Voice of America
| Apr 3, 2013
Rising meat consumption is putting pressure on the environment worldwide but the US is bucking the trend. American meat consumption has had the longest sustained decline on record in recent years, a drop experts say is more to do with generational...
Euronews
| Feb 25, 2013
Is nothing sacred? The Swedish furniture giant IKEA has been forced to yank its lusted-after meatballs from Czech shelves after food inspectors there discovered the meat morsels were tainted by horse DNA. The batch in question was produced by a si...
Euronews
| Feb 17, 2013
The European Union has backed DNA testing in the wake of the horsemeat scandal. All 27 member states will carry out the tests on meat labelled as beef to look for traces of horse DNA. The examination of some 2,000 samples will start immediately an...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 14, 2013
The horsemeat-sold-as-beef scandal that began in Britain and Ireland now involves 16 European Union countries. Beef products across the EU are to be DNA tested but the affair has badly shaken consumer confidence even in countries where horsemeat i...
Channel 4 News
| Feb 13, 2013
Labor MP Anas Sarwar jokingly asks if answers about Europe's horsemeat scandal will be "all bull" as Prime Minister David Cameron takes questions in the House of Commons. It causes quite a stirrup. The issue is far from funny, however, as official...
Associated Press
| Feb 10, 2013
Bacon has expanded beyond the breakfast plate - now it's the topping on your favorite pastries, and being used as a fashion accessory. The smell of bacon was in the air as thousands converged in Des Moines, Iowa for an increasingly popular festiva...
Channel 4 News
| Feb 8, 2013
Frozen beef lasagne sold by the food manufacturer Findus in the UK has been found to contain horse meat. This follows a similar scandal affecting supermarket burgers a few weeks ago. The UK Food Standards Agency described the discovery as "appalli...
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CCTV News
| Jan 25, 2013
A Beijing grocery store has concocted a genius way of selling produce that's good for the environment. Customers can exchange their recyclable goods and kitchen waste for fruits and vegetables. CCTV News reports on how this groundbreaking program ...
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CCTV News
| Jan 24, 2013
Some might say it's a good problem to have. China went from starvation and hunger issues to wasting massive amounts of food in just a generation. But as CCTV News reports, the government is now taking measures to curb the amount of food that...
Newsy
| Jan 16, 2013
Supermarket chains in the UK and Ireland have been galloping to go on damage control after tests found horse meat in their beef burgers -- up to 29% in one case. Pig DNA was also found in large numbers of processed beef products.
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...global food security, as it is foreseen that the demand for food will increase by 50% over the next 20 years. This increased demand will be prim...
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...of the population who were obese rising from 16.6% in males and 20.6% in females in 1997 to 24.8% in males and 26.0% in females in 2007. This is...
Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is ingested by an organism and assimilated by the organism's cells in an effort to produce energy, maintain life, or stimulate growth.
Historically, people secured food through two methods: hunting and gathering, and agriculture. Today, most of the food energy consumed by the world population is supplied by the food industry.
Food safety and food security are monitored by agencies like the International Association for Food Protection, World Resources Institute, World Food Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization, and International Food Information Council. They address issues such as sustainability, biological diversity, climate change, nutritional economics, population growth, water supply, and access to food.
The right to food is a human right derived from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, recognizing the "right to an adequate standard of living, including adequate food," as well as the "fundamental right to be free from hunger."
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