Food needs 'fundamental rethink'

[YankeyMCC]

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A sustainable global food system in the 21st Century needs to be built on a series of "new fundamentals", according to a leading food expert.

Tim Lang warned that the current system, designed in the 1940s, was showing "structural failures", such as "astronomic" environmental costs.
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The UK's Environment Secretary, Hilary Benn, recently set up a Council of Food Policy Advisers in order to address the growing concern of food security and rising prices.


Mr Benn, speaking at the council's launch, warned: "Global food production will need to double just to meet demand.

"We have the knowledge and the technology to do this, as things stand, but the perfect storm of climate change, environmental degradation and water and oil scarcity, threatens our ability to succeed."

Professor Lang, who is a member of the council, offered a suggestion: "We are going to have to get biodiversity into gardens and fields, and then eat it.

"We have to do this rather than saying that biodiversity is what is on the edge of the field or just outside my garden."
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...people, especially in the UK, to reconnect with their food. ....

We all know that waste is everywhere; it is immoral what is happening in the world of food.

"In Europe, 30% of the food grown did not appear on the shelves of the retailers because it was a funny shape or odd colour.
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Professor Lang outlined the challenges facing the global food supply system: "The 21st Century is going to have to produce a new diet for people, more sustainably, and in a way that feeds more people more equitably using less land."
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7795652.stm

[pnorman]

1. K & R!

I can't believe I'm the only one to do so!

pnorman

[tomreedtoon]

2. I recommend Soylent Green.

If that's too much, how about that recipe for Mrs. Lovett's Meat Pies?

[pnorman]

3. Don't stop with Soylent Green

Consider "A Modest Proposal", by Jonathon Swift!

"A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a satirical essay written and published by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift appears to suggest in his essay that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

Bon Apetit!

pnorman