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Human beings are like any other species in the world who need certain things in order for us to be stay alive and survive. Similar to other types of species, humans need nutritious food in order to live a long and healthy life. In Ana Ayala and Benjamin Meiers article A Human Rights Approach to the Health Implications of Food and Nutrition Insecurity, they speak on why food should be a global human right by successfully using pathos and logos which allows for the readers to understand and enjoy the article

Ayala and Meier effectively use pathos and logos within their article by saying things such as “Food and nutrition insecurity continues to pose a serious global challenge, reflecting government shortcomings in meeting international obligations to ensure the availability, accessibility, and quality of food and to ensure the highest attainable standard of health of their peoples” (Ayala, 1). This quote shows good use of ethos because when the reader hears about the government failing to be able to obtain a high amount of nutritious food for their people, it will most likely upset people who are in that bad situation or people who see and know others going through those problems. Not only does this article show good use of pathos, but it also shows some good use of logos. When reading the quote “With global drivers like climate change, urbanization, greater armed conflict, and the globalization of unhealthy diet, particularly in under-resourced countries, food insecurity is rapidly becoming an even greater challenge for those living in poverty” (Ayala, 1), it explained very logical reasons as to why people in poverty are suffering. Due to all these problems such as urbanization and the globalization of an unhealthy diet, people have a less likely chance of obtaining food. Urbanization causes small places to become more urban and similar to cities which makes the prices of everything go up way higher, including food. With all these big problems in the way, people are unable to have the proper accessibility to healthy and nutritious foods that apply to their own proper needs.

In conclusion, this article was very successful in explaining why food should be a human right as well as how it is harder for the government to give people in poverty access to food. However, there were not any signs of ethos being used which would have been useful so I could include credible people who know what they are talking about.

Works Cited

Ayala, Ana, and Benjamin Meier. “A Human Rights Approach to the Health Implications of Food and Nutrition Insecurity.” Public Health Reviews (2107-6952), vol. 38, no. 1, Mar. 2017, pp. 1–22. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1186/s40985-017-0056-5.