quarter of U.S. households receive food assistance, yet more than 11% still experience food insecurity annually. We argue that an expansion-oriented approach to food and nutrition assistance policy is an ethical imperative. Drawing on values from the Capability Approach and Social Empathy Model and supported by empirical evidence, we propose an ethical framework characterized by four principles that can be used to assess and inform the development of just food policies. We argue that policies should (1) embrace compassion, (2) create opportunity, (3) consider essential needs, and (4) promote knowledge and empathy. In an applied case, we evaluate current SNAP policy in terms of those principles and offer recommendations to promote justice in the design and implementation of SNAP and other food policies. |
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spelling | pubmed-72551472020-05-28 Policies to reduce food insecurity: An ethical imperative Miller, Daniel P. Thomas, Margaret M.C. Physiol Behav Article A quarter of U.S. households receive food assistance, yet more than 11% still experience food insecurity annually. We argue that an expansion-oriented approach to food and nutrition assistance policy is an ethical imperative. Drawing on values from the Capability Approach and Social Empathy Model and supported by empirical evidence, we propose an ethical framework characterized by four principles that can be used to assess and inform the development of just food policies. We argue that policies should (1) embrace compassion, (2) create opportunity, (3) consider essential needs, and (4) promote knowledge and empathy. In an applied case, we evaluate current SNAP policy in terms of those principles and offer recommendations to promote justice in the design and implementation of SNAP and other food policies. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020-08-01 2020-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7255147/ /pubmed/32417646 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2020.112943 Text en © 2020 Published by Elsevier Inc. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Miller, Daniel P. Thomas, Margaret M.C. Policies to reduce food insecurity: An ethical imperative |
title | Policies to reduce food insecurity: An ethical imperative |
title_full | Policies to reduce food insecurity: An ethical imperative |
title_fullStr | Policies to reduce food insecurity: An ethical imperative |
title_full_unstemmed | Policies to reduce food insecurity: An ethical imperative |
title_short | Policies to reduce food insecurity: An ethical imperative |
title_sort | policies to reduce food insecurity: an ethical imperative |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7255147/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32417646 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2020.112943 |
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