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2024 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. Inter Alia 1 (2024)

handle is hein.journals/interal2024 and id is 1 raw text is: YALE LAW & POLICY REVIEW INTER ALIA Food Price Narratives Tammi S. Etheridge* INTRODUCTION Food is a necessity that all people need to survive. Moreover, according to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, there is also a legal right to food.' It must be available,2 accessible, and adequate.3 To be deemed accessible, both economic and physical access to food must be guaranteed.4 Economic accessibility means that food must be * Associate Professor, Elon University School of Law. I could not have brought this paper to life without the excellent research assistance, editing, and conversations with my research assistants, Dakota Price and Ana Laura Gonzalez-Coria, my librarian, Lisa Dallessandro, and the staff of the Yale Law & Policy Review. All misjudgments, errors, and omissions are my own. 1. See Off. High Comm'r Hum. Rts., The Right to Adequate Food, U.N. FACT SHEET No. 34, 1, 2 (2010), https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents /Publications/FactSheet34en.pdf [https://perma.cc/RD7Y-CZNE] (The right to food is an inclusive right. It is not simply a right to a minimum ration of calories, proteins, and other specific nutrients. It is a right to all nutritional elements that a person needs to live a healthy and active life, and to the means to access them.). 2. See id. (stating food from natural resources either through the production of food, by cultivating land or animal husbandry, or through other ways of obtaining food, such as fishing, hunting, or gathering is available). Food is also available when it is sold in markets and shops. Id. 3. See id. at 3 (Adequacy means that the food must satisfy dietary needs, taking into account the individual's age, living conditions, health, occupation, sex, etc.). 4. See id. (explaining that physical accessibility, which is outside the scope of this Article, requires access by those who are physically vulnerable, including 1