In a nation that has been enjoying halal meat for years in curries, kebabs and shawarmas, the halal debate has distorted and hijacked the welfare dimension, in order to channel nasty resentment that a minority you don't like is being accommodated.
The ability of households and individuals to access food (one of the key aspects of 'food security') is an important welfare dimension that poses important challenges for objective measurement.
Furthermore, a single score is often calculated for all the welfare dimensions that were measured.
The idea is that citizens might be unequal in wealth, resources, welfare, and other dimensions of their condition, yet be equal in status in a way that enables all to relate as equals.
In other words, the food security measure provides independent, more specific information on this dimension of welfare than the measure that can be inferred from using only income data (Bickel et al. 2000).
Laissez-faire capitalism is even worse for equality than the welfare state along these dimensions.
Therefore, it is clear that, even though they are correlated, food security and poverty are two different dimensions of welfare.
Finally, the weight attributed to the different dimensions of welfare can vary between assessors.
It is a unique indicator of SES in China, especially in early time due to the sharp divide between urban and rural areas in terms of income, health care, quality of education, access to public goods such as housing, sanitation, and other dimensions of welfare [ 34, 35].
Food security is an essential dimension of household welfare and an important subject whether viewed globally, within a nation, a state, or in local communities (Bickel et al. 2000).
Providing public health arguments in defense of particular environmental or educational policies, and recognizing that such policies can have profound effects on health, simply recognizes the complex interweaving of the multiple dimensions of human welfare.
