Critics saw the convention as erecting property rights over the human right to eat

Evidence

A former ­legal adviser to the State Department most sharply pointed out the lopsidedness of the convention. He wondered ­whether the proposition was not “to secure a commitment from a country that it must be prepared to take food from the mouth of its ­people in order to pay compensation in foreign exchange for property taken in exercise of its eminent domain power.” He asked if this would amount to “an effort to erect ‘property rights’ over the ‘­human right’ to eat.” — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 469

Categorization

• XREF: Foreshadows later debates over structural adjustment, food sovereignty, and the food/rights conflict in trade law. — connects to: Human rights discourse can be mobilised to defend property owners against popular demands — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 4; Friedman argued property rights are the foundation of all human rights — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 324; Neoliberals weaponized human rights language to protect private property and market order — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 76 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberals deployed human rights language to justify property rights and dismantling welfare #corroborates (0.92) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 7
• Neoliberals redeployed human rights to protect investors and property #corroborates (0.90) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 428
• Human rights discourse can be mobilised to defend property owners against popular demands #corroborates (0.88) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 4
• Neoliberals weaponized human rights language to protect private property and market order #corroborates (0.86) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 76
• Friedman argued property rights are the foundation of all human rights #corroborates (0.78) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 324
• Human rights discourse flourished alongside welfare-state retrenchment and anti-revolutionary politics #complicates (0.75) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 8