Source: FEEDSTUFFS, 1/28/19


Another report targeting the modern food system has been released, this time linking the “pandemics” of obesity, malnutrition and climate change into one “global syndemic” that it calls the “greatest threat to human and planetary health." The report from the Lancet Commission on Obesity calls for the establishment of a new global treaty on food systems aimed at limiting the political influence of “Big Food.” It would be a treaty modeled after what is already in place for the control of tobacco.

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