Permaculture Research Digest

Tuesday 19 December 2017

Industrial food makes us sick (pdf report)

Unravelling the Food-Health Nexus (pdf downloads - full report, exec summary

'An overwhelming case for action' - expert panel identifies unacceptable toll of food and farming systems on human health. Industrial food and farming systems are making people sick in a variety of ways, and are generating staggering human and economic costs - according to a major new report from the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food). Decisive action can be taken on the basis of what we know, the Panel found, but is held back by the unequal power of food system actors to set the terms of debate and to influence policy.

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