Stop pigging out and save the planet, Chinese told ahead of Lunar New Year
Thomson Reuters Foundation As Chinese people celebrate the new Year of the Pig this week, environmental campaigners are urging them to eat less pork and help save the planet. China consumes more meat than any other country and accounts for half the world’s consumption of pork, which is used in everything from dumplings and stir-fries […]
Global lawmakers battle over junk food warning labels
Thomson Reuters Foundation Are taxes and bans on advertising unhealthy foods or education more effective in tackling an emerging global obesity crisis? Some 200 lawmakers from 80 countries were sharply divided over how to stem spiralling healthcare costs caused by poor diets at the first global parliamentary summit against hunger and malnutrition, which ended on […]