Big beef with UN
A newly formed beef industry group is condemning a United Nations campaign about the impact of the meat industry on the environment.
The UN will bring decades of experience and expertise on food security, nutrition, hunger and poverty reduction to the table. The three Rome-based food agencies -- FAO, IFAD and WFP -- will coordinate the participation of the UN System under the leadership of the Director-General of FAO. Already 22 UN agencies have submitted proposals for content and events at Expo.
On Friday an agreement on the UN's participation at the 2015 World Expo will be signed by the UN Commissioner-General for Expo 2015 and FAO Assistant Director-General for Forestry, Eduardo Rojas-Briales, and Giuseppe Sala, chief executive officer of Expo 2015.
Expo 2015's official website says it will be an extraordinary universal event displaying tradition, creativity and innovation in the business of food.
"It will bring together many themes that have already been handled by this event in the past, and set them out anew in light of new global possibilities whose common core is the idea that everyone on the planet should have access to food that is healthy, safe and sufficient," it says/
Workshop and debate themes include:
• Improving food quality and security
• Ensuring healthy and high-quality nutrition for all human beings
• Preventing the new epidemics and diseases of our time, including obesity, cardiovascular disease, and cancer
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• Promoting innovation in research, technology, and business practices along the entire food supply chain
• Providing education in proper nutrition and encouraging more healthy lifestyles, especially among children, adolescents, the disabled, and the elderly;
• Enhancing the value of cultural and ethnic heritage as expressed in culinary traditions.
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