[Oe List ...] Our rights OOPS!

[Ruth Landmann]

>Under the Constitution our rights include life, liberty, and the 
>pursuit of happiness. The right to eat is as basic as it gets. 
>Babies are born knowing how to eat. Every mother (human and other 
>mammals) will do anything and everything in order to provide food 
>for their infants.
>
>Getting beyond a narrow U.S.A. perspective, looking globally at the 
>picture, basic human needs include food, shelter, and companionship. 
>Aren't those needs also rights?
>
>How is the need for food any different from the need for oxygen and water?
>Ruth
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As Randy so kindly pointed out, I messed up. The "rights" of life, 
liberty, and pursuit of happiness are declared in the Declaration of 
Independence. I know that. Duh!
Ruth
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