SB628 declares that “it is the established policy of this state that every human being has the right to access sufficient affordable and healthy food,” and requires “all relevant state agencies to consider this state policy…pertinent to the distribution of sufficient food.”
The Senate passed SB628 on September 14, 2023, by a vote of 36 to 3. We have assigned minuses to the ayes because there exists no “right to access sufficient affordable and healthy food” apart from a person earning it themselves or having received it privately, voluntarily, or charitably from someone else. Importantly, the U.S. Constitution already protects our unalienable rights to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” which provides every individual American with the opportunity and dignity to feed both themselves and their family as expected—by meeting their own needs, through their own efforts, and using their own resources. Hence, California has absolutely no business promising “food security” to any of its residents, particularly those who have little or no tax liability, by means of “distribution of sufficient food” at the expense of other hard-working citizens. State legislators must firmly reject the notion of “food security,” which the United Nations, as part of its Agenda 2030 “Zero Hunger” initiative, describes as a “precondition for the full enjoyment of the right to food,” based on Article 25 of the anti-constitutional and socialist Universal Declaration of Human Rights.