Food needs 'fundamental rethink' - Democratic Underground

Dead_Parrot

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Sat Dec-27-08 05:36 PM
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Food needs 'fundamental rethink'

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.

The new approach needed to address key fundamentals like biodiversity, energy, water and urbanisation, he added.
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The latest estimates from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) show that another 40 million people have been pushed into hunger in 2008 as a result of higher food prices.

This brings the overall number of undernourished people in the world to 963 million, compared to 923 million in 2007.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7795652.stm

(What is it with the BBC and one-sentence paragraphs? x( )

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Warpy

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Sat Dec-27-08 05:46 PM
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1. I, too, wish the BBC would learn the difference between a sentence

and a paragraph. However, they're right about rethinking food. I was thinking about that very subject this morning when I had my very rare banana---from Ecuador!

Another good bit on this subject is by Mark Bittman. It's a longish lecture, but well worth the download: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/mark_bittman_on_what_s_wrong_with_what_we_eat.html

His cookbooks are good, too.

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Dead_Parrot

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Sat Dec-27-08 08:55 PM
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3. Thanks, will take a look

Just had a flick through some of his food (preparation) articles, and he seems to be remarkably sane: Lecture bookmarked for later consumption...

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ashling

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Sat Dec-27-08 07:41 PM
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2. Hey, look! It's like, their language.

What.ever .... :shrug:

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